ORGANIZERS


Regione Autonoma
Valle d'Aosta



Comune di Valtournenche

Associazione Culturale
Promocinema

SPECIAL EVENTS

RESTORATION OF TRA I FIGLI DEL CIELO (3rd and 4th part), Venanzio Sella, 1925, 30', 35mm

Restoration of the third and forth part of documentary Tra i figli del cielo, directed by Venanzio Sella. Descendant of Sella' s contractors and bankers big family, Venanzio Sella (1900-1990), councilor and vice president of Banca Sella, member of Accademia di Agricoltura of Turin, commendatore of Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro, expert of history and tradtions of the area around the city of Biella, went to China in 1925 in a particular period of political and social transition. In this curious and rich of houmor documentary he offers a sensitive testimony of historical and anthropological interest. Very spectacular images: from the Sky Temple to the Big Walll ones. National première of the restored print. The restoration has been carried out by the Turin Museo Nazionale del Cinema.

The entire restoration of Venanzio Sella's documentary Tra i figli del cielo started in Spring 2000 with the recovery of the first and the second part and finished, after finding the third and forth part, in Summer 2002. The four original rolls in flammable 35mm are long respectively meters 467, 429, 466 and 408 and were found in good state of conservation with few signs of wear. But the support was rather dry and with a shrinking of 3% . In the laboratory Mr.Bruno Favro has worked to obtain a new positive copy on not flammable polyester support. At the beginning the original copy has been washed with a solvent to remove the dirty parts; then, using a "step one" optical printing press, it has been obtained a low-contrast negative contra-type with the technic of under liquid printing permitting the elimination of the lines presented on the support. After the negative exposure it has been obtained the final print on positive polyester support. The new print has been outpoured with digital telecinema on video BetaSp support.

Technical notes:
Total lenght of the restored print: m. 1770
Kodak Film 2234 (fine grain duplicating negative film )
Kodak Film 5302 (fine grain release positive film)
Digital Telecinema Rank Cintel 422 ( NovaRolfilm laboratory)

Ivano Bellino, Turin Museo Nazionale del Cinema