4K Restoration/1955/Pather Panchali

2015 Criterion Restoration

• in partnership with The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
• "produced largely from original camera negative that was recently discovered after being damaged in a fire in London."
• "physical restoration at Cineteca Bologna in Italy"
• "scanned at 4K and digitally restored at the Criterion Collection’s facility in New York, a process that took six months."
• "“We were able to salvage 50- to 60-percent of the original camera negative for the first two films, although the fire had caused massive shrinkage and stabilization problems,” recalled Head Restoration Artist Phoebe Harmon"
• Davide Pozzi, Director - L’Immagine Ritrovata

Other links

• white gloves handling neg
• The long road to restoration for Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy
• How film restorers brought The Apu Trilogy back to life

Purchase on Amazon

• Blu-ray