MEETINGS FOR 2016-2017 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COLOUR IN FILM

Monday to Wednesday 27 - 29 March 2017 BFI Southbank and Friends House, London

TICKETS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT

Colour in Film is an unique international event intended to foster and stimulate the interaction between the two vibrant, but still separate, colour film restoration and colour science circles.

The Second International Conference, Colour in Film will take place from 27-29 March, 2017 at BFI Southbank and Friends House, London.

Colour in Film is aimed at everyone interested in colour in cinema, colour in cultural heritage, colour reproduction and restoration, and colour perception, whether a film restorer, archivist, historian, enthusiast, or a colour scientist.

The event is co-organised by the Colour Group GB (http://colour.org.uk/) and HTW – University of Applied Sciences Berlin (http://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Community/Supporters-HTW.html and http://krg.htw- berlin.de/files/Stg/KR/Bachelor/KRG_Audiovisuelles_und_Fotografisches_Kulturgut- Moderne_Medien_En.pdf.pdf), in cooperation with ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors (University of Zurich) (http://filmcolors.org/2015/06/15/erc/) The British Film Institute (BFI), and Eastman Revolution and British Cinema, 1955-85 (University of Bristol).

The 2017 Colour in Film Conference will cover the entire breadth of colour in moving images, from early (pre)cinema's chromolithographic printing through the applied colours of tinting, toning and their Desmetcolor rendition, from chromogenic Agfacolor and Eastmancolor through the video- and film-based look of the golden age of British colour television and up to modern, current grading in the digital domain.

The conference will begin with an afternoon of screenings in the beautiful NFT3 theatre at BFI Southbank on March 27, followed by a full day of symposium sessions in Friends House, Euston Road, London, where we will conclude on March 29 with Sarah Street's project workshop on the Eastmancolor revolution.

For further information, please contact Dr. Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, Vice Chair of the Colour Group ([email protected]), or Dr. Ulrich Ruedel, Professor for Conservation and Restoration of Modern Media at HTW Berlin ([email protected])

Programme: DAY ONE (27th March) - NFT3, BFI, Southbank Once again the organisers of the conference are pleased to announce that the English dramatist, composer and author, Neil Brand, will accompany a number of screenings. He is a renowned expert and regular silent film accompanist at London's National Film Theatre. Brand has acted and written plays for the BBC and most recently has composed the scores for two newly restored films from the 1920s: The Wrecker and Anthony Asquith's Underground. His book, Dramatic Notes, investigates the art of composing narrative music for the cinema, theatre, radio and television. (www.neilbrand.com)

12:00 hrs REGISTRATION BFI Southbank Foyer.

Opening of the Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, Colour Group (GB) and Prof Ulrich Rűdel, Hochschule für Technik 13.00 hrs Conference und Wirtschaft, Berlin

SCREENINGS

1 Historical Film 13.05 hrs Colours - Restoration Prof Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich, ERC Advanced Grant Film Colors Works in Progress

2 The Boy who Prof Sarah Street, Bristol, Eastman Revolution and British Cinema, 1955-85 and Kieron Webb, 13.20 hrs Turned Yellow Film Conservation Manager, BFI National Archive

3 Antarctic 14.30 hrs Dr Elizabeth Watkins, University of Leeds Expeditions

15.00 hrs BREAK

4 Agfacolor 15.50 hrs Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW, Berlin and Michaela Mertova, Czech Film Archive, Prague Animation

5 Original Tinting: 15.30 hrs Jeanne Pommeau, Czech Film Archive, Prague České hrady a zámky

15.55 hrs 6 TBA Tom Vincent, Aardman Animations

16.05 hrs BREAK

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Anke Mebold, Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Filmarchiv Chromolithographic 16.20 hrs Loops: Digital Restoration and Aspects of Presentation

17.10 hrs Concluding remarks Concluding remarks Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW, and Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, CG(GB)

17.15 hrs BREAK

EARLY PUBLIC SCREENING EVENT - tickets are required for this - see below

Public early screening event accompanied by Neil Brand. Introduction and concluding remarks BEHIND THE by Robert Byrne, Film Restorer and President of the SF Silent Film and Bryony Dixon, BFI National 18.15 hrs DOOR Archive, Silent Film Curator. NB TICKETS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONFERENCE PRICE AND MUST BE OBTAINED FROM BFI - SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE

DAY TWO (28th March) – George Fox Room, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ

Opening and introduction to the second conference 09.00 hrs Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW CG(GB) day

Introduced by Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW KEYNOTE SPEAKER Charles Fairall CMgr, IEng, FCMI, MIET, Head of Conservation, BFI 09.05 hrs This Room is Surrounded by Film! National Archive, and Steve Bryant, Television Archivist

09.45 hrs COFFEE

Session ONE Chaired by Prof Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich, ERC 09.45 hrs Film Colours Advanced Grant Film Colors

Chromolithographic Loops: History and 10.00 hrs Lea- Aïmee Frankenbach, MA Student at HTW Preservation

Anke Mebold, Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Filmarchiv and 10.15 hrs Chromolithographic Loops Lea- Aïmee Frankenbach, MA Student at HTW

Still in the Script? Questions of authenticity and 10.25 hrs Dr Elizabeth Watkins University of Leeds performance in the restoration of early colour film

10.55 hrs BREAK

Session TWO Chaired by Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW, Berlin, Conservation and 11.05 hrs History and Restoration Restoration of Modern Media

11.10 hrs Colour of Clay Tom Vincent, Aardman Animations

Thilo Gottschling, Head of Film Restoration & Archiving, ARRI Novel Scanning Technologies for Historical Film 11.40 hrs Film & TV Services, Munich and Colours David Bermbach, Project Manager, Arri, Munich

12.30 hrs LUNCH

Session THREE 13.30 hrs Chaired by Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge Colour, Science and Optical Illusions

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 13.30 hrs Indigenous Colour: The Quest to Make Australia’s Prof Kathryn Millard, Macquarie University, Sydney First Colour Feature

Dr Giorgio Trumpy University of Zurich, imaging scientist, ERC 14.15 hrs Spectral analysis of historical film images Advanced Grant Film Colors

14.45 hrs TEA BREAK

Prof Andrew Stockman Steers Chair of Investigative Eye Research,e COLOUR GROUP KEYNOTE SPEAKER 15.10 hrs UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology, Honorary Consultant at Moorfields Colour & Visual Illusions Eye Hospital Round Table – Q & A 16.00 hrs Chaired by Prof Ulrich Rűdel Speakers from days one and two

Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW, and 16.45 hrs Concluding remarks Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, CG(GB)

DAY THREE (29h March) – George Fox Room, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ Opening and introduction to Day 09.00 hrs Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, CG(GB) Three

WORKSHOP Chaired by Prof Sarah Street, University of Bristol, Eastman Revolution and British 09.05 hrs The Eastmancolor Revolution: Cinema, 1955-85 History, Themes and Context

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Installing Eastman: Early Dr Heather Heckman University of South Carolina, Director of Moving Image 09.35 hrs Implementations of Eastman Color in Research Collections US Film Laboratorie

10.20 hrs COFFEE BREAK

Perverting the system : Peeping 10.45 hrs Kirsty Sinclair Dootson PhD Student , Yale University, USA Tom and Eastmancolor

'People prefer colour': the Dr Laura Mayne University of York, Post-doctoral Researcher wholesale transition from black and 11.15 hrs white to colour in 1960s British Cinema

Colour film and cinema 11.40 hrs Dr Richard Farmer University of UEA, Post-doctoral Researcher advertising

Led by Massimo Moretti Studio Canal, Archival specialist and Kieron Webb, Film 12.10 hrs Round Table Conservation Manager, BFI National Archive

Concluding remarks; Prof Ulrich Rűdel, HTW, and 13.00 hrs introduction to the 2018 Conference Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, CG(GB)

A PDF version of the program is available to download. (111 kb)

Venue: BFI Southbank and George Fox Room, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ

Time: Varies by day - see Programme

Tickets: There are 12 ticket classes to the Conference: determine which type of ticket you require from the table below, then click the orange button and buy your ticket(s) using the secure PayPal system. NOTE: if you also wish to see the film Behind the Door on Day One, you will need a ticket which you can purchase at the same time as your Conference ticket - your Conference ticket does NOT include this screening. PLEASE NOTE: You do not need a PayPal account to use this ticket purchase system but may sign on as a guest and use any of the popular credit or debit cards shown to make your purchase. You will be sent an email receipt which tells you how to obtain your ticket(s).

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All students will get a year's free membership of the Colour Group (GB) on production of a valid student card. At the conference non-members can take a reduced membership of £15 rather than £20. Ticketsmay be bought on the day but will attract additional £20

Tickets for the screening on Day One of Behind the Door must now be purchased from the with this link BFI.