KIEV, DECEMBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. A digital restoration laboratory has opened at the Dovzhenko Film Studio. Masterpieces by such renowned firectors as Dovzhenko and Parajanov will soon get higher quality, analitika.at.ua reports. After being scanned, films undergo full digital restoration by digital image processing. Computer programs are used to improve their color and remove dust and scratches. There are about 1,000 films in the collection of the Dovzhenko studio, and the new laboratory will allow restoring 3 dozen films a year. The digital restoration of a film takes about two months. The process is quite expensive: the cost of one film is 45 thousand dollars. The film studio plans to release discs of the restored films.

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