Second International Conference
Colour in Film

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.

For further information, please contact Dr. Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, Vice Chair of the Colour Group (etan711talktalk.net), or Dr. Ulrich Ruedel, Professor for Conservation and Restoration of Modern Media at HTW Berlin (ruedelhtw-berlin.de)


PROGRAMME
DAY ONE (27th March)
NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Rd

12:00 hrs
REGISTRATION- BFI Southbank Foyer.

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

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

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

14.30 hrs
Antarctic Expeditions
Dr Elizabeth Watkins, University of Leeds

15.00 hrs - BREAK

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

15.30 hrs
Original Tinting: ?eské hrady a zámky - Jeanne Pommeau, Czech Film Archive, Prague

15.55 hrs
TBA - Tom Vincent, Aardman Animations

16.05 hrs - BREAK

16.20 hrs
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chromolithographic Loops: Digital Restoration and Aspects of Presentation
Anke Mebold, Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Filmarchiv
 
17.10 hrs
Concluding remarks
Concluding remarks Prof Ulrich Ruedel, HTW, and Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, CG(GB)

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

18.15 hrs
BEHIND THE DOOR
Public early screening event accompanied by Neil Brand. Introduction and concluding remarks by Robert Byrne, Film Restorer and President of the SF Silent Film and Bryony Dixon, BFI National Archive, Silent Film Curator.


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

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

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

09.45 hrs - COFFEE


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

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

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

10.55 hrs - BREAK


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

11.10 hrs
Colour of Clay
Tom Vincent, Aardman Animations

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

12.30 hrs - LUNCH


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

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

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

14.45 hrs - TEA BREAK

15.10 hrs
COLOUR GROUP KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Colour & Visual Illusions
Prof Andrew Stockman Steers Chair of Investigative Eye Research,e UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology, Honorary Consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital

16.00 hrs
Round Table – Q & A
Speakers from days one and two
Chaired by Prof Ulrich Ruedel

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


DAY THREE (29h March)
George Fox Room, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ

09.00 hrs
Opening and introduction to Day Three
Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, CG(GB)

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

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

10.20 hrs - COFFEE BREAK

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

11.15 hrs
'People prefer colour': the wholesale transition from black and white to colour in 1960s British Cinema
Dr Laura Mayne University of York, Post-doctoral Researcher
 
11.40 hrs
Colour film and cinema advertising
Dr Richard Farmer University of UEA, Post-doctoral Researcher

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

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

A PDF version of the program is available to download. (111 kb) http://www.colour.org.uk/meetingMarch17.php


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.