ABSTRACT
Film restoration is a huge career opportunity for those who become infected with the love and devotion to not only saving classic film from being lost, but restore it back to its original glory. Except for the fact that very few crews actually edit with film anymore, the technique and discipline of exacting attention to detail has not changed a bit. From the moment daily film and mag stripe transfers arrive from the laboratory and sound transfer, to the moment when the edge code number is applied to both picture and track after running the dailies with the director and picture editor, is the most critical time for the regimentation and precision that the film endures. The film arrives, and the picture assistant and apprentice swing into action, racing to sync up all daily footage in time for that evening's screening. The code book becomes the bible for the balance of the postproduction process.
