Author Peter Rist

It has become a tradition for the annual festival of rediscovered and restored films, Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy to focus one of its “Time Machine” programs on films from 100 years ago. With so many ...

In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the history of my own film viewing experiences of cellulose nitrate colour prints. We now move to black and white. The true glory of silver nitrate is best appreciated ...

The rationale behind the Nitrate Picture Show is that film projection is the goal of film preservation. It is only in a theatre that film curators deliver their ultimate message, as other curators do when artwo...