The Hop-Pickers

The goal of digital restoration was to make the available in a form similar to how it could have been seen and heard by an audience at the time when it was first released in 1964. We choose to use the vision with image ratio of 1:2,55 and a four-track magnetic soundtrack, which only adequately equipped cinemas were able to green at the time. As a result, various features that originate from a shooting of the film or its laboratory processing have been preserved and are evidence of the technologies and creative approaches of the time.

The source of the digitization were film materials stored in Národní filmový archiv, Prague. The primary sound ressource was a transfer of four-track magnetic soundtrac, which was done by Filmexport Ltd. During the film’s digitazation in 2003. Missing parts were substituted from a distribution print with optical soundtrack.

The restoration was done by the Hungarian Filmlab in Budapest, under the supervision of Národní filmový archiv, Prague, in 2016.

Supported by grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and co-financed the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Project partners were the National Library of Norway and CESNET.