Duplication of an early coloured film.
Restoration of coloured monochrome films was, until only a few years ago, carried out almost exclusively by conventional black and white duplication and the colours were simply recorded in writing. Little attempt was made to reproduce the original colours for archival storage or for display. Those colour restorations that were attempted were carried out by making a colour internegative on whatever the current Eastman Colour Internegative Film was available. The earliest attempts were usually poor and of too high a contrast but today a very close visual match to the archive original can be achieved. The resulting colour print represents the colours left in the film today after whatever fading has occurred.