Scan2screen

Scan2Screen is a radically different multispectral digitization workflow for historical color films. It consists of a multispectral scanner and corresponding software for image processing, all of which are based on more than a decade of scientific research into film digitization and historical film colors by Dr. Barbara Flueckiger, founder of the Timeline of Historical Film Colors, Dr. Giorgio Trumpy, Lutz Garmsen, Dr. David Pfluger, Martin Weiss. Currently Scan2Screen has headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland (Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH), and in Palo Alto, California, USA (Scan2Screen US LLC). Scan2Screen offers the following services: – Consulting – Digitization and / or restoration of historical color films – Application of a consistently automated and standardized approach that takes into account the main requirements of transparency, documentation and reversibility according to core requirements of restoration ethics and can react with maximum flexibility to heterogeneous demands from different archiving strategies – Multispectral, versatile film scanner, fully modular to adjust to future technological innovations and standards – Fully automated workflows including color management and color reconstruction – Production of digital assets for the distribution and long-term preservation of digital copies including context information – Semantic indexing of films for integration into metadata management and asset management according to international standards – Licensing of hardware and software – Curation of film restoration projects – Physical measurements, colorimetry, and documentation of film stocks – Identification of historical color film stocks