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The so-called Desmet Method (also known as Desmetcolor) is a method for restoring the colours of early silent films, which had originally been subjected to the processes of either: * Film tinting – a process that suffuses the entire image a single colour * Toning – a process that colours only the dark parts of the image * A combination of the two It was developed by Noël Desmet, a film archivist and restorer working for the ''Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique'' in Brussels, Belgium. ==Background== Before the 1960s, early coloured films were almost without exception preserved on black and white film and the colours, if recorded at all, only noted in writing. These actions have unfortunately cost many subsequent restorations dearly.〔Mark-Paul Meyer, Paul Read (eds.) (2000), ''Restoration of Motion Picture Film'', Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, p. 275 & 287〕 Fortunately, however, there are a number of different methods for restoring early coloured films today, each of which nonetheless comes with its own inherent strengths and weaknesses. The most obvious, in a way the most straightforward (though it still requires a great deal of skill and accuracy in order to be done successfully), and still the most common method today is that of copying the original coloured print ‘as is’ onto modern Eastman colour inter-negative film. From the developed inter-negative then a new colour positive print can be struck. If set up and executed correctly, the colours in the new positive print can resemble very closely the colours in the original print but only as they survive today. Therefore, whatever fading, decomposition and/or other changes, which may have occurred to the colours down through the years, will also be copied along with them. Unfortunately, beyond the possibility to make very slight improvements to the saturation this method offers little in the way of any colour restoration. There are, meanwhile, other notable disadvantages, not least the use of modern colour film stock. Colour film is both expensive and has questionable archival permanence, as modern colour dyes are known to fade in time.〔Mark-Paul Meyer, Paul Read (eds.) (2000), ''Restoration of Motion Picture Film'', Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, p. 287〕 It was largely as a result of these problems that Noël Desmet, starting in the 1960s, developed his own flashing method for restoring silent films, which had originally been coloured either by the process of tinting or toning (or both). With Desmet’s method, the original colour print is first copied onto modern, panchromatic black and white inter-negative film, rather than colour film.〔Mark-Paul Meyer, Paul Read (eds.) (2000), ''Restoration of Motion Picture Film'', Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, p. 289〕 The colours are then applied later during production of the positive print. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Desmet method」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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