Keywords

• Only since the Eighties of the last century
• in Italy filmhas been institutionally considered as a cultural
• rather than a commercial item. So it has been given a systematic
• academic and ethical disposal to the conservation and restoration practices. The introduction of the numeric information among the images systemallows awide flexibility of action on images
• although it is bound to numeric encoding and decoding systems. A case study for the digital processes is a restoration project planned on Ballet mécanique
• cubist painter Fernand Léger's masterpiece of the European Twenties Avant-garde
• that the Eye Filminstitut decided to restore in a unique coloured copy