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David Shepard report |
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Immediately after the conferring of the Oscar for lifetime achievement on Satyajit Ray, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPASA) approved grants to cover expenses for the actual examination on site of as many original negatives and other prime reprint of the Ray classics as practicable. David H. Shepard, an international specialist in film preservation, volunteered to spend up to three weeks in India evaluating the condition of the films. |
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Sikkim : Lost and Found |
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This is the story of a transatlantic search, spanning three continents, for a missing film. It's a film by Satyajit Ray --- one that has never shown in India, courtesy the ban imposed on it by the Union Government. The world lost track of Sikkim , the Ray documentary made at the request of the Chogyal, when the king's American wife Hope Cook left the Himalayan kingdom to go back to New York, never to return. |
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Restoration of Ray's "Seemabaddha"
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Beverly Hills, CA, August 9 2001 - The restoration of Satyajit Ray's "Seemabaddha"
(1971) has been completed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Film Archive, in conjunction with the Satyajit Ray Society in Calcutta, India. This is the eleventh Ray title to be restored as part of an Academy program dedicated to insuring the preservation and restoration of as much as possible of the output of the master filmmaker's forty-year career. |
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Paper Preservation
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During January 2002 I spent four weeks working in Kolkata (Calcutta) on a preservation project centred around this collection of paper-based materials associated with the artist and film-maker Satyajit Ray. My involvement with the project began in 1995 when I visited the Ray family home where the archive is situated and did an initial survey of the paper-based materials. On my return to England I wrote a report listing an action plan and a proposed budget for the conservation materials required. In 1995 I had only seen a small portion of the collection and so had only been able to carry out a sample survey of a small cross-section of the total number of items. Follow-up visits in 1996 and 1997 helped to formulate plans for a future project and to draw up a budget with a view to raising funds. |
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