Find out how Colorworks, Sony Pictures’ digital intermediate facility, completed a lovingly painstaking 4K restoration of Frank Capra’s 1934 comedy, It Happened One Night.

The final restored files were graded in 4K at Colorworks on the Baselight colour grading system.

Colorworks senior colorist Scott Ostrowsky notes that the Baselight system that he used to grade the film has sophisticated tools that allow him to apply subtle, highly nuanced adjustments. “This film has a soft, shadowy elegant look and we wanted to be sure to capture that without stepping on the image,” he says. “You don’t want to crush the blacks.”

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