embracing authentic film colors, powered by science
a radically different approach to the digitization of
historical color films and photographs
More Color Information – More Flexibility – More Transparency
Digitization – consulting – Curation
Multispectral Scanning
for authentic film colors
THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL (USA 1921, Cecil B. DeMille). Courtesy Library of Congress. Tinted nitrate print.
Voices – What our Customers and Experts Say
“If you build it, they will come!”
“The last few years must have been an incredible journey. What the aforementioned trinity has come up with is not only a bespoke versatile, multispectral scanner, but also a proposal for rethinking what a scanner—and scanning—is.”
Dr Claudy Op den Kamp, Principal Academic in Film, Bournemouth University
“I’ve never seen such fantastic film colors. You can be very proud!”
Prof. Dr. C.N. Brinckmann, Film Scholar and Color Expert
” I wish each movie could go through this incredibly authentic digitalization process. For all who love film colors, it is an absolut must.”
Ursula Puerrer, Co-director of FLAMING EARS
“Watching the multi-spectral scans of monochrome film prints at the Academy Museum’s ‘Color in Motion’ exhibition is a transcendent experience. These exquisitely vibrant digitizations allow the artistry of century-old images to feel fully present. The brilliance of early color cinema is no longer obscured by time.”
Steven Latty, Colorist, Bunte Farben
“‘I don’t think anything like that has ever been seen in a museum or a theater,’ Niebel said. ‘For the first time, we have color-authentic film clips. It creates this really immersive, kaleidoscopic color experience.’”
Jessica Niebel, Senior Curator, Academy Museum, in Variety
“Bless the team that restored this film from very limited remaining material so that I could have my mind totally blown away by this hypersaturated lesbian sci-fi anarchic-apocalyptic world.”
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Scan2Screen’s multispectral scans featured in the catalogue for the Color in Motion exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Details of Len Lye’s hand-colored test film for COLOUR FLIGHT (GBR 1937) during Scan2Screen’s multispectral scanning at the BFI National Archive
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Scan2Screen Team
Dr. Barbara Flueckiger
CEO Scan2Screen US LLC and founding member Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Professor and award winning film scholar with a technical career in film production. Founder and curator of the Timeline of Historical Film Colors.
E-Mail: flueckiger@scan2screen.com
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Dr. Giorgio Trumpy
Imaging scientist, founding member Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Professor, expert in modeling material appearance for heritage conservation
E-mail: trumpy@scan2screen.com
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Lutz Garmsen
Hardware and systems engineering, founding member Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Filmmaker, media artist, apparatus manufacturer, cameraman and animator
E-mail: garmsen@scan2screen.com
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Dr. David Pfluger
Film restorer, CEO Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Media preservation, digitization and digital conservation specialist
E-mail: pfluger@scan2screen.com
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Julius Muschaweck
Physicist, CEO JMO GmbH, founding member Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Optics and illumination specialist
E-mail: muschaweck@scan2screen.com
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Martin Weiss
Film scanning, IT, founding member Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Audiovisual preservation specialist, researcher, cameraman
E-mail: weiss@scan2screen.com
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Dr. Natalie Snoyman
Archivist, film historian, team member Scan2Screen US LLC
Specialist in research, project management, curation, and metadata and digitization standards
Email: snoyman@scan2screen.com
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Nicholas Camardo
Customer relations / project management, team member Scan2Screen US LLC
Specialist in project management, metadata and digitization standards, digital repository and asset management.
Email: camardo@scan2screen.com
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Bryan Burns
Film scan operator
Specialist in digital film preservation, restoration, and color correction
E-Mail: burns@scan2screen.com
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Bob Krijger
Electronics engineer, team member Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH
Specialist in electronics development, audio visual media enthusiast, film collector/archivist
E-Mail: krijger@scan2screen.com
David LeHoty
Applied color science engineer, former team member Scan2Screen US LLC
Experienced in D-cinema and phone displays, color calibration, color space conversion, and color appearance and difference
E-Mail: lehoty@scan2screen.com
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Awards
2019 JTS Technical Award from the CCAAA “for extraordinary contributions to the
technology of the audiovisual archiving field” ,
2022 James A. Lindner Archival Technology medal “In recognition of her outstanding research focused on the digitization and restoration of archival color films” from the
Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers in Hollywood.
2023 Turner Medal from the Colour Group (GB) in London ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the field of colour in film”.
Publications
A selection of our publications related to Scan2Screen’s innovation:
Flueckiger, Barbara; Trumpy, Giorgio; Garmsen, Lutz; Pfluger, David; Weiss, Martin; Muschaweck, Julius (2025): The Case for Multi-spectral Scanning of Historical Colour Films. In: Journal of Film Preservation, 112. pp. 68–80, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/277532/ one year of embargo, see instant access on Calameo https://www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00091854063f747f857c4).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Garmsen, Lutz; Pfluger, David; LeHoty, David; Flueckiger, Barbara (2025): Style Transfer in Advanced Film Digitization and Rendering Workflows. In: Colour Photography and Film. Conference Proceedings. pp. 137–143, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/274848/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Hardeberg, Jon Y.; George, Sony; Flueckiger, Barbara (2021): Multispectral Capture of Film Colors with LEDs. In: Colour and Colorimetry Multidisciplinary Contributions. Associazione Italiana Colore. pp. 195–198, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/217066/).
Flueckiger, Barbara; Daugaard, Noemi; Stutz, Olivia Kristina (2021): Shattered Provenance in the Digitization of Early Color Films. In: Joanne Bernardi, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Tami Williams and Joshua Yumibe (eds.): Provenance and Early Cinema. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 80–90, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/203288/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Chatterjee, Sreya; Ruedel, Ulrich; Flueckiger, Barbara (2021): A Material Investigation of Color Film Technology Through the Koshofer Collection. In: Proceedings of the International Colour Association (AIC) Conference 2021. International Colour Association. pp. 1329–1334, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/217065/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Hardeberg, Jon Y.; George, Sony; Flueckiger, Barbara (2021): A Multispectral Design for a New Generation of Film Scanners. In: Proc. SPIE 11784, Optics for Arts, Architecture, and Archaeology VIII, 117840Z (8 July 2021). SPIE Optical Metrology, Munich (DE) – online, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/205361/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Flueckiger, Barbara (2019): Chromatic Callier Effect and its Repercussions on the Digitization of Early Film Colors. In: Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 63,1, Jan. pp. 10506-1–11, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/168857/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Flueckiger, Barbara (2018): Dye Purification. An Image-processing Technique for the Digital Restoration of Chromogenic Film. In: 2018 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium (CVCS). pp. 1–5, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/158941/).
Flueckiger, Barbara; Pfluger, David; Trumpy, Giorgio; Croci, Simone; Aydın, Tunç; Smolic, Aljoscha (2018): Investigation of Film Material–Scanner Interaction. Zurich (CH): University of Zurich, University of Basel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Disney Research Zurich, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151114/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Diecke, Josephine; Gschwind, Rudolf; Flueckiger, Barbara (2018): Cyber-Digitization. Pushing the Borders of Film Restoration’s Ethics. In: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts : EVA 2018 Berlin, 7-9 November 2018. pp. 190–195, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/158944/).
Trumpy, Giorgio; Flueckiger, Barbara (2015): Light Source Criteria for Digitizing Color Films. In: 2015 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium (CVCS). pp. 1–5, (= https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7274894).
Flueckiger, Barbara (2015): Color Analysis for the Digital Restoration of DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI. In: Joshua Yumibe (ed.): The Moving Image, 15,1. pp. 22–43, (= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/117489/).
Flueckiger, Barbara (2012): Material Properties of Historical Film in the Digital Age. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, 1,2. pp. 135–153, (= https://necsus-ejms.org/material-properties-of-historical-film-in-the-digital-age/).
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