Ellipathayam.
Cecilia Cenciarelli, who as a part of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna has been working with the World Cinema Project since its inception in 2007, explained how the restoration of
Kummatty worked.
Since there is no surviving negative of the film, “we used the best known surviving elements, two positive 35mm prints (one of which with printed subtitles)”, Cenciarelli said. “They certainly both showed signs of time and fragility, they were scratched and extremely dirty. Some portions were affected by mould. The one print we used as the main element has a vertical green line throughout three reels of the film that took hundreds of hours in manual work to remove.”