CULTURAS IN VITRO
Restoring Movies for the Net: A projected explosion of broadcasting via broadband Internet connections will likely lead to a hunger for content that can only be satisfied by raiding film archives. Unfortunately, some of this material was created up to a century ago and is now damaged. Traditional restoration techniques are slow and expensive, but a new movie restoration project, dubbed PICASSO, is building the first real-time system for film restoration. The project plans to repair material that's faded, jerky or scratched, has ingrained dirt or even contaminated with biological growth.