It took nearly 2 years to complete the scanning and enhancement combined because certain scenes had to be repeatedly rescanned frame by frame or at a very slow scan speed due to the image moving out of frame every time the irreparable film tears bump through the scanner’s sprockets. The enhancement of the picture took more than 500 hours to adjust the color and minimize impairments such as flicker, dirt, specks, shallow scratches, and watermarks.
The entire scanning and restoration process took nearly 2 years to complete because some scenes had to be meticulously rescan frame by frame or at a very slow speed due to the film tearing through the scanner's mechanism. The picture enhancement phase alone lasted over 500 hours to fine-tune the color and eliminate defects like flicker, dirt, specks, scratches, and watermarks.