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When classic movies are re-released, they’re often advertised as being “restored”. What does this mean, and how do they do this? Universal, for example, is marking its 100th anniversary this year and has been restoring films since the 1990s. Technology is available today that allows film studios to go back to older movies and remove any small imperfections in the original film, not to detract from the original vision of the filmmakers but to make these imperfections less distracting and visible. Using the film’s original camera negative, every single frame of a film is turned into a digital frame that is three times the resolution of the original and a series of talented artists deal with a series of technical issues: Grain In some cases, like in To Kill A Mockingbird, the camera didn’t actually zoom in on characters – the film was altered in a lab to appear to …