Possible methodologies for the restoration of digital media: Restoration of the film “A Charlie Parker

This chapter stems from an urgent problem that has developed internationally in recent years regarding the safeguard of Italian cinematic and audiovisual cultural and scientific heritage which is in danger of extinction due to the difficulty of preserving celluloid, an important historical and artistic asset for our country, and electronic formats, the most numerous in the archive. In order to recuperate this cultural heritage, it is essential to carry out a broad process of recuperation, restoration and digitalization of the film and audiovisual material, but at the same time it is necessary to form a careful critical analysis of the methodology used and of the typologies of intervention by the universities and by the film archives and museums.