Repainting the mechanical ballet. Restoration of colours in ‘Ballet mécanique’ by Fernand Léger

This article has been selected by the editorial board of the academic journal «Color Culture and Science» among the best papers presented to the “Conference of Color” in recent years. In «Color Culture and Science»,Vol. 4, Fall 2015, (ISSN 2385-9568). Re-release of the chapter already published in M. Rossi (ed.), Colour and Colorimetry. Multidisciplinary Contributions, Vol. IX B, Maggioli, Rimini, 2013, pp. 560-564 (ISBN 978-88-387-6242-0); The essay includes the description of an experimental restoration project applied to a colored film of the 1920s European avant-garde. The project was addressed to replicate the tests to apply the colors on the film emulsion.