edited by Gian Luca Farinelli and Nicola Mazzanti. Bologna: Grafis Edizioni, 1994; 122 p., ill., 12,000 Lit.

Four years after the symposium titled "Towards a Theory of Film Restoration", held from November 30 to December 1st, 1990, the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna has published its proceedings. The occasion was a starting point for a long-term project involving the building of a specialized lab (L'Immagine Ritrovata), as well as the increasing involvement in the Lumière Project held by the European Union, and the gathering of film historians and theoreticians for a preliminary investigation of the relationship between film preservation and scholarly research. From the latter standpoint, this book will be a useful introduction to a field which has witnessed a spectacular progress in the last decade. Topics are divided into three sections: Film as a text and the reconstruction of the original print; issues of film philology; methods and techniques of restoration. Part II is of special interest for students approaching the discipline, thanks to its summary of the most common procedures followed by archives and laboratories in their activity. The papers, written in Italian, are followed by a bibliography updating the list published in 1985 by the periodical Comunicazioni di massa. (P.Ch.Us.)