Gabriela Plazas Among the Top Picks: Restoring the Oldest Footage in Film History
July-2024: Filmworkz
Gabriela Plazas: The oldest footage that I have ever worked with was: Operaciones del Doctor Posadas, which was originally filmed by Eugenio Py as a 10 minute film of Dr Alejandro Posadas performing the surgical intervention of resecting a hydatid cyst of the lung on a patient in the old Hospital de Clínicas in Buenos Aires. However, only five minutes of the footage remains preserved by the Argentine Cinemathique Foundation and was restored to be projected in an art exhibition at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University last year…
