The work prints reproduce not only the footage shot but also the edge numbers that were photographically imprinted on the raw film stock.
During the reign of Casimir IV, various artists came to work and live in Kraków, and Johann Haller established a printing press in the city after Kasper Straube had printed the Calendarium Cracoviense, the first work printed in Poland, in 1473.
The work prints in particular give insight into what made the book succeed.
His daughter, Chloé Scialom, found the work print of "Letters to Prison" in his closet; she saw to its restoration.
A court ordered May to give up the work print to the studio, but the only extant copy had mysteriously disappeared.
While the work print is being refined, decisions are made about additions or adjustments to the image that could not be created in the camera.
As desired, the work print may be "one light" (given uniform exposure) or "timed" (exposure corrected for scene-to-scene variations).
On Showgirl's Luck (1931) Mona did the final cut, but did not prepare the work print.
The work print goes through many stages from rough to fine cut, as the editor juggles such factors for each shot and scene as camera placement, relation between sound and image, performance quality, and cutting rhythm.
Kodar, 73, is to provide the work print, which she has been storing at her home in Primosten, on the Adriatic coast in Croatia, since Welles smuggled it out of Paris in 1975 and had it shipped to California.
