Modern techniques were used to produce a pristine print for a 50th Anniversary theatrical revival reissue in 1991 (released by Paramount Pictures).
Released by the Criterion Collection, the DVD features a pristine print with a new translation and includes a 1966 television program about the film.
Though many cuts of this film exist, pristine American prints disappeared years ago.
The original film negative was water-damaged some years ago, but recently Sony Pictures Television (which now holds the television rights) unearthed an original 35 mm pristine print.
It is, rather, the original French version equipped with new English subtitles in a pristine print.
The film was remastered from a pristine 35mm print.
The pristine print and the live orchestra accompaniment made the Lincoln Center presentation of "Intolerance" easy to watch.
That's why it deserves to be seen as Film Forum in Manhattan is showing it, in the kind of pristine print more often struck for "Lawrence of Arabia."
Only a small part of the film, in a pristine new 35-millimeter print, deals with such hair-raising adventure.
Some pristine prints of the original issues were obtained from the UCLA Film and Television Archive.