The Preservation Screening Program provide public access to motion pictures that have been preserved/restored. Through this program, today's moviegoers are connection with film art and culture of the past. Between this movies is "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (1951) directed by Albert Lewin.
In this movie, Ava Gardner plays the charismatic Pandora Reynolds living in the small Spanish port of Esperanza. Adored by men, Pandora is unsuccessfully in her attempts to find true love until she meets Dutch sea captain Hendridk van der Zee (James Mason). They fall in love, with Pandora learning shortly after that van der Zee is the mysterious Flying Dutchman, cursed to wander the seas until he can find a woman to die for him. George Eastman House and The Film Foundation worked closely with Cineric, Inc in NYC to restore this film. After exhaustive worldwide search, no original negatives could be found. Working from separation master positives created in 1951 the film was restored photo-chemically. Additionally, the soundtrack was fully restored by Audio Mechanics in Burbank, California. It was presented in the 46th NY Film Festival by Martin Scorsese, who had the original material used to restored it.
