Little rolls of film, no bigger than hockey pucks, sat inside a large glass pot, under a lid, together with silica gel. This is a magnificent beast, made by a British company, Cinetech, and its job is to clean film. What does it say about the force of a film that it can literally be dialled up and down? He had this special neon look on his films, and he wanted to change it and get away from that cold light,” Pozzi told me. All the more reason, Pozzi added, to get a movie scanned: “Preservation is always the base of everything.