This, as the feature tells us, is a great loss to our heritage and culture. The commentary then is given to Robert Gitt, U.C.L.A 's Film and Television Archive Preservation Office. Mr. Gitt details the efforts required to restore a film to it's original form. Often the technician ends a day filthy from the dust and acetate goo that many films have been reduced. Mr. Gitt uses the Guns of Naverone as an example.
Many films have to be restored scene by scene, frame by frame.
In Guns, most of the prevailing copies were made by a lab that altered the lighting in the night scenes making them appear to be daylight. One thing that tipped off the restorers to this was the presence of headlights on a truck in the opening scene. Another obstacle in the restoration of Guns was the soundtrack. In 1961 when the movie was released, it was uncensored in large cities but played censored in smaller towns. The most notable case of this in Guns is the speech given by a young Richard Harris in the beginning of the movie.