Misteryo sa Tuwa

The film was restored by the ABS-CBN Film Restoration through the Kantana Post-Production (Thailand) Co. Ltd. and L'Immagine Ritrovata for its film prints and Wildsound Studios for its color grading and audio restoration. The film was scanned in 4K format resolution in L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy using the 35mm prints from the ABS-CBN Film Archives. The image comparison of the movie was carried out using the five (5) Positive Prints, the only existing film materials, which already showed mild to severe type of decay. All five (5) Positive Prints have critical problems on color decay and focus problems that heavily affected the image. The film elements have emulsion and base damages that have caused severe line scratches in the picture. Reconstruction for the best copies that were used for each reel was tediously performed to achieve the best quality for digital restoration. The most drastically affected reels are R3, being the only copy available and R5 due to the advanced chemical decay and focus problems. Digital output shows the maximum level of restoration it can achieve. The missing frames that could not be addressed in digital restoration, have also affected the motion of some shots. Other picture defects such as dust/dirt, patches, continuous patches, single frame scratches, flicker, stabilization, splice mark, bump, squeeze, gate hair, continuous dust, continuous line scratch, stains, mold, mis-light, vertical band, and color breathing were successfully fixed and removed by the restoration artists of Kantana Post-Production (Thailand) Co., Ltd. The 2K restoration took a total of 3,440 hours by more than 250 restoration artists. Color grading and audio restoration was handled by Wildsound Studios.[1][2]

To address the issue of the damaged parts of Reel 3, the restoration team contacted the film's cinematographer Rody Lacap for the approval of fixing the parts of the film. In the end, Lacap decided to make the damaged parts in sepia tones, believing that the viewers would think it is a flashback. According to Leo P. Katigbak, head of the archives division, the team could have spent extra funds for the colorization of the damaged part but it was expensive and would cost around half a million pesos.

The restored version was premiered on November 11, 2019 at the Ayala Malls Manila Bay as part of the Cinema One Originals film festival. The premiere was attended by Vangie Labalan, film editor Jess Navarro, and the representatives of the cast and crew members of the film:, Wanggo Gallaga (son of Peque and Madeleine Gallaga), Rose S. Alimon (daughter of Tony Santos Sr.), Teresita V. Dela Cruz (wife of the director), Espie Dela Cruz-Salva (sister of the director), Juan Miguel Escudero (nephew of the film's production designer Don Escudero) and Eduardo R. Meñez, the head of the Office of Strategic Communications and Research - Department of Foreign Affairs.[3]