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Thursday, December 18, 2003

John Lowry: Film restoration

It turns out some of my favorite recent DVD's--Sergio Leone's stunning "Once Upon a Time in the West" and the "Indiana Jones Trilogy" were digitally restored by a genius named John Lowry, who was just featured on Apple's Web site. Using 100 Dual Processor Power Mac G5s (each with 3.5 GB of RAM) and 300 Power Mac G4s, 100 terabytes of hard disk storage, and his own proprietary film cleaning technology, Lowry does an amazing job cleaning up deteriorating film, as my recent movie purchases prove. "We could have done a lot of the dirt removal, but we knew it wouldn’t be as good," he says. "We owe it to filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to make sure that these films are pristine." Great reading.

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