Lowry Digital Images
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Lowry Digital Imaging is a digital film restoration company founded in 1988 by John D. Lowry and based in Burbank, California. Lowry gained industry recognition in the 1971 for his computer-based proprietary algorithms used in the restoration of the NASA Apollo missions 16 and 17 films. The company is now one of the most well-respected in the world, business blooming with the rise in popularity of DVDs. DTS, Inc. purchased the company on January 6, 2005. As of 15 December 2006, LDI has 700 Apple Power Mac G5s, a server bay with 700 terabytes and 2 $300,000 digital film scanners.
Lowry describes the restoration process as overcoming three obstacles: wear and tear, age, and multiple generations of optical copies. Each frame is scanned into a high-resolution digital format, where the computer first checks for standard problems like size alterations or jitter. Then the files go through the lab's render farm for speck removal, which is then eye-checked frame-by-frame. The system works natively in 32-bit floating point, can process any format like HD and 4K, and outputs to a pristine digital master.
[edit] Restoration filmography
- Miami Vice (2006)
- Die Another Day (2002)
- The World Is Not Enough (1999)
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- GoldenEye (1995)
- The Godfather Part III (1990)
- Licence to Kill (1989)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- The Living Daylights (1987)
- A View to a Kill (1985)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- Octopussy (1983)
- Return of the Jedi (1983)
- For Your Eyes Only (1981)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Moonraker (1979)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
- Live and Let Die (1973)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Thunderball (1965)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- From Russia With Love (1963)
- Dr. No (1962)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- Giant (1956)
- Moby Dick (1956)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Them! (1954)
- Peter Pan (1953)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Cinderella (1950)
- Brief Encounter (1946)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Bambi (1942)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- The Ghoul (1933)
- Little Women (1933)
