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Saturday at The Reel Thing XXV

Today at The Reel Thing XXV -

Rebuilding Metropolis: A Report on the New Reconstruction
Thomas Bakels, ALPHA-OMEGA digital GmbH

"München 1945"
Thomas Bakels, ALPHA-OMEGA digital GmbH

A Non-Contact Method for Recovering Information from Magnetic Media
Brian Walker, Applied Pictures

From Silence to Sound: A Studio's Transition from Silent Films to Talking Pictures
Rita Belda, Sony Pictures

Special Screening of "So This Is Love" with Live Musical Accompaniment
Alan J. Stark, Musician

Paramount Pictures: Preservation Assessment: Digital Content
Andrea Kalas, Paramount Pictures
Christopher Cary, Ascent Media
Steve Kochak, Ascent Media

Digital Subjectivity: Restoring Barbara Loden's WANDA
Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive

Adventures in 65mm Restoration
Andrew Oran, FotoKem

A Look at the RCA Color Stabilizer for Early Monochrome Videotape Recorders
AKA: The Heterodyne Color Corrector
Ralph Sargent, Film Technology Company, Inc.

Saving Cyd Charisse - A Second Look
David Crosthwait, DC Video
Dan Wingate, Sony Pictures

Tonight at The Reel Thing

Friday, August 13, 2010
7:30pm

Fantasia (1940)
The Reel Thing presents a screening of the new digital restoration of the classic Walt Disney animated film, presented with the original intermission.

One of the most highly regarded of the Disney classics, a symphonic concert with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, embellished by Disney animation. 

Today at The Reel Thing XXV

Friday - August 13, 2010 at The Reel Thing XXV ...

Big Screen: Changing Dimensions of the Silver Screen
Jack Theakston, 3-D Film Preservation Foundation

Preserve and Access - "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"
Bob Schumacher, Deluxe Archive Solutions

Modern Technologies for Handling Legacy Optical Sound Tracks - Developments and Considerations for Photo Chemical Processes and Digital Scanning Techniques
Robert Heiber - Chace Audio by Deluxe
Ralph Sargent - Film Technology Company, Inc.

There's the Rub: The Restoration of "Bus Stop" (1956)
Seth Berkowitz, Cineric, Inc.

"We're Not Just Animation" - Disney Live-Action Restorations
Theo Gluck, Walt Disney Studios
Andrew Brutocao, Walt Disney Studios
Michele Winn, Walt Disney Studios
Jayson Wall, Walt Disney Studios

Archiving Color Image to Single Strip 35mm B&W Film
Sean McKee, IVC / Point 360

Poto and Cabengo (1980) - a Sound Restoration Case Study
John Polito, Audio Mechanics

Preservation at the Library of Congress Packard Campus:
A Progress Report and Perspectives on the Future
Ken Weissman, Library of Congress

Tonight at The Reel Thing XXV: Dr. Zhivago!

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Reel Thing XXV opens on Thursday, August 12th with a reception and a 4K digital projection screening of the new digital restoration of this classic David Lean film.

"A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution" ... the winner of five Oscars, the film was banned in the Soviet Union. It was finally shown in Russia in 1994.

The Reel Thing XXV:  August 12-14, 2010 at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood.  The two day technical symposium offers the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. The Reel Thing brings together a unique line up of laboratory technicians, archivists, new media technologists and preservationists.