[Tig] Monochrome Cineon files & 2K/4K dirty scans with IR pass

[Jeff Kreines]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Rob Lingelbach wrote:

> is that nitrate Jeff?


That's nitrate, as is almost everything at the Library of Congress  
Motion Picture Conservation Center.  But the Kinetta scanner  
prototype they have now was built specifically for scanning the Paper  
Print collection, of pre-1914 films that were printed on 35mm-wide  
paper for copyright registration.  They scan these prints, and clean  
them up using MTI Correct and After Effects, and output them to 35mm  
B&W film on a custom film recorder we built for them.  Recently a  
Chaplin short they restored, Gentlemen of Nerve, showed at Il Cinema  
Retrovato, a silent film festival in Bologna, mixed in with films  
that had come from film elements, and no one in the very discerning  
preservationist audience could tell that it had originated from a  
paper print, according to Pat Loughney, who's head of George Eastman  
House and wrote his PhD dissertation on paper prints.

Jeff Kreines