Restoration

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Being honored with a spot on the hand-picked restoration team for this classic film, MTI Film was tasked with repairing the damage on this film. Chemical stains, roller rubs and persistent scratches were present throughout and created an opportunity to "think outside of the box" and develop individualized techniques. Some of the issues were due to a 50 year old negative, but others were issues that were never seen until this was scanned in 8K. Our software engineers developed unique algorithms, specifically designed to deal with the issues without altering the desert landscape. The fully-restored Director's Cut premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, after winning the Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Title at the 10th Annual FOCAL Awards in 2013.

A full restoration process from film scanning to clean-up in DRS™Nova V6.0 including use of SHINE, MTai FrameGen and multiple tools. A full color correction was completed at MTI FILM.

Restored for the Film Foundation with input from Christopher Nolan, MTI FILM used a range of tools including DRS™Nova software to clean-up the images, fixed jump cuts and replaced mutiple missing frames using the MTai FrameGen toolset. A color correction pass was applied by our senior colorist Tanner Buschman.

Restored in 2015, the digital version didn't require much work to restore it to original form except there were 14 missing frames that Paramount couldn't locate with any other sources. So they came to MTI FILM and used our MTai FrameGen where we were able to generate new frames to fix the jump cuts and to replace a 3 frame slug.

MTI Film was tasked with restoring the entire Married with Children catalog for all episodes. Film scanning of cut negative, reassembly, clean-up and color correction.

MTI Film was tasked with restoring the entire Seinfeld catalog for all episodes. Film scanning of cut negative, reassembly, clean-up and color correction.

The entire seven seasons of this classic sitcom were scanned from cut negative, restored using MTI Film's award winning DRS™Nova software.

A challenging job that actually drove new technology innovation at MTI FILM. Shot on film at 30fps. The client wanted a 23.9 delivery. Without simply dropping frames, MTAI Frame Convert was used to synthesize new frames and then they were QC and cleaned up in DRS Nova. A project that consumed the entire team but the results were amazing and years later, MTI FILM won an Emmy award for the AI tools used.

A classic film, directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Sir Alec Guinness. While the film was undergoing its first high resolution restoration, MTI Film discovered a production issue never before seen. A shutter problem with one of the cameras that created an intermittent ghosting effect that was now visible for the first time in 4K. The team of artists at MTI Film painstakingly went through each frame, repairing the issue using MTI Nova software.

The Godfather II (1974) - The second installment of the Godfather trilogy. In the quintessential style of Francis Ford Coppola, this film consists of numerous dissolves. With hundreds of transitions, the scratches on these opticals were in the thousands. The scratch removal tool in MTI Nova was the most valuable tool in the restoration of this iconic film.

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral. Restoration and Color Correction over sight at MTI FILM by director Ed Harris.

"Are you talkin' to me?" The movie begins with the taxi slowly driving down the street and through steam coming up from a manhole as the credits fade in and out of the clouds of steam. This opening title sequence alone took approx. 120 hours to perfect due to the amount of dirt, scratches and warping. Usually we'll receive final approval on a restoration from the studio. But with this title, the pressure was turned up on MTI's Restoration Department. We were informed Mr. Scorsese, being a huge supporter of film restoration and preservation, was going to review the restoration and final approval would be coming from the director himself. One of Martin Scorsese's cinematic gems!

Directed by William Wyler and needless to say, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif. The restoration of this picture put every tool in our software to its test. Heavy flicker and color breathing, scratches, tears, stabilization and warping were throughout and all were addressed by the MTI restoration team. This was a very popular title with all of the artists in the department and it became our "passion project". That passion shone through in the end, resulting in an absolutely brilliant restoration that was the featured title at the opening of the TCM Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2013. Ms. Streisand, who was present at the screening, was so impressed by the restoration, she requested a copy of the film for her personal collection.

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Restoration clean-up by MTI FILM.

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.

In support of SONY's release of Richard Pryor - Live on Sunset Strip, MTI FILM was tasked with films canning, image clean-up and restoration using DRS™Nova.

Richard III (1955) - There were multiple shots in the original camera negative where frames were so badly damaged, they were removed from the negative and a "slug" was inserted in their place. Using the paint, stabilization, dewarp and DRS tools in MTI Nova, we were able to flawlessly recreate frames that matched the adjacent frames in movement, color and density. You can hear Martin Scorsese discuss the Richard III restoration here: https://youtu.be/mN49grFTKxY

Ray Harryhausen Collection: The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Mysterious Island (1961), Jason and the Argonauts (1963). These three films featured the revolutionary stop-action animation of the infamous Ray Harryhausen.

Ray Harryhausen Collection: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) including the The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Mysterious Island (1961). These three films featured the revolutionary stop-action animation of the infamous Ray Harryhausen brought back to life by SONY and MTI FILM.

The series was produced by DIC Audiovisuel's American branch DIC Enterprises and aired on syndication a while after the theatrical release of the first movie in the series. With animation, MTI FILM developed tools that augmented the restoration fixes specifically to address animation, smoothing and grain.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the classic stop-motion animated TV special, first aired on December 6, 1964, on NBC as part of the General Electric Fantasy Hour, becoming an instant holiday tradition that has aired every year since. Animation has it's own challenges with duplicate frames and skipped frames but stop-motion adds another challenge when replacing pixels from surrounds frames. Despite the challenges, MTI's etam persevered and delivered a quality result.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Majority of the restoration was spent repairing film tears, bad splices and thousands of scratches, and the end result was perfection and this classic comedy can continue to be enjoyed for years. Movie trivia: Skippy (the dog in the film), worked with William Powell in "The Kennel Murder Case" in 1933. After being cast as Asta in this film, went on to work with Powell in four of the six Thin Man movies.

An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.

Another film from the SONY Pictures, Frank Capra box set, where the MTI FILM team did major restoration work using MTI FILM's award winning DRS™Nova software.

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission. One of the 20 films restored for a Frank Capra box set released by SONY Pictures.

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures and restored by MTI FILM.

The Scarlet Lady is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film written by Bess Meredyth and directed by Alan Crosland. MTI FILM restored the film using a range of tools including DRS™Nova. The Inter-titles and Narrative cards were initially in Italian. MTI FILM rebuilt them in English using a newly created font and replaced them in a new conform.

The 3rd film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Film historians tend to focus on this film because it introduces themes of murder and suspense that Hitchcock's name would later become synonymous with.
This was the first film restored by MTI Film in 2007.

To save the reputation of the hotel where they are employed, sisters try to cover up a murder.

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene. Restoration clean-up by MTI FILM with Color Correction

Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives. Restoration clean-up by MTI FILM with Color Correction.