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Audio Mechanics has been chosen to supervise the digital preservation of 20th Century Fox’s entire inventory of feature film sound assets. The process includes metadata verification, audio evaluation, digital transfer for preservation, audio QC, and detailed reports.
The Elia Kazan Collection, by 20th Century Fox, has won the National Society of Film Critics’ Heritage award. Audio Mechanics provided sound restoration for Baby Doll (1956), Viva Zapata! (1952), and A Face in the Crowd (1957).
Audio Mechanics’ restoration of WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES, by the Mariposa Collective, won the National Society of Film Critics’ Heritage award. Restoration supervisor, Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive. http://www.nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/
Responsibilities: Inspect films frame by frame for all audio visual elements involved in the motion picture. Detail all problems and document any issues involved in the degradation of the film. Work with magnetic and optical tracks and inspect them for issues. Prepare detailed and specific reports on the physical condition of the film. Prepare a detailed plan for restoration, locating all elements to be preserved. Work with the company supervisors and film owner to outline the restoration and preservation protocols. Once the plan has been approved, be responsible for restoring all deteriorated elements and for then transferring the film to … [more]
Audio Mechanics work will be featured in four feature restorations and several animated shorts showing at the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” film festival. MoMa’s restoration of “Just Around the Corner” aka “Sunnyside Up” featuring Shirley Temple; UCLA Film & Television Archive’s restorations of Barbara Loden’s “Wanda”; “Point of Order”; “Cry Danger”; and Ub Iwerks cartoons. MoMA: http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1113#related_screenings New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/movies/15restore.html?_r=2&ref=movies
review by Doug Cummings – “One of the most impressive presentations was John Polito’s demonstration of the sound work he performed on Poto and Cabengo, Gorin’s first solo feature and an utterly fascinating exploration of the linguistic mystery posed by two young San Diego twins who appeared to have invented their own language. (The restoration has been touring, and plans are in place to release it as a Criterion DVD.) When standard de-essing software failed to correct sound distortions on the original master, Polito separated the sibilance and the vowels into separate tracks, processed them individually, and recombined them. Gorin … [more]
Audio Mechanics’ restoration of the classic film from 1948, “The Red Shoes” won the Focal Archive Restoration Award and the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics. ITV Studios, 30/04/10 Film legend Martin Scorsese has expressed his delight at ITV Global Entertainment winning a Focal International award for its restoration of Powell & Pressburger classic The Red Shoes. ITV Global Entertainment’s Operations Director Fiona Maxwell accepted the award on Tuesday night at the Lancaster London Hotel. (See her on stage with Martin here.) The restoration of the film, to which ITV owns the rights, happened in collaboration with the … [more]
