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See this video of Martin Scorsese describing the restoration process for “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.” Audio Mechanics was selected to perform the sound restoration for this 1943 classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger [see video here]
Audio Mechanics was selected by the International Olympic Committee to restore the film of the 1972 Munich olympic games, “Visions of Eight,” featured at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival [article here]
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/]
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 link] [New York Times link]
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]
