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  • John Polito at the WEX – Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration

    February 21, 2019  •  Categorized as: News

    John Polito at the WEX - Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration

    Sound engineer helps restore ’40s film-noir drama ‘Detour’ By Terry Mikesell The Columbus Dispatch Posted Feb 21, 2019 at 4:30 AM Restored films including “Detour,” will be screened during “Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration” at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Audio engineer John Polito led the effort to restore the movie soundtrack. As an audio engineer, John Polito used to think that poorly recorded music and movie soundtracks were painful to hear. Now, not so much. “Over the years, I learned that once I’m done with work, I just want to enjoy the music or the sound,” he said. “I’m like the … [more]

  • Enamorada is not only one of the most important references of the golden age of Latin American cinema, but it is also a world classic of romantic cinema.

    October 9, 2018  •  Categorized as: News

    Enamorada is not only one of the most important references of the golden age of Latin American cinema, but it is also a world classic of romantic cinema.

    Martin Scorsese: “The soundtrack, restored by Audio Mechanics, includes the beautiful performance of” Malagueña Salerosa “, one of the many moments of this beloved feature film”. After the premiere of a restored version in the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival that was presented by Martin Scorsese himself, founder and president of The Film Foundation , the film will have its South American premiere in The Classics, the film festival that they will live forever. The premiere in Bogotá of this great Mexican classic will be next November 8 and in this respect Scorsese himself has said: “I am … [more]

  • Grammy Winner – Best American Roots Performance

    February 27, 2018  •  Categorized as: News

    Grammy Winner - Best American Roots Performance

    Congratulations to Alabama Shakes for Best American Roots Performance, Grammies 2018. Mastered by Audio Mechanics.

  • FOCAL INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 2017

    May 31, 2017  •  Categorized as: News

    FOCAL INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 2017

    WINNER! – Award for Best Archive Restoration & Preservation Project 1912-1992: 80 years of Olympic films restored International Olympic Committee   |   Switzerland •Commissioned by: International Olympic Committee •Restoration by: Warner Bros MPI & Audio Mechanics, Burbank, under the management of Adrian Wood & Robert Jaquier Audio Mechanics is proud to be part of the winning team for Best Archive Restoration & Preservation Project in the 2017 FOCAL Awards. John Polito attended the awards ceremony and was singled out by Robert Jaquier as an important part of the team, having remastered nearly all of the sound for this impressive project. http://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2017/the-focal-international-awards-2017

  • Audio Mechanics in the New York Times

    September 28, 2016  •  Categorized as: News

    Audio Mechanics in the New York Times

    The Race to Save the Films We Love By MANOHLA DARGISAUG. 25, 2016 …To help with the sound for “Cock of the Air,” the preservationists looked to John Polito, an engineer and the owner of Audio Mechanics. Together they worked on the sound using assorted elements they had gathered. After years of vainly searching for prints with the censored dialogue intact, they took the unusual step of hiring actors like Hamish Linklater to record the excised lines, using an onscreen icon to indicate what had been censored. (Mr. Polito played some piano music that had gone missing in a butchered seduction scene.) … [more]

  • My Fair Lady

    September 15, 2014  •  Categorized as: News

    My Fair Lady

    CBS Home Entertainment in association with Robert Harris of The Film Preserve Ltd partnered with Audio Mechanics to transfer, restore and re-master the sound track of this eight-time Academy Award-winning musical feature from 1964. Proprietary equipment was used to accurately transfer the original 6-track magnetic masters in high resolution, capturing the timeless clarity and detail of the original film. The audio was then meticulously restored and re-mastered into multiple formats, including 7.1 for theatrical presentation, 5.1 for BluRay/DVD for home theater, as well as new archival tracks representing the original Academy Award-winning 6-track 70mm mix.

  • Martin Scorsese on BLIMP

    May 6, 2013  •  Categorized as: News

    Martin Scorsese on BLIMP

    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]