Digital Orchard & Kodak Film Lab London Announce 65mm IMAX Upgrade
Digital Orchard Group and Kodak Film Lab London unveil a ground-breaking scanning upgrade to their Lasergraphics ScanStation, enhancing capabilities across all 65mm formats, including 5-perf, 8-perf, and 15-perf IMAX.
April 14, 2025
Using 8K Scanning to Make an Old Film Look New
IMAX discusses how it generates 8K scans using its Director 13K 65mm scanner to be ready for the impeding adoption of 8K in theaters and in-home televisions.
April 8, 2025
Largest moving image archive on the West Coast
With over 350,000 movies, 170,000 TV shows, and a staggering 27 million feet of newsreel footage (or about 600 million feet of film in total), the UCLA Film & Television Archive is one of the largest collections of original moving images in the world and uses the Lasergraphics ScanStation to preserve these films.
April 1, 2025
From rock 'n' roll to B-52 bombers, new Wichita firm's goal is to save history on film
Underground Vaults & Storage uses Lasergraphics ScanStations to scan and store tens of millions of hours of film.
March 7, 2025
Long-lost Lincoln film found
A copy of “The Heart of Lincoln”, a 1915 film thought to be lost forever, was found by an intern sifting through donated reels and scanned with the Lasergraphics ScanStation so modern audiences can again enjoy this newly discovered treasure.
February 5, 2025
15th TCM Classic Film Festival
The 15th TCM Classic Film Festival will screen the world premiere restorations of North by Northwest and The Searchers in VistaVision, as well as several other films scanned on Lasergraphics film scanners including Chinatown, Grand Hotel, Lawrence of Arabia, On The Waterfront, Pulp Fiction, and Rear Window.
April 18-24, 2024
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory utilizes the Director to preserve the most important scientific and legacy films to support the laboratory's mission of enhancing national security.
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Virtual tour of the NSRC digitization facilities and capabilities
February 28, 2024
WINNER: Best Restored Film
Ohikkoshi (Moving) was awarded Best Restored Film at the Venice Biennial International Film Festival. The 1993 film was scanned on a Lasergraphics ScanStation at the Qooop Post Production Studio in Japan.
09-Sep-2023
Preserving the Experimental Films of Narcisa Hirsch
Narcisa Hirsch was a pioneering experimental filmmaker in Argentina who started working in the 1970s with delicate mediums such as Super8 and 16mm film. The Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch, which was established to safeguard her films, is working with the USC Digital Repository to digitize and preserve Hirsch's films for a new generation of filmmakers to learn from. Hirsch's films were scanned using the Lasergraphics Archivist.
26-Jul-2023
4K restoration of Raging Bull to be released in cinemas
Created from the 35mm original camera negative, the 4K resolution version of the movie was recreated on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner, with the soundtrack also being remastered.
28-Mar-2023
Martin Scorsese
on the importance of film restoration
Concerned that the legacy of cinema was vanishing because of the instability of film stocks, Martin Scorsese, joined by other leading filmmakers, started a foundation to preserve motion pictures for future generations, including restoring classics in danger of disappearing forever. Many of these films were recently re-scanned using Lasergraphics film scanners.
12-Mar-2023
Periscope Film Rescues Thousands of Historic Films from Destruction
Periscope Film owners just released a mini-documentary about the rescue of a large collection of old 16 mm celluloid films from the landfill. Films are digitized at 4K resolution using a Lasergraphics ScanStation archival quality film scanner, and then the restoration fun begins.
24-Feb-2023
Casablanca scanned in 4K with Lasergraphics Director 10K
at Warner Bros.
Since the introduction of 4K UHD Blu-Ray in 2016, studios have been giving their most celebrated titles renewed life by rescanning a film with enhanced 4K resolution, new High Dynamic Range (HDR) color grades, and even remastered audio. Casablanca was recently restored by Burbank's Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging using the Lasergraphics Director film scanner.
31-Jan-2023
How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film
Is Restored!
Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored is on a mission to restore the films of Max Fleischer from original prints and negatives. The team and restoration expert Steve Stanchfield at Blackhawk Films, a film scanning facility in Southern California, explains the restoration process using Lasergraphics film scanners.
15-Dec-2022
Malcolm X – The Criterion Collection
This new digital transfer was created in 4K 16-bit resolution on a Lasergraphics film scanner from the 35 mm original camera negative. While Warner Bros. has treated Malcolm X well over the years, Criterion's 4K transfer is pretty spectacular.
20-Nov-2022
Park Road Post Goes 10K
with Lasergraphics
“Two of the key benefits with film are its resolution and its dynamic range. Once we have that in the digital realm, we can then manipulate it to achieve the best result, but first we need to be able to capture the image from film at the best possible quality and this is where we found the Director from Lasergraphics excelled.”
Ian Bidgood, Director of Engineering
Park Road Post Production
26-Feb-2020
MPI restores The Wizard of Oz in 4K HDR
The classic Victor Fleming-directed film The Wizard of Oz, which was released by MGM in 1939 and won two of its six Academy Award nominations, has been beautifully restored by Burbank’s Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging using the Lasergraphics Director film scanner.
11-Feb-2020
