| 24 Oct 2025 | UM Libraries new Digitization Centre now open and accepting digitization requests The Lasergraphics ScanStation is used by the University of Manitoba to digitize film for preservation and access. |
| 30 Sep 2025 | Review of Film Scanning Advances at IBC 2025 The 8K association reviews the latest developments in film scanning technology at IBC 2025, including Lasergraphics' 65mm Director 13K and 65mm ScanStation. |
| 13 Jun 2025 | Scan5 Brings Unmatched Film Scanning Quality to Illinois with New Lasergraphics Transfers for 8mm and 16mm Film New service offers museum-grade digitization of vintage 8mm and 16mm film using the industry’s gold-standard Lasergraphics scanner. |
| 12 Jun 2025 | Relics of Minnesota history play bingo Using a Lasergraphics ScanStation, April Rodriguez and Joe Larsen digitize material for the Minnesota Historical Society's collection at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul on June 2. |
| 20 May 2025 | Saving Stories and Film for the Digital Age Sophie Mayer works as a Media Preservationist in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin using the Lasergraphics ScanStation. |
| 1 May 2025 | Warner Bros. scans 20 classic films in 8K Warner Bros. announced at NAB 2025 that it has scanned 20 films in 8K resolution − including the classic My Fair Lady shot in 65mm − using its Lasergraphics Director 13K scanner. |
| 15 Apr 2025 | 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. |
| 8 Apr 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. |
| 1 Apr 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. |
| 7 Mar 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. |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Long-lost Lincoln film found Underground Vaults & Storage uses Lasergraphics ScanStations to scan and store tens of millions of hours of film. |
| 18 Apr 2024 | 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. |
| 28 Feb 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. |
| 15 Dec 2023 | Kodak discusses modern day supply, processing and use of 65mm film Antonio Rasura, Director of Motion Picture Labs & Services at Kodak discusses the modern 65mm film manufacturing and workflow, including Kodak's use of the Lasergraphics 65mm ScanStation in their film lab. |
| 9 Sep 2023 | 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. |
| 26 Jul 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. |
| 28 Mar 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. |
| 12 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. |
| 24 Feb 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. |
| 31 Jan 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. |
| 15 Dec 2022 | 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. |
| 20-Nov-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. |
| 15 Apr 2021 | Digital Orchard celebrates 10 years by creating a new environmentally responsible home for film production “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.” |
| 26 Feb 2020 | 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.” |
| 20 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. |
| 21 Apr 2019 | Filmmaker unearths historical treasures in home movies Rick Prelinger uses the Lasergraphics ScanStation to produce a film series called “Lost Landscapes”, montages that present city life across 100 years. These portraits tell hidden histories of American cities through the most personal of lenses: home movies. |
| 27 Aug 2018 | The Reel Thing: Prime Focus and HBO Test 10K Scans of Film At The Reel Thing, an annual conference at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on “current thinking and most advanced practical examples of progress in the field of preservation, restoration and media conservation, |
| 14 Aug 2018 | Digitizing Early Television Rarities The UCLA Film & Television Archive is renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media. It uses the Lasergraphics ScanStation to ensure that film history is explored and enjoyed for generations to come. |
| 9 May 2018 | Dailies specialist invests in 65mm film scanner Digital Orchard’s new Lasergraphics ScanStation can convert film directly into digital form at high resolution and at speeds of up to 60 fps. |
| 18 Apr 2018 | Digital Orchard Supports 65MM Renaissance Film and digital workflow specialist, Digital Orchard, has brought high-speed 65mm film scanning to the UK with its new Lasergraphics ScanStation 65. |
| 15 Dec 2017 | Vintage film provides Stanford scientists new insights about Antarctica Applying modern film scanning technology, provided by Lasergraphics, and machine learning to a rare trove of historical airborne radar measurements could provide new insights about how Antarctica's ice sheets will change in a warming world. TED Talk: How we look kilometers below the Antartic ice sheet |
| 1 Mar 2017 | Bringing Mildred Pierce Back to Luminous Life The restoration teams at Warner Bros. and Criterion explain how they used the Director film scanner to capture the silken texture of the nitrate print of Michael Curtiz's classic noir melodrama. |
| 4 Oct 2013 | NanoTech Entertainment's 4K Studios Aquires Lasergraphics' The Director - Ultra HD 4K Film Scanners NanoTech Entertainment announced today the acquisition of two Director Ultra HD 4K motion picture film-scanning systems from Lasergraphics. After an extensive selection process that included all of the leading scanner manufacturers, Lasergraphics' Director was selected as the scanner of choice for 4K Studios new facilities in San Francisco. |
| 21 Mar 2013 | Ina and Gaumont Pathé Archives chose Lasergraphics The National Audiovisual Institute and Gaumont Pathé Archives commissioned Magic Hour for the supply, installation, and integration of a Lasergraphics Director 2K/4K scanner. At Gaumont Pathé Archives, the Director 2K/4K scanner replaces an SD telecine machine. "We have the ambition to re-digitize our entire collection," says Manuela Padoan, director of Gaumont Pathé Archives. |
| 11 Sep 2009 | Globalstor's Extremestor-DI to add Muscle to Lasergraphics' Director Demo at IBC 2009 Globalstor® Data Corporation, a premier OEM integrator of high-performance RAID, SAN and storage/video servers, is pleased to announce that Lasergraphics has chosen the Globalstor ExtremeStor-DI video storage and playback system to power demonstrations of its state-of-the-art Director motion picture film scanning system at IBC 2009. |
Movies and TV Shot on Film and Scanned Using Lasergraphics Film Scanners
