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our job was to make it perfect," says director
of restoration Sean McKee, former CEO of
Screen Time Images, who worked closely
with da Vinci to help develop its Revival sys-
tem. IVC has avoided the trend of subcon-
tracting restoration work to facilities in
other countries and is able to remain "ag-
gressively competitive right here in Holly-
wood," he reports.
The restoration of Von Ryan's Express
began with the film A/B roll negatives
scanned at
LiquiDefinition,
wet gate
Imagica XE
process eliminates
The 4K
and IVC began
ing each reel
ar tists spent
da Vinci's Resolve
vival film restoration
Von Ryan's Express was
"extremely damaged"
when IVC got its hands
on the negative. Resolve
and Revival were used.
RESTORATION