Pinewood's media preservation, restoration and archive facility
open for business
March 16, 2010
Source: Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios
has launched its Media Preservation, Restoration and Archive
facility with a reception attended by key industry figures
from companies including Optimum Releasing, Canal+, Disney,
Getty Images, and Warner Bros and the BBC.
Located in Pinewood’s Picture Post Production suite,
the new facilities will provide restoration services for still
and moving images.
Pinewood announced a deal last year with
Optimum Releasing and Canal+ relating to the Canal+ British
Library Archive which comprises some 1,400 classic British
films including early Hitchcock, The Third Man, The Ladykillers,
The Dambusters and many other titles from iconic names like
Ealing, Carry On and Hammer.
As part of the deal, Pinewood will provide a large amount
of the film and audio preservation and restoration services
for the film archive, which has been based at Pinewood Studios
for the past twenty years. Pinewood will start with restorations
of three classic titles – Michael Powell’s Peeping
Tom, Robert Hamer’s Kind Hearts and Coronets and Lionel
Jeffries’ The Railway Children, each of which will be
subsequently re-released theatrically and made available in
Bluray/DVD. Pinewood will also complete the planned digitisation
of the Canal+ Image UK Ltd stills
archive.
Working in conjunction with Optimum Releasing and Canal+,
Pinewood Post Production will provide managed, secure temperature
and humidity controlled storage for the Canal+ Image UK library
assets and has constructed two new, state of the art cold
storage facilities to manage this process.
Speaking at the launch, Giles Farley, co-Managing Director
of Pinewood Group Post Production said: "We are delighted
to have offically opened the new facilities and are immensely
pleased to have been joined by so many colleagues from across
the film and television industry.
Everyone present here today shares our passion for preserving
iconic and historical film titles and still images. We are
especially proud that our new state of the art facilities
allow us to work with Canal+ to restore many classic British
titles."
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