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Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-heck-not dept.

bfl writes "The BBC is running a story about Lowry Digital Images and how they used 600 dual G5s and 400 TB of storage space to clean the dirt off of the old Star Wars reels, and upgrade the resolution to get them ready for their DVD release."

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  1. Don't forget the "Jedi Clause." by sakusha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most people don't realize, much of the primary CG work done on the Star Wars films are done on Macs. But ILM signed contracts with SGI which prohibits them from acknowledging the contribution of any system other than SGI. Inside ILM, this contractual obligation is known as "the Jedi Clause." So the contribution of Macs and Mac users to these films go largely unrecognized.

  2. List of Movies restored by Lowry Digital by Danathar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Amazon has a list made up by Chuck Kahn of movies that have been cleaned up by Lowry.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/l is t-browse/-/1X2DZ42QS8OVB/103-1368633-4717431

    I've picked up THX1138, Once upon a time in the west, North by Northwest, The Ghoul and of course Star Wars.

    The results are INCREDIBLE. Except for some obvious dubbing with sound, Once upon a time in the west looks like it was filmed yesterday. So does THX1138!

    I've tried finding the Lowry Digital Web site. But INCREDIBLY it seems like they don't have one! Seems strange. You would think they would have a web site telling people the films they have done so people might go out and buy them.

    If somebody knows it....PLEASE post it!