North By Northwest screening…
Aug. 22: Tonight I saw a 4K presentation of “North by Northwest” at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and it looked extraordinary. As I understand it, it was originally scanned at 12K x 8X and finished in 4K with the presentation on a Sony 4K SXRD projector. I was also informed that most of the work was scanned from an original camera negative which, unfortunately, had damage on most of the blue layer. To fix the problem, they used the blue channel from the color separation reels. Warner Bros.’ Motion Picture Imaging (MPI is WB’s restoration division) did this in anticipation of the 50 year anniversary of the film and Blu-ray release.
It looked so clean and wonderful and quite possibly as fresh as a first run screening back in 1959. What a wonderful treat. Thank you Aaron for the invite.