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Today's topic is film restoration. We're lucky to have with us someone who knows a lot about this.

He's the technical director at Criterion and we've worked with him on

restoring a few of our films. We're happy to welcome Lee Klein of Criterion.

Thank you Lee for being on. Thank you, Lee, for being on. Thank you.

Of course, we're huge fans of what Criterion does

in restoring old titles and not so old titles.

Could you tell us when this started and how it came about?

And was Criterion always focused on restoration?

No, they weren't.

The restoration came later.

I think when DVD sort of took over Laser Desk, I guess that was like late 90s, the quality got better immediately,

even though everyone thought Laser Discs were so great now. You look at those and it looks so good but they did look pretty good then I guess and

then when DVDs came they really did look good and people were starting to see and then

restoration sort of started I. That was the beginning. We heard about this system called

MTI, which stood for mathematical technologies incorporated and they were a small little company out of Rhode Island

They had this computer that they could do restoration with like basically Photoshop that moved and looked at frames before and after and

Cool We liked it we saw it and looked at frames before and after.

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