Following on from a Society event at Bournemouth University earlier in the year, and a few of the Board attending the Pinewood summer party, a fair number of IMIS members were again in attendance at Bradford’s Widescreen Weekend in October. Theo Gluck – a long standing IMIS member and former Director of Library Restoration and Preservation at Disney in Burbank, introduced the fabulously restored “The Lady and The Tramp” to the festival audience.
Also in attendance once again were film industry couple Dave and Carin-Anne Strohmaier. Some IMIS members may be aware of the Herculean film restoration achievement that Dave has accomplished over the past decade. He, with collaborators, has led the digital restoration of the full back catalogue of the three strip analogue Cinerama films of the
1950s and 1960s, the last in collaboration with Warner Brothers. Carin-Anne has had an extensive career in post production having worked on a number of Robert Zemeckis movies.
The couple have extended generous hospitality to IMIS members who have visited Hollywood over the years. IMIS was delighted to able to return such hospitality by organising a visit to Pinewood Studios. We showed them around the studio lot, treated them to lunch and included meetings with Ruhan Loterring and a visit to the Kodak film processing facility, and also meeting up with Jens Christensen Head of Post Production at Pinewood.
