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DarbeeVision(TM) Takes a Bow With 'The Company' at Toronto Film Fest
Market Wire, August, 2003
DarbeeVision™, is a post-production process that gives digital high-definition masters an unprecedented visual richness and puts the audience in the center of the action. Industry insiders and film lovers alike will have their first look at DarbeeVision™ in a theatrical setting when "The Company," from Sony Classics, has its world premiere at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival.
It's no surprise that director Robert Altman, who changed the way we hear films with "California Split" and "Nashville," is changing the way we see films with "The Company." The film stars Neve Campbell as a gifted ballet dancer on the brink of career success, along with Malcolm McDowell and James Franco. Shot in cooperation with Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, it is the first theatrical release to be processed using DarbeeVision™, and the principals are elated with the results. Says Altman, "DarbeeVision took away the flatness that's so typical of video, and made hi-def look even better than film. I wouldn't have shot in hi-def without it."
More than a sharpening filter or image corrector, the DarbeeVision™ formula extracts much of the same information the human brain does when we look around. It pre-emphasizes those parts of the image that tell the brain how round objects are, how they're separated in depth, what their details are, and which objects are worthy of attention. Darbee uses an automated network of computers to apply the DarbeeVision™ formula, pixel by pixel, to the image.
"'The Company' was shot in hi-definition. We digitally transformed the tape masters using DarbeeVision™, then filmed out the movie for theatrical release," explains DarbeeVision Inventor and Chief Technology Officer Paul Darbee. The result is a clear, rich, dimensional image that makes the audience feel as though they're in it -- without decoding, translation, special glasses, and without grain, noise, artifacts, or color distortion . "We've taken hi-def to the next level," Darbee says.
Others who've seen DarbeeVision™ in action agree. Director Fred Schepisi ("It Runs in the Family" and "I.Q.") says, "DarbeeVision makes a startling difference to image quality."
"The Company" will receive its Gala Presentation at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 in Roy Thomson Hall.
Contact:
Larry Pace, COO
DarbeeVision, Inc.
714.931.5941
401 N. Cotswolds Lane #C
Orange, CA 92869
larry@darbeevision.com
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