Ultra Resolution brings Warner classics to life

January 03, 2007 Known as Ultra Resolution, the technique has been nominated this year for a Scientific and Technical Academy Award and has restored films in the studio's vast library including "Singing In the Rain," "The Searchers" and "The Wizard of Oz" -- prints that over time have exhibited blurring or "color fringing" as well as shrinkage, stretching and other damage. Technical Operations and chief technology officer, Warner Bros. "The purpose of Technicolor was to make color, not precise images," explained Cookson about the Technicolor process used in the 1930s and '40s that involved stacking together each frame of a negative to produce a full color print.

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