By Staff, May 16, 2007
Post Logic Studios completed restoration and color correction of the 3D John Wayne film Hondo. The 1953 classic is set to debut at this year's Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2007 as part of the John Wayne 100-year anniversary celebration.
Hondo was released in 3D when theatre-goers were being lost to color television in the early 1950s. The film features Wayne as Hondo Lane, who discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
Post Logic received the original right eye and left eye film negative, which was shot in stereoscopic anaglyph for 3D viewing. Much of the original film stock was damaged due to age with warping, fading and shrinkage of the negative
. Post Logic colorist Kris Santa Cruz went through the footage carefully to determine which elements were best suited to restoration, and worked closely with Gretchen Wayne, to select an appropriate look to optimize the look of the restored version of the film.
The footage was scanned with a Thomson Spirit 2K, and color corrected on a DaVinci 2K. Dirt and scratch removal was done using the DVNR 2K ASC3, grain reduction done on the AGR4, but much of the restoration had to be performed by hand on an MTI DRS Correct, frame by frame, a painstaking task undertaken by Tim Gallegos and the restoration team at Post Logic Studios. Stabilization was performed by Inferno artist Patrick Phillips, and final delivery was output to HDCam SR.
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