Inside UCLA's vast archive preserving fragile film history
With over 350,000 movies, 170,000 TV shows, and a staggering 27 million feet of newsreel footage (or about 600 million feet of film in total), the UCLA Film & Television Archive is one of the largest collections of original moving images in the world and uses the Lasergraphics ScanStation to preserve these films.
May 27, 2026
Scanning the Impossible: How BFI's Lasergraphics Director Is Revolutionising Film Preservation
From shrunken 8mm rushes to rare 70mm masterpieces, British Film Institute's flagship Lasergraphics Director scanner delivers breathtaking 13.5K resolution with gentle sprocket-less handling − breathing new digital life into fragile art films and making cinema history accessible for generations.
March 31, 2026
Preserving Lost 1965 Doctor Who episodes
R3Store Studios specifically chose the Lasergraphics ScanStation for its superior performance in digitizing a rare batch of lost 1965 Doctor Who episodes. Selected over other systems for its unmatched scanning quality, the technology is being used to restore these 1965 gems ‐ recently recovered from a private collection ‐ for their upcoming BBC debut.
March 24, 2026
Film Preservationists Share a Space and a Goal
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) and the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) both use Lasergraphics film scanners.
January 22, 2026
University of Manitoba Libraries go with Lasergraphics
The Lasergraphics ScanStation is used by the University of Manitoba to digitize film for preservation and access.
October 24, 2025
Review of Film Scanning Advances at IBC 2025
The 8K association reviews the latest developments in film scanning technology at IBC 2025, including Lasergraphics' 65mm Director 13K and 65mm ScanStation.
September 30, 2025
Scan5 Brings Unmatched Film Scanning Quality to Illinois with New Lasergraphics Transfers for 8mm and 16mm Film
New service offers museum-grade digitization of vintage 8mm and 16mm film using the industry's gold-standard Lasergraphics scanner.
June 13, 2025
Relics of Minnesota history play bingo
Using a Lasergraphics ScanStation, April Rodriguez and Joe Larsen digitize material for the Minnesota Historical Society's collection at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul on June 2.
June 12, 2025
Saving Stories and Film for the Digital Age
Sophie Mayer works as a Media Preservationist in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin using the Lasergraphics ScanStation.
May 20, 2025
Warner Bros. scans 20 classic films in 8K
Warner Bros. announced at NAB 2025 that it has scanned 20 films in 8K resolution − including the classic My Fair Lady shot in 65mm − using its Lasergraphics Director 13K scanner.
May 1, 2025
Digital Orchard & Kodak Film Lab London Announce 65mm IMAX Upgrade
Digital Orchard Group and Kodak Film Lab London unveil a ground-breaking scanning upgrade to their Lasergraphics ScanStation, enhancing capabilities across all 65mm formats, including 5-perf, 8-perf, and 15-perf IMAX.
April 14, 2025
Using 8K Scanning to Make an Old Film Look New
IMAX discusses how it generates 8K scans using its Director 13K 65mm scanner to be ready for the impeding adoption of 8K in theaters and in-home televisions.
April 8, 2025
From rock 'n' roll to B-52 bombers, new Wichita firm's goal is to save history on film
Underground Vaults & Storage uses Lasergraphics ScanStations to scan and store tens of millions of hours of film.
March 7, 2025
Long-lost Lincoln film found
A copy of “The Heart of Lincoln”, a 1915 film thought to be lost forever, was found by an intern sifting through donated reels and scanned with the Lasergraphics ScanStation so modern audiences can again enjoy this newly discovered treasure.
February 5, 2025
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory utilizes the Director to preserve the most important scientific and legacy films to support the laboratory's mission of enhancing national security.
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Virtual tour of the NSRC digitization facilities and capabilities
February 28, 2024
Kodak discusses modern day supply, processing and use of 65mm film
Antonio Rasura, Director of Motion Picture Labs & Services at Kodak discusses the modern 65mm film manufacturing and workflow, including Kodak's use of the Lasergraphics 65mm ScanStation in their film lab.
December 15, 2023
WINNER: Best Restored Film
Ohikkoshi (Moving) was awarded Best Restored Film at the Venice Biennial International Film Festival. The 1993 film was scanned on a Lasergraphics ScanStation at the Qooop Post Production Studio in Japan.
09-Sep-2023
Preserving the Experimental Films of Narcisa Hirsch
Narcisa Hirsch was a pioneering experimental filmmaker in Argentina who started working in the 1970s with delicate mediums such as Super8 and 16mm film. The Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch, which was established to safeguard her films, is working with the USC Digital Repository to digitize and preserve Hirsch's films for a new generation of filmmakers to learn from. Hirsch's films were scanned using the Lasergraphics Archivist.
26-Jul-2023
4K restoration of Raging Bull to be released in cinemas
Created from the 35mm original camera negative, the 4K resolution version of the movie was recreated on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner, with the soundtrack also being remastered.
28-Mar-2023
Martin Scorsese
on the importance of film restoration
Concerned that the legacy of cinema was vanishing because of the instability of film stocks, Martin Scorsese, joined by other leading filmmakers, started a foundation to preserve motion pictures for future generations, including restoring classics in danger of disappearing forever. Many of these films were recently re-scanned using Lasergraphics film scanners.
12-Mar-2023
Periscope Film Rescues Thousands of Historic Films from Destruction
Periscope Film owners just released a mini-documentary about the rescue of a large collection of old 16 mm celluloid films from the landfill. Films are digitized at 4K resolution using a Lasergraphics ScanStation archival quality film scanner, and then the restoration fun begins.
24-Feb-2023
Casablanca scanned in 4K with Lasergraphics Director 10K
at Warner Bros.
Since the introduction of 4K UHD Blu-Ray in 2016, studios have been giving their most celebrated titles renewed life by rescanning a film with enhanced 4K resolution, new High Dynamic Range (HDR) color grades, and even remastered audio. Casablanca was recently restored by Burbank's Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging using the Lasergraphics Director film scanner.
31-Jan-2023
How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film
Is Restored!
Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored is on a mission to restore the films of Max Fleischer from original prints and negatives. The team and restoration expert Steve Stanchfield at Blackhawk Films, a film scanning facility in Southern California, explains the restoration process using Lasergraphics film scanners.
15-Dec-2022
Malcolm X – The Criterion Collection
This new digital transfer was created in 4K 16-bit resolution on a Lasergraphics film scanner from the 35 mm original camera negative. While Warner Bros. has treated Malcolm X well over the years, Criterion's 4K transfer is pretty spectacular.
20-Nov-2022
Park Road Post Goes 10K
with Lasergraphics
“Two of the key benefits with film are its resolution and its dynamic range. Once we have that in the digital realm, we can then manipulate it to achieve the best result, but first we need to be able to capture the image from film at the best possible quality and this is where we found the Director from Lasergraphics excelled.”
Ian Bidgood, Director of Engineering
Park Road Post Production
26-Feb-2020
MPI restores The Wizard of Oz in 4K HDR
The classic Victor Fleming-directed film The Wizard of Oz, which was released by MGM in 1939 and won two of its six Academy Award nominations, has been beautifully restored by Burbank’s Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging using the Lasergraphics Director film scanner.
11-Feb-2020
