Cintel
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Cintel International Ltd is a British
company, based in Ware, Hertfordshire
,SG12 0AE, link Cintel which specialises in the design and manufacture of professional post-production
equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats. It was formerly part of the Rank Organisation
.
Their main products are based on either cathode ray tube
(CRT) or charge coupled device (CCD) technology and include, like the diTTo, diTTo Evolution & dataMill film scanners.
Millennium II, Millennium HD & C-Reality & DSX telecine
s, imageMill 1 & 2 image processing system.
Many movies and TV shows for TV were transferred from film to TV on Cintel Telecines. Cintel saw reduced sales when their competitor came out with the Spirit DataCine
in 1996.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
company, based in Ware, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
,SG12 0AE, link Cintel which specialises in the design and manufacture of professional post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of filmmaking and the video production process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art...
equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats. It was formerly part of the Rank Organisation
Rank Organisation
The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed during 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. It was the largest and most vertically-integrated film company in Britain, owning production, distribution and exhibition facilities....
.
Their main products are based on either cathode ray tube
Cathode ray tube
The cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun and a fluorescent screen used to view images. It has a means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam onto the fluorescent screen to create the images. The image may represent electrical waveforms , pictures , radar targets and...
(CRT) or charge coupled device (CCD) technology and include, like the diTTo, diTTo Evolution & dataMill film scanners.
Millennium II, Millennium HD & C-Reality & DSX telecine
Telecine
Telecine is transferring motion picture film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in the post-production process....
s, imageMill 1 & 2 image processing system.
Many movies and TV shows for TV were transferred from film to TV on Cintel Telecines. Cintel saw reduced sales when their competitor came out with the Spirit DataCine
Spirit DataCine
Spirit DataCine is a telecine and/or a motion picture film scanner. This device is able to transfer 16mm and 35mm motion picture film to NTSC or PAL standards or one of many High-definition television standards. With the data transfer option a Spirit DataCine can output DPX data files. The Spirit...
in 1996.
History
- 1927 John Logie BairdJohn Logie BairdJohn Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube...
founds the Baird Television Company, which later becomes Cinema-Television and then Cintel. - During the Second World War, Cintel supplies thousands of specialist photoelectric cells, and cathode ray tubeCathode ray tubeThe cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun and a fluorescent screen used to view images. It has a means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam onto the fluorescent screen to create the images. The image may represent electrical waveforms , pictures , radar targets and...
s for the war effort. - 1950 The first flying spot telecine was installed at the BBC's Lime Grove StudiosLime Grove StudiosLime Grove Studios was a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named Lime Grove, inShepherd's Bush, west London, north of Hammersmith and described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country...
. - 1958 Cinema-Television Limited was renamed Rank Cintel Limited.
- 1946 TMk1 shown using a polygonal prism system, it was the first 35mm continuous Motion Flying Spot Telecine.
- 1964 The model Mk II Telecine with twin lens was shown it supported both 35mm and 16mm.
- The Model Mk III used a new system called jump scan.
- 1987 the model MK IIIB was shown it used a progressive scan CRT and a Digiscan system to make SDTV.
- Mk IIIC was the next generation Digiscan, with improvements
- 1989 the Ursa 4:2:2 with D1D1-Science and technology:* D1 , an early digital video recording format* D1 , a 80-floor residential building currently under construction in Dubai...
color space output was shown. - 1993 the Ursa Gold with 4:4:4 output was shown.
- 1993 the Rank Cintel Mk III with HDTV high definition was shown.
- 1997 the Ursa Diamond, with many third-party improvements added was shown.
- OSCAR was added as an optical dust and scratch removal system for their telecines.
- C-Reality was a HD telecine with a Data option for DI work.
- 2002 the DSX telecine HD and Data was shown.
- 2002 Cintel acquired Innovation TK, including the Millennium HD and Data Telecine.
- 2003 Cintel launches GRACE, an internal Film Grain Reducer option for C-Reality and DSX machines
- Millennium II
- 2004 they shown the dataMill fast data scanner based on Millennium 2 technology
- 2004 the GRACE system was shown as an external film grain reducer
- Millennium HD
- ImageMill 1 (video)
- 2005 diTTo - was shown as a low end 2K data scanner, with a 3K native sensor
- diTTo Evolution
- ImageMill 2 ( data)
External links and Ref.
- usedtelecine.com
- Digital Content Producer Millimeter, A Brief History of Film-to-Tape: With DTV and HDTV-What's Next?, Feb 1, 1998, by .W. Leitner http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_brief_history_filmtotape
- A Brief History for Colorists from finalcolor.com http://www.finalcolor.com/history4colorists.htm
- The History of Television, 1942 to 2000 By Albert Abramson, Christopher H. Sterling http://books.google.com/books?id=TOMOmmrvwCcC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=Cintel+history+crt+rank&source=bl&ots=WuBFIesYoz&sig=bgEyt87bMZ9Uwivj113rZj2OmWQ&hl=en&ei=4LKvTP72LIHSsAO4wJz9Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Cintel%20history%20crt%20rank&f=false