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Digitally Restoring the Trilogy for DVD
September 30, 2003


For its debut on DVD, the Indiana Jones trilogy had to look better than ever. The incredible picture quality of the DVD format delivers crystal-clear detail and rich colors ... but it's only as good as the source material from which the DVDs are made.
Films do not last forever. Their photochemical nature, coupled with the wear and tear of exhibition or mishandling, often takes a toll on classic films. Thankfully, DVD promises a permanent record of films in pristine quality. But repairing the ravages of time isn't easy. That's where Lowry Digital Images comes into the picture.

"People say film lasts a long, long time, but in fact, movies do deteriorate relatively rapidly," says John Lowry, the company's founder. Burbank, Calif.-based Lowry Digital Images has restored a number of classic films for home video and, in some cases, theatrical re-release. "The quality of the image is very much a function of how well the film has been handled over the years."

Lowry Digital has been erasing the signs of age from classic movies since 1998. Paramount Pictures has entrusted the company with some of the most cherished films in its vaults, including Sunset Boulevard and Roman Holiday ?and now the adventures of Indiana Jones.

"We are basically in the business of restoring, cleaning up and extracting information from motion images," Lowry explains. "We've done 60 films in the last three years, many of which are well known." A large percentage of the classics that Lowry Digital has restored date from the time the Indiana Jones movies are set ?not from the 1980s, when these movies were released. Relatively speaking, then, the Indy films were easier to work with.

"There were still a few challenges, but it was much easier than doing a film from the '30s, '40s or'50s," Lowry says. "The films were, in our opinion, in quite good shape compared to most. Raiders, though, had a very serious scratch on about 30-some-odd-thousand frames and a blue line that was right across all the faces and eyes of the actors. That proved to be an interesting challenge."