Rancho Cucamonga ,
CA , April 1, 2003 …CELCO (www.celco.com), the leader in digital film
recording systems, announced that Capital FX, London , England , has
purchased CELCO’s newest film recorder, the FURY. The FURY joins three
other CELCO film recorders already in use at Capital FX, and is the first
FURY installation in the European market.
Capital FX is a
digital and optical effects company offering a variety of services for
film post-production, and utilizes the latest technology in addition to
traditional film techniques. Capital FX specializes in front and end
titles, front-end visual effects work, trailers and foreign versions of
each as well. With CELCO film recorders, the company can accommodate all
digital film-out requirements on variable film stocks. Capital FX recently
merged with GSE, which was part of Deluxe London; the two facilities will
work closely together to provide traditional and digital services
throughout the UK and Europe .
Capital FX added the
FURY because of the increasing amount of output with complete short and
feature films from DV, Digi-beta, HD with S16 and S35 from data it was
receiving from clients. The FURY’s ability to use any film stock, plus
its quality and superior sharpness, were additional reasons why Capital FX
invested in the FURY. The four CELCO film recorders are set up on the same
system so that Capital FX can shoot the same data on all of them if
necessary.
Jim Davey, Director
of Digital Services at Capital FX, states, “We think the FURY is the
finest film recorder on the planet. It is so fast we watch in amazement;
we can get a day’s work completed in just over an hour! I have worked on
laser and CRT film recorders, and feel the look from the CELCO film
recorder is the closest to the original shot. The superior sharpness of
the FURY, combined with its unprecedented speed, has put us in front and
by a long way.” He continues, “We are still growing and have not
finished our expansion. Another FURY is in the pipeline and a scanning
system to encompass our current E-lab work.”
John Constantine,
Director of Marketing for CELCO, comments, “Capital FX’s clients in
the UK and Europe have demanding time schedules. Adding the FURY, which is
superior in both speed and sharpness to laser recorders, allows Capital FX
to not only meet these short time schedules but also provide the highest
quality images to their clientele.”
About CELCO:
CELCO was founded in
1950 by John M. Constantine Sr. as an engineering laboratory dedicated to
high resolution display technology. CELCO’s innovations in the field of
electron beam control soon made the company a leading producer of electron
optics including deflection yokes and focus coils used in high resolution
display systems. Its display components have been used for an abundance of
military and civilian applications in everything from fighter jets, flight
simulators, medical imaging systems, electron beam welders, to the space
shuttle. CELCO also became known for its lab standard test equipment
including high performance deflection amplifiers and precision display
systems. The technologies evolved into the production of complete digital
imaging systems starting in the 1970s with large format satellite imaging
systems to the first motion picture digital film recorder used for
Disney’s TRON in the early 1980s.
Clients have
included Fotokem, Post Logic, CapitalFX, Disney Feature Animation, PIXAR,
Industrial Light & Magic, Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Tippett
Studio, CFI/Technicolor, Double Negative, The Mill, Éclair Labs, AAV
Digital Pictures, and Klasky Csupo, just to name a few.
For further
information, contact CELCO, 10291 A Trademark Street, Rancho Cucamonga,
CA, 91730, USA, tel +1.909.481.4648, fax +1.909.481.6899, info@celco.com,
www.celco.com
