Optical Restoration of Faded 35mm Color Negative

Peter Kuran heads Visual Concept Engineering (VCE), an optical effects house he started at the age of 20. He began his career at George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic, where he worked on such films as Star Wars, Star Trek II and V, Robocop 1, 2, and 3, Addams Family, Addams Family Values, GhostBusters 2 , and Beetlejuice . Following Star Wars , he worked on ABC's “Battlestar Galactica” and the feature films The Dark and Piranha , among several others, before returning to ILM to begin effects on The Empire Strikes Back . He then returned to Los Angeles to develop his company full time, working on such films as The Howling, Airplane, and Dragon Slayer. VCE was responsible for the visual effects for Oliver Stone's Nixon and Ed Zwick's Courage Under Fire , and is currently working on TriStar Pictures' Starship Troopers. Kuran has recently completed his own 92-minute documentary film, Trinity and Beyond , which uses previously classified government footage on the creation and testing of the atomic and hydrogen bombs over a 20-year period. Kuran used the RCI system to recreate and preserve original color negatives of the government film.