'Star' to be born in new light

May 23, 2008 Motion Picture Imaging is restoring George Cukor's 1954 "A Star Is Born" in 6K resolution. The film, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, is believed to be the first restoration project where the scanning, restoration work and mastering will be completed at that resolution. Technical Operations, said that the facility's reason to go to higher resolution was because The original camera negative contains more information than 2K, though 2K is today's typical display resolution.

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