Cintel was a Britishdigital cinema company founded in 1927 byJohn Logie Baird and based inWare,Hertfordshire. The early company was calledCinema Television Ltd. Cinema Television was sold to J Arthur Rank Organization renamed Rank Cintel in 1958. It specialized in the design and manufacture of professionalpost-production equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats. It was formerly part of theRank Organisation.[1] Along with a line oftelecines, Rank Cintel made 3 tube RGB color video projectors in the 1960s.
Cintel URSA DiamondCintel C-Reality Film DeckThe parts of a flying spot scanner: (A)Cathode-ray tube (CRT); (B) photon beam; (C) & (D) dichroic mirrors; (E), (F) & (G) red-, green- and blue-sensitive photomultipliers.
Many movies and TV shows for TV were transferred from film to TV on Cintel Telecines. Cintel saw reduced sales with the introduction ofSpirit DataCine in 1996. The business was in administration until its announced liquidation. On 24 July 2012Blackmagic Design acquired the assets of Cintel.[5]
1950 The first flying spot telecine was installed at the BBC'sLime Grove Studios.
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.
1967 The Flying Spot Color Slide Scanner made, with two slides with manual changeover.
1975 The Model Mk III used a new system called jump scan Analog.
1977 The first Rank Cintel Flying Spot Scanner was introduced into North America by MPV, (Motion Picture Video Corporation, Toronto) and the first colorist and pan & scan operator was the then president Bob Sher.
1977 Mk IIIC was the next generation Digiscan, with improvements
1980 Cintel introduced the Ferrit Sound Follower for double system separate magnetic sound.
1982 ADS-1 a CCD Telecine shown
1987 the model MK IIIB was shown it used a progressive scan CRT and a Digiscan system to makeSDTV.
1987 ADS-2 a CCD Telecine shown
1987 MK3C Digiscan with 4 4:2:2 outputs and Ref Frame
1988 ADS-8 CCD slide scanner with standard Kodak slide carousels.
1988 the Rank Cintel Mk III withHDTV high definition was shown at the International Broadcasting Convention in Brighton, England.
1989 the Ursa 4:2:2 with D1 color space output was shown.
1993 the Ursa Gold with 4:4:4 output 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 thedataMill 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
