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 | | But Les only smiled and talk soon turned, as it always did when we spent time together, to the growth of the lab and his staff—he was extremely proud of having a major hand in their training. |
 | | The lab’s first big break came in 1977, when the Thai government raised the import duty on movie prints to 30 baht a meter to "protect the local film industry." The subsequent Motion Picture Association of America boycott of Thailand provided the company with a window of opportunity. |
 | | In addition to the services Cinecolor offered, which included front-end processing and release printing, digital video post-production and sound mixing, regional subtitling, video-to-film transfer and digital optical sound transfer, the lab now falls in line with Technicolor’s broader spectrum of 1) content creation, 2) manufacturing, 3) distribution, 4) exhibition and 5) preservation and restoration. |
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