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CREDITS / AWARDS

NT Awards

2008 SMPTE Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award

SMPTE presented Shawn with the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award to for his many years of focusing on optical negative recording and multi-format digital mastering.

SMPTE cited Shawn’s career with Sony where he assisted in the development of the SDDS format, receiving a patent for his contributions and his most recent projects and accomplishments at NT including a new laser recording system for optical sound tracks and the design and construction of NT’s quality control theater for which he also received a patent.

The SMPTE Award was presented on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood.

SHAWN JONES, CHIEF ENGINEER, CTO — 2007 Academy Award for Scientific and Technical achievements

Shawn received an Academy Award in the Scientific and Technical Category for the Environmental Film Initiative, along with other industry colleagues, for contributions to the cyan movement, an industry-wide environmental effort to eliminate silver from 35mm film release prints.

Previously, analog soundtracks were applied to release prints by a silver application procedure. This process required millions of gallons of water per year along with tons of caustic and hazardous chemicals. Through many years of diligence and efforts a film industry committee worked to coordinate a switch from the silver process to pure dye cyan soundtracks. Theater exhibitors also had to be persuaded to equip theatres with the required red light readers to play back the cyan dye soundtracks. For these accomplishments the Academy recognized and honored the group.

Scientific and Technical Awards are given for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures that also have a proven history of use in the motion picture industry.

The Scientific and Technical Academy Awards were presented at the Beverly Wilshire hotel on Saturday, February 10, 2007.

TOM MCCORMICK, PRESIDENT — 2004 SMPTE Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award

This prestigious award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the design and development of new and improved methods and/or apparatus for sound-on-film motion pictures, including any step in the process.

In 2004 SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) presented Tom McCormick, president and founder of NT Audio Video Film Labs, with the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award to for his work in optical soundtrack recording. SMPTE cited Tom’s over two decades of pioneering work in half speed recording and multi-format digital mastering which has seen the production of millions of feet of high quality recordings of hundreds of titles: a testament to his engineering abilities.