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...basic techniques used by the two coloring firms are similar. First an electronic scanner breaks each frame of the film into an array of 525,000 separate dots that can be stored in the computer. Then an art director reviews the first frame of a given scene and selects a specific color for every object on the screen. A computer operator, using a digital graphics tablet and an electronic palette, hand-paints the image according to the art director's instructions, much like a child filling in a paint-by-the-numbers picture. Then the computer takes over, coloring...
...About $50,000 of the salvor's initial investment went for one indispensable tool: side-scanning sonar of the type used by U.S. Navy ships searching for Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the Sea of Japan last year. Mounted in a torpedo-shaped housing, the side-scanner emits pulses horizontally as well as vertically. It is towed behind a search ship, which methodically crisscrosses a designated area, to produce a detailed chart of the sea floor. By studying the "hits" on charts, an experienced technician can pick out possible ship ruins. "We found eleven targets in the first...
Trailed behind a ship like a side-scanner, a magnetometer will record such objects even if they are buried in sediment...
...finished picture in TIME'S U.S. printing plants to as little as 6¼ hours. Immediately after an important shot, the film was processed and edited, then flown twelve miles by helicopter to Torrance, Calif., where Time Inc.'s corporate manufacturing and distribution division had installed a scanner to turn the pictures into digital signals. These were beamed by satellite to New York City, where they were reassembled on a video monitor. After review by TIME'S editors, the final selections were retransmitted to the printing sites. To Technical Director John Mitchell, the new system...
...Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...