• 1927
John Logie Baird founds the Baird Television Company, which later becomes Cinema-Television. • 1940
Gaumont-British acquires Cinema-Television. • 1941 The Rank Organisation takes control of Gaumont-British and Cinema-Television. • During the
Second World War, Cinema-Television supplies thousands of specialist
photoelectric cells, and
cathode ray tubes for the war effort. • 1945 Cinema-Television acquires
Bush Radio. • 1950 The first flying spot telecine was installed at the BBC's
Lime 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 make
SDTV. • 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 with
HDTV 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 the fast data scanner based on Millennium 2 technology • 2004 the GRACE system was shown as an external film grain reducer • Millennium HD • 1 (video) • 2005 diTTo - was shown as a low end 2K data scanner, with a 3K native sensor • diTTo Evolution • 2 ( data) • OCEAN controller ==Innovation TK==