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Some of the latest high-level projects that we have been working on... |
Historical Documentary on the East Rochester Piano Works Media Transfer Service, in conjunction with ERCN TV-12, is producing a video documentary on the history of East Rochester's Piano Works. In existence for over 100 years, the Piano Works was the world's largest producer of high-quality pianos, at one point producing over 30,000 pianos each year. Media Transfer Service will be scanning the collection of original photos held at East Rochester's Department of Local History to digital archive. These scans will then be incorporated into the video which will then be combined with interviews and historical narrative. All video and audio post work will be done at MTS. Project completion slated for Summer/Fall 2009. For more information on East Rochester History CLICK HERE Rochester Radio History Collection at St. John Fisher College. Our latest project with St. John Fisher College is conversion to digital file archive of unique reel to reel audiotapes and transcription disk recordings of historic moments and interviews with some of the most well known names in Rochester's Radio History. This collection was given to St. John Fisher College by Lowell MacMillan and Bob Givens. These one-of-a-kind recordings include interviews with Mort Nusbaum, Jack Slattery, Nick Nickson, Eddie Meath, Dorothy Cotton, Margot Gram, Carl Dengler, and Irvin Lyke (to name a few). They describe the evolution of their careers and what both Rochester and radio were like when they were working. This project will be a multi-year commitment and the final content will be held at St. John Fisher's Lavery Library. For more information about this collection CLICK HERE ERCN TV-12. East Rochester Community News TV-12, is a very prolific cable access station in East Rochester. Over the past 15 years, the all-volunteer station has produced over 700 hours of unique programming on S-VHS videotape. These programs include interviews with townsfolk, interviews with businesses, golfing shows, cooking shows, special events, historical and seasonal programming. Since the switchover to digital content programming in 2005, ERCN was unable to run these old programs. ERCN commissioned MTS for a multi-year project to convert its analog videotape library to digital video disk for their archives and for rebroadcast. ERCN's current broadcast coverage includes households in both East Rochester and Pittsford, Thursday through Saturday on Time Warner cable channel 12. For more information about ERCN TV-12 CLICK HERE "A Day At The Car Shops" Media Transfer Service was contracted by the East Rochester Department of Local History to convert the only existing 16mm motion picture film of the East Rochester Car Shops to digital format for both content preservation and production of a 1 hour special to run on local cable access stations throughout Monroe County. In its heyday, the Car Shops produced an astounding 36 finished railway cars a day from its 200 acre plant. The program guides the viewer through the production facility and the railway car construction process. It is an accurate representation of what it was like to work in the Car Shops in 1951, when the film was originally shot. MTS first transferred the film to digital format. Then in post it was enhanced, edited and music/titling added. All work was preformed in-house at MTS. More details on this program can be seen at this link to the R-News special report. CLICK HERE Slide conversion to digital file for professional photographer Neil Montanus. For over 30 years, one of the most popular and well known in-house photographers for the Eastman Kodak Company was Neil Montanus. Among other achievements, Neil is responsible for taking over 70 pictures that were displayed on Kodak's Colorama at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. He also was commissioned to take Walt Disney's and Gerald Ford's official portrait. We have been working with Neil on an ongoing basis, to convert the slide library of his life's work to archive-level digital scans. Some of Neil's work can be seen at his website CLICK HERE Media Transfer Service, LLC. Rochester, NY . Phone: 585-248-4908 . Email: info@mediatransferservice.com |