“He always used to say, ‘I never invent for invention’s sake I’m committed to solving people’s problems.’ However, being a pioneer, he was solving problems even before people had them.” Mike Inchalik, a longtime collaborator and president of Lowry Digital Images, said Lowry “could see the path that the industry was going to take based on where technology was going and where storytellers were trying to take their art.” 11 for the development of the Lowry System. Lowry’s death came less than two weeks after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Lowry, Cavén, Ian Godin, Kimball Thurston and Tim Connolly would be honored at the Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony Feb. “This has been the most gratifying part of my entire career.”
“The biggest kick for me is to solve one of these absolutely unsolvable problems,” Lowry told Canada’s Globe and Mail in 2006. In 2009, the company also restored footage sent back to Earth from Apollo 11 in 1969, including Neil Armstrong’s first step onto the lunar surface, as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the historic mission.
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The Lowry System also has been used to improve image quality in movies such as “Avatar” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and for repairing episodes of TV series, including an episode of “The West Wing” that had been damaged by X-ray exposure. The system has been used to restore more than 500 movies, including “Gone With the Wind,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Sunset Boulevard,” the James Bond series, the first three “Indiana Jones” movies, and Disney classics such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Bambi.”
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