Glasgow firm to ‘revolutionise’ archive films

A GLASGOW company is set to “revolutionise” the way that archive film footage is saved and viewed after attracting investment from a syndicate.

Run by husband and wife team Michael and Linda Howell and advised by law firm Harper Macleod, iMetafilm has now been backed by £217,000 from business syndicate Kelvin Capital and the Scottish Investment Bank.

Archive footage of the real life Christopher Robin at the age of nine. The storage and presentation of such footage could be 'revolutionised' by a new Glasgow-based firm. Picture: PAplaceholder image
Archive footage of the real life Christopher Robin at the age of nine. The storage and presentation of such footage could be 'revolutionised' by a new Glasgow-based firm. Picture: PA

The company has developed “game-changing technology” to digitise film stock and make the resultant footage fully searchable.

The founders believe their product could place Scotland at the heart of a new film digitisation industry as it brings new life to some of the world’s estimated 50 millions reels of film.

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