Cintel

Cintel was a British digital cinema company founded in 1927 by John Logie Baird and based in Ware, Hertfordshire.

It specialized in the design and manufacture of professional post-production equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats.

[1] Along with a line of telecines, Rank Cintel made 3 tube RGB color video projectors in the 1960s.

Their main products were based on either cathode ray tube (CRT) Flying-spot scanner or charge-coupled device (CCD) technology.

ITK founded in 1994, also made upgrade products include the TWiGi system, the SCAN’dAL and the Y-Front.

Rank Cintel Mark 3
Cintel URSA Diamond
Cintel C-Reality Film Deck
The parts of a flying spot scanner: (A) Cathode-ray tube (CRT); (B) photon beam; (C) & (D) dichroic mirrors; (E), (F) & (G) red-, green- and blue-sensitive photomultipliers.
Innovation TK Ltd Millennium Machine
Innovation TK Y-Front Telecine