Legend Films

Legend Films, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Film and television
Founded	August 2001
Founder	Barry B. Sandrew
Headquarters	San Diego, California, United States
Key people	Brian Robertson, CEO Barry B. Sandrew, CCO/CTO Ian Gessel, President Thomas Sinnott, COO Matt Akey, Executive Producer Jared Sandrew, Creative Officer/VFX Supervisor Tony Baldridge, VFX Supervisor Matt DeJohn, VFX Supervisor
Products	Library of colorized and restored films and RiffTrax audio commentaries
Services	3D conversion of new release and catalog feature films, trailers, and commercials
Number of employees	290

Legend Films, a San Diego-based company, was founded in August 2001. The company specializes in the conversion of feature films, both new release and catalog titles, and commercials from their native 2D format into 3-D film format utilizing proprietary technology and software . The company started business providing restoration and colorization of classic black-and-white films for DVD, HDTV and theatrical release. However, with the refocusing of the company efforts to the 3D conversion business, the company officially changed names to Legend3D, Inc. in the summer of 2010.

Legend3D has performed 3D conversion on a number of high-profile projects including feature film work for Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Warner Bros., and Sony Imageworks, as well as commercial work for HP, Fanta, New Balance, and M&M/Mars, television work on television show "Chuck" and for MTV and special feature work for the Michael Jackson "This is it" concerts.

Legend3D also continues to support its legacy business, Legend Films Home Entertainment Distribution, produces and distributes DVDs of films and video content that have been colorized from their original black-and-white format. They spun off RiffTrax on July 3, 2012. RiffTrax is a business from the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000, that offers humorous audio commentaries. RiffTrax are available in MP3 files for films and DVDs for titles in the Legend Films library.

Legend Films' founder, Barry Sandrew, Ph.D. pioneered and patented the first all digital colorization technology in 1987 and then reinvented the process in 2000 by patenting the most advanced colorization technology that largely automates the process (Image sequence enhancement system and method – US Patent 7181081 [12]). Some of the works being colorized by Legend are films that have fallen into the public domain and are now copyrighted only in their colorized form in the United States, while their original copyright on the black-and-white version is still in force. Other movies in the Legend Films library are titles color produced in revenue sharing partnerships with the original copyright holder. Legend has colorized films owned by 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Paramount Home Entertainment. In less than three years, Legend Films has restored and colorized over 100 feature films in high definition or film resolution.