Antonio Pannolino's new film  The Red Carpet  has revolutionised the film-making world, with the introduction of a new system called Liquid Plasma Camera Technology (LPCT). Invented by Antonio's brother Carlo, in Rome, in the mid-90's, LPCT is an ingenious way of transferring a photographic image from the camera lens to any format of conventional film, via an enhanced low temperature plasma substitute. Thus enabling high quality images to be transmitted from remote camera heads, and ultra-miniature photographic devices, onto film, without having to resort to low quality video or electronic means, which would otherwise degrade the resulting images. A new form of liquid compression known as LPEG 2, is used to transfer each image (at 24fps for cinema use, although frame rates of up to 80fps are possible with the current system, and with extra cooling devices added) as an image substrated molecular clone, from the modified camera gate, down a tube, passing through a silicon iodide Strangttz filament filter (copyright Harris-Dufay Corp.1995) for image stability and completing its journey at a standard 16, 35 or 65mm film magazine incorporating an LPCT silver halide molecular morpher, thus transferring the image directly onto the photographic film in the magazine. The film can then be processed by a normal film laboratory, albeit with a slightly modified CR92a process.

The idea itself is not new, having been discovered by NASA in the early 70's and used for early prototypes of rocket motor, due to it's inherently high energy transfer rate. However, it was abandoned after almost a decade of research in favour of other more efficient propulsion systems. In 1994, Carlo Pannolino, an ex-NASA scientist, found it had ideal properties for the transferral of molecularly morphed images, and began experimenting with camera devices using the new technology. After perfecting the system, his brother Antonio decided to use the LPCT camera in his production, along side conventional 35mm Wiggyflex 69s, for the secret filming of George, the star of his new film The Red Carpet. Antonio has produced an exciting and revolutionary new style of film-making, and is bring hailed in his home country of Italy as the founder of the new 'Ultra Cinema-Verita' movement.

For the more technically minded, a booklet containing technical specifications and an insight into the science behind the new LPCT is available from the producers; though some areas of the design are secret, subject to patents pending.

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