In 1986, Barry Sandrew left a good job as a staff neuroscientist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital to work in the movie business.
His first company colorized old black-and-white films — a process Sandrew invented. He later developed with partner Greg Passmore a new technology for converting 2-D movies into 3-D films. That led him to found Legend3D, which today employs about 300 workers in Carlsbad and a similar number in India turning 2-D films into 3-D movies.