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Greg Mueller
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From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-16-2001 11:38 AM

I can see then, how a projector like the Kinoton "E" with it's stepper motor drive could be pretty slick for all the different applications

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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
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posted 12-17-2001 08:47 AM

Mark Lensenmayer writes:

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I asked James Katz about it at a presentation of REAR WINDOW, and he said the negatives were at Warners, but were in very bad shape. I've also heard that most of the negative was OK, but one of the reels had been laquered, making it unusable. I hope these new reports are reliable.

I'd be very surprised if the lacquering makes it totally unprintable. After all, Harris and Katz were able to salvage an astonishingly good colour balance out of the very badly faded 'Vertigo' negatives, and I'm sure that similar miracles could be worked here, if someone is willing to throw enough money at the problem. The lacquer may have altered the colour cast of the negatives, or deformed the base or made it brittle, and there are ways of getting round all of these problems, but they ain't cheap. The 'Vertigo' restoration cost over $2 million, and I guess the executives who signed the cheque realised that something with Hitchcock's name on it couldn't fail to make that back, and more.

With 'Around the World' the risk would be quite a bit greater (although admittedly peanuts compared with the tens of millions that most new features cost to produce from scratch).

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Pete Naples
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From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 12-17-2001 05:00 PM

I install and look after a lot of art house venues. Normally we fit the machine with a three phase motor, install a Fenner inverter somewhere convenient, and with a little rotary switch on the pedestal you can select whatever speed it's been programmed to run at. The usual range is from 12 to 25 fps for 35mm, and 24, 25 and 30 fps for 70mm.

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Dick Vaughan
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From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
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posted 12-18-2001 02:59 AM

Pete

Just wondered why the 25fps speed for 70mm?

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