Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Print your own films...literally?

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-02-2007, 03:07 AM:

This guy is nuts.

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 05-02-2007, 03:16 AM:

Nuts, maybe, but never say die ... quite amazing in itself.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-02-2007, 04:19 AM:

He is a fool. He should have printed 35mm with Dolby Digital sound and cut out the perfs and film with a Swiss Army Knife.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-02-2007, 04:25 AM:

I wonder if this technique could be developed into a cheaper method of producing film prints than photochemical printing?

Posted by Caleb Johnstone-Cowan (Member # 3710) on 05-02-2007, 02:12 PM:

How did I miss Kodachrome 40 being discontinued? Got a couple of spare cartridges luckily.

Anyway, how did the film get so badly damaged? Also think he should have tried black and white and/or animation, guessing if there's less detail to print the image will be clearer?

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 05-02-2007, 02:43 PM:

Thomas Edison managed to copyright his earliest films by sending $0.50 and a paper print copy of each one to the Library of Congress. Seems that was the way to copyright a still photograph, and lacking any rule for the new motion picture technology, he submitted each movie as a still "print."

The original nitrate negatives are long gone, but these paper prints preserve movie incunabula for us today--documentaries, comedies and mini-dramas of interest to film fans and historians.

Several hundred of these paper prints were photographed and printed onto projection positive 16mm film, and are viewable and downloadable free. I have a hard-cover catalog of films in this collection, by Edison and many others, offered in 16 mm for a reasonable fee a couple of decades ago from the Library of Congress.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-02-2007, 03:16 PM:

Gerard, paper prints were the first thought that popped in my mind, after seeing this. [Wink]

quote: Brad Miller
This guy is nuts.

I'll say! He needs a perforator. [Razz]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-02-2007, 03:56 PM:

quote: Caleb Johnstone-Cowan
How did I miss Kodachrome 40 being discontinued? Got a couple of spare cartridges luckily.

In which case sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you can bin the process paid mailers. Kodak shut down their Kodachrome processing lab in Switzerland last year (September I think). I believe the Widescreen Centre will process them for you, but that they charge around £15 a roll. If I were you I'd shoot them sooner rather than later, because as the existing stashes of unexposed Kodachrome out there dwindle, even the very few private labs which still process it are going to start discontinuing the service.