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Author Topic: Print your own films...literally? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-02-2007 03:07 AM                     This guy is nuts. link  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-02-2007 03:16 AM                     Nuts, maybe, but never say die ... quite amazing in itself.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-02-2007 03:16 PM                       Gerard, paper prints were the first thought that popped in my mind, after seeing this. quote: Brad Miller This guy is nuts. I'll say! He needs a perforator.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged

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