3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
9:30 p.m.
Thanks for all the suggestions. This film definitely needs professional
attention and may be too far gone to save, but I will try.
I've contacted the National Film Preservation board, and also SMPTE for
their ideas., but would still be interested in talking to others. Jim,
please contact your film editor and have him contact me, I get down to
LA all the time so could bring the film down there to have someone
evaluate it if I can't find someone local.
One problem is I don't know what the film actually contains, if it's
really interesting at all. It needs to be viewed, even if it's one frame
at a time on a Movieola type machine, to see what it's actually about.
Could be just an ad for RCA that mentions the 501, but with the label
"RCA 501 demonstration" on the cover it's sure worth a look.
Bob
National Film Preservation Board
jim wrote:
Richard wrote:
In article <Pine.GSO.4.55.0702022327210.8730
at helios.cs.csubak.edu>,
David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> writes:
I have a film editor who works for NBC in los angeles. If you would
like for
me to contact him, I'll do so and connect you to him. He also
collects film
industry memorabilia, and probably can connect you with someone who can
restore nitrate substrate film. This should be done asap, as it may
already
be too far gone to be restored if it is putting off acetic acid
fumes. this is
just one component of decaying substrate, and is the one which erases the
image from the film.
Remember, the image is not a dye image totally but may contain silver
which
is very reactive, and having acid fumes present from decaying
substrate doesn't
make for a long time line to act to save it.
jim