From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello all,
you know, ARSCLIST is not the list for this problem; we have to know the
limits of our good advice. RANK Telecines are marvellous machines, SONDOR is
fabulous, etc., but we are in a completely different league here. We here
have historic footage on a support (probably cellulose di-acetate) that may
suffer innumerable problems, the least of which is shrinkage. To handle that
you need machines in which any part that handles sprocket holes is suitably
undersized. The list with the greatest concentration of knowledge (apart from
FIAF) is the one run by the Association of Moving Image Archivists:
http://www.amianet.org/
But Laura Krasnow has given most valuable advice already in her earlier mail
dated 17 June 2010, and do not try to better it by "If you can pay the $$$,
it's much better to get it frame-by frame scanned to hi-def". Or: "An HD
telecine is probably the best route to go". This is definitely not the first
step.
> You really have to make sure that the place you deal with works with
> old film...do not use anyplace that digitizes film..they will destroy
> the original.
>
> Laura Krasnow
>
Kind regards,
George
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