the flash temp is conventionally understood as 40 degrees centigrade. I
keep some in metal tins lined with fireboard (dry liner, plasterboard) in
a darkroom and keep an eye on temp. During the heatwave in uk this year
the air temp got to about 26. If it combusts the problem is more
containing it, ie not letting the fire spread and cause more damage.
I bought a rank slide projector on ebay recently and when i opened it it
had a small slide reel about camping that was on nitrate...!
lots depends on its condition. if image looks good no reason to destroy
it.
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Mandar Gotad wrote:
You can do film scanning
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 16:18 mstark...@gmail.com <mstark...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have three reels of 35mm suspected as nitrate and confirmed by my local
film archive recently. They want to dispose
safely of the film via a third party… And don’t recommend that it is
taken back into a domestic environment as they told me
it will invalidate my house insurance. I’m torn between recklessly
wanting it back to set fire to myself (!) and document
as an artwork. I have very little idea what is on it apart from it’s
1920s (and presumably not thought to be significant if
the archive want to destroy it). It’s not in bad condition and has just
been sitting in my studio for the last three years.
I suddenly panicked about it spontaneously combusting after watching Bill
Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time, which
includes lots of footage of film setting on fire!
Any recommendations, thoughts, warnings, advice from an artist filmmaker
perspective, rather than an archival perspective,
are welcomed.
Mary
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