Hi all

Thanks for all the responses. Very encouraging. I’m waiting to here back from 
the archive who currently have the films and will update you when I know more!

All best,

Mary
On 15 Dec 2018, at 20:19, Larry Urbanski <lar...@urbanskifilm.com> wrote:

> I'm quite curious as to the title or content of this nitrate film. Although 
> one archive may not want it, another might. I've sent nitrate to the LOC 
> several times, and I know  other archives had footage (it was a Chaplin film, 
> Those Love Pangs), but the LOC still wanted it for their collection.
> Larry
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> On 12/12/2018 6:31 AM, 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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