Those old prints won't last forever. They should be digitised and cleaned up so that people can continue to enjoy the movies for the next few centuries. The film prints should be locked up in an archive.
I had a conversation about this just yesterday with one of my neighbours. He was asking about my French cinema classes and I talked about how valuable they are from many different perspectives. When I was a student French cinema was not on the curriculum, we just did language, literature, and linguistics. Even if it had been part of the syllabus, the range of movies on offer would have been minuscule because we could only have watched them as a group, on film, which is expensive, fragile and bulky, and would have had to be circulated to other courses around the country. Nowadays, whatever we study I can either find locally in a shop, or order from amazon.fr, or even watch as a download, sometimes for free. To support his classes the teacher shows clips on Youtube of related material, something that would be impossible without digitisation. >From the film-makers' point of view I imagine digital is also much better. Far >cheaper, no loss of quality, easier production and, which is important, a very >low cost of entry for new directors. The medium is not the message. B On 16 Jun 2013, at 02:06, "John Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes me wonder how a little cinema at a very small town called Pomona in > Queensland will fare. > Their speciality is showing silent films, and films from the '30's, so of > course they still have > film projection and sound equipment. > Makes those old prints something to be cherished even more... > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms > Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013 11:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Non-news story of the day: Kodak not making acetate > > That brings up another thing ... > > There used to be a theater around here that would play those films. It's gone. > > There's still one over in Durham that does a couple of "film festivals" > every year which might include this film, but you can't just buy a ticket to > see the one film in the > festival you might want to watch, you have to buy a package for the whole > thing and the prices are > outrageously inflated. > > I mean "gold circle" seats for a Rolling Stones tour inflated! > > Unless it gets posted to YouTube or I happen to see the DVD at the checkout > one night when I'm > buying groceries, I'm not going to see that "film". > > From: Darren Addy >> I imagine that there is *a lot* of film being put in freezers by some >> people in Hollywood (which would be sort of artificially inflating the >> demand seen right now), but yeah - the writing is on the wall. If you >> haven't yet seen the documentary "Side by Side" I highly recommend it. >> Trailer and outtakes here: >> Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1l1NgQH4s >> Outtakes playlist: http://goo.gl/gimEu >> >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Mark Roberts >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>>> From: Mark Roberts >>>>> There's a bit of panic going around the web as Kodak has announced >>>>> they're going to cease manufacture of acetate film base. They're >>>>> not stopping FILM production, they're just no longer manufacturing >>>>> their own acetate to make it with. >>>> >>>> That's kind of ironic, because I thought Kodak had stopped making >>>> film a year or so back. >>> >>> They stopped production of all slide film about a year and a half ago. >>> Now it's just B&W negative and color negative film. The motion >>> picture industry is all that's keeping the production lines running >>> enough to be profitable now. When movies go all digital that'll >>> probably be the end for film. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
