Yes, also ironic, given many labs and post-production facilities would junk their old gear rather than sell it in working condition, in case it was bought by a rival firm,
Nicky. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ball <cbifi...@gmail.com> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Sent: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:25 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] "Complete Plant Liquidation of Deluxe La boratories, Inc.’s. Hollywood Film Process ing Facility. One of the World’s Largest Film Processing and Facilities" Probably most of it went to metal recyclers....such a shame. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Nicholas Kovats <nkov...@gmail.com> wrote: Indeed. But I should have read more carefully. The auction notice was from last year. I wonder how it was parceled out? On Monday, April 6, 2015, Nicky Hamlyn <nicky.ham...@talktalk.net> wrote: Ironic, considering the first thing Deluxe did after buying Soho Film Lab in London was to cease 16mm printing. That's what precipitated Tacita Dean's save film campaign. Nicky. ---- Nicholas Kovats wrote ---- The auction title says it all. Over 1032 individual lots and starts on June 3. Sad to see, i.e. http://www.hgpauction.com/auctions/60587/deluxe/ The complete catalog, i.e. https://hgpauction.hibid.com/catalog/43298/deluxe-labs. My hope is that some of the remaining labs are able to raise sufficient capital to make use of some portion of this huge former operation. _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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