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Topic: Is everything being lost?
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David Pannell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1072
From: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted December 01, 2011 09:43 AM
I've been away from the circle for a few months, due to work comitments, plus the arrival of a new beautiful granddaughter to our son Ross and his wife Caroline.
So, I'm sorry to have returned to what would seem doom and gloom in our hobby - with the demise of Derann, and now the Kodak news! Is everything going, I wonder?
Once all the dust settles, it would be encouraging to try to re-group, so to speak, and see where our supplies can be obtained on a reliable basis - I'm particularly referring to filmstock for shooting.
Anyway, now that I'm back in the fold, I shall once again be following all posts.
Kindest regards to all,
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Dave.
Valves and celluloid - a great combination!
Early technology rules OK!
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David Pannell
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted December 02, 2011 06:39 AM
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your response. The home cinema is progressing - albeit rather slowly, due to the afore mentioned reasons. Plus, I am trying to accelerate my semi-retirement; we have now moved out of our business premises, and, during the winding down process, we are temporarily using the home cinema area as an office/study.
However, not withstanding that, I am pleased to say that I have managed to complete all the necessary electrical wiring for the cinema - with all wires and cables hidden, - running through cavity walls and in the roof space etc.
Hopefully in another few months, things will have progressed even further; but at least it is now possible, during these dark evenings, to screen some films without having to run cables etc. around the room each time, even if it is in a somewhat temporary environment, and having to move the odd desk out of the way.
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Dave.
Valves and celluloid - a great combination!
Early technology rules OK!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 07, 2011 12:54 PM
Yep, we lose everything in the end.
I may have mentioned this before, but I have always been struck by what happened to my grandparents, (as well as to so many others) ...
When I was a kid, they had this immense house on a hill overlokking Tigard, Oregon. It had big open fields, with immense balckberry bush hedges and they had tons of stuff "squirreled" away in that three level house.
But by the time I went over to Portland Oregon to go to college, They had sold that house years ago and were now living in a retirement community. Sure, they had a lot of thier stuff, but they had to get rid of a lot too. After all, they only had so much room..
In those four years of college, I saw my grandmother's dimensia get progressively worse, and they eventually moved into an assisted living arangement with automatic locking doors, (as grandma would now wander off), and so, they're "stuff" lessened even more, just enough to fit into that small two room apartment.
Grandma succumbed to dimensia and grandpa was left alone. By the time he was a week from passing, he had ...
one 19n inch TV ...
a little boombox ...
a few items of clothes ...
... that were left to him. Everything else they had spent thier lives amassing, was gone. Oh, a little bit was given to family, but most of it, gone.
That "lesson" has never left me, and it does shape my life immensely. While I do have one thing that I have amassed, (my film collection) my wife, son and myself have little else, but we like it that way, and see no reason to keep up with the "Jones" ... Let them kill themselves young working like dogs just to get the newest "tech" or cars every other year or so.
Were happy with our beat up van, our manufactured home, (hey!, it's paid off and if it was to burn down, we'd just buy another cheapie!)
as you can't take a single thing with you ...
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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David Pannell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1072
From: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted December 08, 2011 02:26 AM
How very true, Osi! Words of wisdom indeed! Less is more!
We tend to operate in the same vein as you obviously do, with only a few treasured items, which hopefully will be passed down through the family.
Too, we have seen exactly the same thing happen to my wife's parents; and what was so important for them to strive for and obtain, is as nothing. Not only with possessions, but with petty annoyances etc. which really got under their skin, and on which they wasted a lot of time and energy - all to no avail in the end!
Thanks for sharing the positive thinking.
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Dave.
Valves and celluloid - a great combination!
Early technology rules OK!
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