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Topic: Availability of 9.5mm films.....
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Mikael Barnard
Film Handler
Posts: 85
From: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, UK
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted November 17, 2011 04:08 PM
Hi Clinton. One of the things to remember with 9.5 is that, with a few exceptions, new prints all but stopped after 1959. Films of other gauges are more common partly because they all blossomed to a larger extent than 9.5 (i.e. more prints were made), partly because they were made for longer. As a result the prints that were made have also had longer to end up with collectors who are keen to hang onto them in the long term, 9.5 sound films are a particular case in point. Also projectors for the other gauges continued to be readily available from new long after this had ceased to be the case for 9.5.
The other thing with 9.5 is that, whilst scarcer than the 'common' gauges, there are even greater gulfs of scarcity within the gauge itself. A 30ft Mickey Mouse cassette can be had far easier than a notched print of Napoleon. It all depends what you want to collect on 9.5 as much as anything.
In some ways the Internet may prove to be a bit of a saving grace for film, a significant number of people were using the 'common' gauges in the home well into the 1980s, this means that they've had comparatively less time to sit in boxes under eventual threat of being chucked out. If people had a few films 9.5 films kicking about in, say, 1965 it was much easier to just chuck them in the bin than take them physically to a trader/second hand shop/list them in a mag. Nowadays it just takes a few clicks on a button and a box of old film can be up on eBay, an option not available when 9.5 'finished' as a mainstream format.
If you think 9.5 is a challenge don't even get started on 17.5, 28 etc!
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