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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 04, 2016 09:14 AM
Last month I got two prints of Sunday River Productions prints of the Norfolk and Western Railroad operating in Virginia coal country in the 1950s and I watched them last night.
They are great prints in wonderful shape. I have a feeling the source footage was 16mm Kodachrome and they are beautiful. It is obviously amateur footage: every so often there is an orange overexposure on one edge of frame from a little unintended light getting at the film.
Even if you set aside the trains, these are like a window into day to day life in 1950s small town America: the clothes, the cars, people still traveling by passenger train in the first place.
There you have 1950s people standing on the platform waiting for their train to pull in. The man is wearing suit and tie, The woman is in a dress. They both have hats on. They are about to take a journey in a smoky, sooty, coal-dusted vehicle and they are better dressed than I am at most job interviews!
It looks a little high maintenance to me, but I have a feeling they'd think we're slobs! [ August 04, 2016, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 08, 2016 12:33 PM
We just watched "Silver Dream Racer" (400ft scope Derann) last night. I had completely forgotten that it was in our collection. In my opinion, this was a case of a digest being MUCH better than the full feature, (I'm sure that there are other opinions, of course, and I respect thiers as well), and this was a very nice LONG 400ft release, (almost coming to the very edge of the 400ft reel, probably about 21 or so minutes.
We also watched the scope cartoons ...
Bearly Asleep (Disney/Donald) Bar B. Cue Brawl (M.G.M. Tom and Jerry)
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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