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Topic: 35mm is the best!!!
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 525
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 23, 2009 08:42 PM
I collect 35mm and 70mm film, but still have a couple of titles in Super 8mm (mostly for the novelty). I never got into 16mm. I just couldn't stomach the bad mono sound.
35mm need not take up a lot of storage room. The trick is simple...6000 foot reels. If you store your prints on 2000 foot (normal "shipping") reels, you will require a warehouse to store a few dozen prints. If you store your prints fully built up on 12000+ foot reels (sometimes called "tower" reels), you will also need a warehouse to store your prints, although you can store a few more that way as opposed to 2000 footers.
When you store on 6000 foot reels (roughly one hour playing time each), you hit that happy spot where you can cram the most amount of prints into one room. For example, I have a room that is 12x16 and I can store over 400 35mm prints in there...fully built up, ready to run on my automated changeover system. This way if the movie is roughly 2 hours or shorter, I can thread up both projectors and walk out of the booth to enjoy the entire movie uninterrupted. If the movie is long, such as 2.5 or 3 hours, somewhere in the middle hour I only need to wander into the booth for a couple of minutes to load up that third reel. Other 35mm collector friends of mine only have one projector, so they just do a short intermission at the halfway point.
Its all in HOW you organize your storage once you move into the world of 35mm.
As far as portability, I once setup a full sized Century SA machine for a friend of mine that ran 6000 foot reels and only took up 2x6 feet of floor space. It was built onto a "piano dolly" type of base so the entire system could be rolled out of the storage closet into position and with a couple of quick connections he was on screen.
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