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Topic: 17.5mm Pathe Natan on its way
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Paul Adsett
Film God
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 19, 2011 10:53 AM
Well Dino, according to my calculations, you now own equipment of all the various film sizes, 35mm, 28mm, 17.5mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 8.75mm, super 8mm, 8mm, and 4.75mm! Quite a collection! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted June 19, 2011 02:06 PM
Thanks Paul but I think the thing I am thus far most proud of is that with my collection I have presented public screenings of 4.75, 8, super 8, 9.5, 16, and 28mm, and will obviously expand that to 17.5, and hopefully soon the 16mm sound on disc. The diversity of what I like to call the "alternative cinema" has always been there throughout history and as an archivist by trade hobbyist by preference, I enjoy what this alternative cinema has to offer us.......Now if only the Spielberg camp would recognize what they have on their hands and release "The Case" as the first studio released super 8 film in years. It would be the perfect marketing component and it wouldn't hurt their bluray/dvd sales one bit.... Long live the alternative cinema.... : )
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted June 20, 2011 05:42 AM
I am deeply jealous of you, Dino. Where do you put all this wonderful equipment? I would love to build such a collection but just haven't the room in my old homestead in Bromley, Kent. May possible move to long beach near to you?
There was a wonderful series made by Channel 4 TV in England, called 'Mad about machines', and one particular episode in 1997 looked at a chap called Harold Bailey, who was well known in home movie circles for increasing light output on projectors. I believe the national film theatre called on his help when an 8mm show was required. He became know as 'Bailey the light', but was a very modest sort of fellow who just happened to be obsessed with projectors. He had, at the time of the programme, something like 150 projectors of all kinds. Unfortunately he lived in an average house which was packed to the roof with these machines, up the stairs, under the beds, on top of wardrobes etc. Understandably his marriage broke up when his wife gave him the ultimatum, 'Either the projectors go or I go!' Apparently he hesitated a little too long, and that was the end of that relationship!
I don't suppose for a minute that you've reached such extremes, but I know that if I didn't grit my teeth when trawling through Ebay, things could get out of control!
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted September 02, 2013 01:07 AM
Forgive me as I have been off the forums for awhile, but in answer to the 28mm questions...Both the US and Canada did start off with the 3 and 1 perforations, but at the end of the teens Mr. Alexander Victor attempted to standardize the gauge with the newly proposed 3 and 3 perforated film.The problem of course was any new machine designed this way would not play all of the old films, so the gauge soon fell by the wayside... From this point on you could find films being printed with both the 3 and 3 perforation and 3 and 1 perforation...I have 2 features that weren't even made until 1926 (That Model in Paris, and College Days) and were sold by a distributor in Canada that are 3 and 1 perforated, so it is not as easy as saying this country had this, and this country had that.
As for 8.75mm Chinese film, I have a reel, but still haven't been able to acquire a projector yet....My latest bizarro gauge i have been playing with is the 125mm Vitalux...The film was sold in a circular cone that rotates around a post as the lamp and lens slowly slide up the cylinder. A masterpiece of over-engineering, I plan on doing a paper and presentation of the gauge next year, after I shoot and project some brand new 3mm Eric Berndt film .... The format fun never ends in the Everett household
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