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Joe McAllister
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 179
From: London England
Registered: May 2007
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posted February 28, 2011 11:59 AM
Thought this may be of interest;
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Dear All,
The take-over of Soho Film Lab by Deluxe has lead to the decision last week to stop 16mm print with immediate effect. I was in the lab on Thursday & Friday last week with Len when he was
told he couldn't take any more orders.
Anyway, I don't think we should let this happen without making some noise.
I've been told there isn't a hope in hell of shifting the decision locally
and that we have to go higher and to the US, so I've gone to extremes and
already made contact with Thelma Schoonmaker (ie hopefully Scorsese) and
written to Spielberg!!
But our real hope perhaps lies in taking the argument away from the cinema
industry. The owner of Deluxe is Ron Perelman, an unsavoury US businessmen
who has made his fortune buying up companies and stripping them of their
assets. He is also, or has been, a patron of the arts. Through the
Guggenheim, I'm hoping to get a letter to him with many co-signatories - so
far: MOMA, the Whitney, hopefully the Tate and as many artists, filmmakers,
institutions and galleries we can muster. This is where I need everyone's
help. We need to get this list together as soon as we can, so please anyone
who can be informed and who is happy to sign or contribute, please for the
moment let me know (through yourselves so I don't get inundated with
emails).
I am writing an article for The Guardian, and have also been in contact with
the NY Times. We have to take this argument over the pond.
The decision, of course, is cultural rather than financial. Len said they're
backed up with work but to the cinema industry execs, 16mm printing is time
taken away from feature work and feature work is all that counts.
Failing to get them to reverse the decision, we must try and finds a means
to at least get more time. In the end, we will probably need to set up, what
is now being called "a boutique laboratory", possibly with the BFI, and the
best hope is that Deluxe work with us in pursuit of this and not against us
(ie not trash the equipment).
Best wishes,
Tacita
Sign here, if you will: http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43288.html
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Always interested in privately produced amateur and home movies.
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new 16mm isn't 100% dead, but darn near. CHC still does a little printing from what I understand, and a few others do too.
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