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Topic: 16mm negatives
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John Whittle
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 791
From: Northridge, CA USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 06, 2008 01:39 PM
Labs charge by the foot with a minium billing per item. The first print is called the answer print and is the highest cost, after that you get into release printing and the costs drop.
All that may not matter since, in the USA, labs require a certificate that you own the rights to reproduced the material you have. They won't deal with PD stuff walking in the door, if you're Disney or Fox, that's different but be prepared with a title clearnace (not just a bill of sale) that proves you can order prints. We used to least rights to various educational distributors and each and every lab required that we supply a letter of authorization before they would print for some pretty big names in the educational business.
Don't be surprised if you find a lab to do the work, that they charge you a $1 per foot for an answer print (including checking the negative, cleaning, negative assembly--i.e. running the track through with the negative in a synchronizer and checking physical condition).
Also only a very few labs in the US will accept nitrate film (which you don't have if it's 16mm) but that's another problem to deal with.
John
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