Castle 16mm Shorts!

[Steve Klare]

Thanks for the pictures, Bill!

(That does look nice!)

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do if I got the chance to buy a real color print: does the addition of color make the use of funds and space worthwhile? I could have a whole separate film using those same dollars and cubic inches of storage space!

What's hysterical is I bought my own B&W print from the Franchettis!

I've been to CineSea...ehhh!...a couple of times (-about twenty-five! -but who's counting?!)

My wife ran a baby shower there when the youngest Franchetti was soon to be born!
-maybe the first in the history of film conventions!

If you get a chance to join in, please do! It's good, clean fun and the people that attend are generally pretty happy they did!

[Bill Davis]

Black and white of color is not necessarily bad. I am trying to collect most - but not all - of the Castle travelogues. I’ve been very happy to get B & W prints of several that were released in color. I only have one Kodachrome Castle print in my collection - it’s the one on Holland - and I paid dearly for it on eBay. I do have a few faded Eastman’s and if the chance to upgrade to B & W I would do it in a second. But faded Eastman is better than nothing!! I would think the Newfoundland film would look typical of the period in B & W. When I did “movie nights” at my church - before Covid - I would always start with a cartoon (IB) followed by a travelogue, then the feature. The travelogues don’t always go over but I always included one. If I knew a member that expected to attend was from a certain state or someone I knew just came back from a vacation to a certain area and I had something I would include that for the travelogue portion. There were many beautifully filmed travelogues released in the 1950’s, early 1960’s. Those are the bulk of my collection.