NASA 3mm film gauge

[Mark Barton]

Has anyone seen any of the NASA 3mm film being projected, or even the cameras/projectors. Fascinating creation:https://boingboing.net/2016/10/06/na...-gauge-mo.html

[Paul Adsett]

Thank's for that Mark. I have heard of NASA's 3mm before but this is he first time I have ever seen the camera. Truly amazing, and falls into the same category as Pathe's failed 4.75mm Duplex system. I wonder if the NASA 3mm film also had a center sprocket?

[Michael O’Regan]

I’m pretty certain Dino Everett had some info about this a few years back on the old forum.

[Dino Everett]

I actually have all of the equipment for the format, which was called cine3 even though it was technically 3.2mm. It was created by Eric Berndt (one of the creators of the auricon) and he attempted to sell it to NASA in 1960, but they didn't go for it. It is a center perf format. As for equipment there is the following:
2 x cameras
1 x film slitter
1 x film perforator
1 x set of developing parts
1 modified Bell & Howell 8mm projector
1 optical printer enlarger cine3 - 16mm

The projector was actually missing the front pressure plate so i sent it to my friend Martyn Stevens who fabricated a new pressure plate and wrote about it on his web site


I actually made some new 3.2mm film and shot in using one of the cameras and then projected it at an AMIA conference. I also wrote and article with a friend Marsha Gordon that is in the AMIA journal called the Moving Image.

I scanned the film here https://www.facebook.com/dino.everet...7654385736278/

[Maurice Leakey]

This link will work direct.

http://www.cinerdistan.com/2-uncategorised/563-3-2mm-2




Maurice