I'm quite curious as to the title or content of this nitrate film.
Although one archive may not want it, another might. I've sent nitrate
to the LOC several times, and I know other archives had footage (it was
a Chaplin film, Those Love Pangs), but the LOC still wanted it for their
collection.
Larry
Urbanski Film
On 12/12/2018 6:31 AM, Mandar Gotad wrote:
You can do film scanning
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 16:18 mstark...@gmail.com
<mailto:mstark...@gmail.com> <mstark...@gmail.com
<mailto:mstark...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I have three reels of 35mm suspected as nitrate and confirmed by
my local film archive recently. They want to dispose safely of the
film via a third party… And don’t recommend that it is taken back
into a domestic environment as they told me it will invalidate my
house insurance. I’m torn between recklessly wanting it back to
set fire to myself (!) and document as an artwork. I have very
little idea what is on it apart from it’s 1920s (and presumably
not thought to be significant if the archive want to destroy it).
It’s not in bad condition and has just been sitting in my studio
for the last three years. I suddenly panicked about it
spontaneously combusting after watching Bill Morrison’s Dawson
City: Frozen Time, which includes lots of footage of film setting
on fire!
Any recommendations, thoughts, warnings, advice from an artist
filmmaker perspective, rather than an archival perspective, are
welcomed.
Mary
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