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Post by Qasim Yusuf on Sept 29, 2018 13:21:36 GMT
Not very likely; that amount of 35mm film is bulky and heavy, and unless you worked for a cinema you wouldn't have a 35mm projector to show it on. I never considered these factors. This makes me double  Not all is lost! There could still be a small chance of a 16mm copy turning up. |
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Post by Gary Sayers on Sept 29, 2018 16:17:16 GMT
Not very likely; that amount of 35mm film is bulky and heavy, and unless you worked for a cinema you wouldn't have a 35mm projector to show it on. There's actually lots of film collectors who have their own 35mm projectors. Shorts and trailers in this format also sell very well on ebay to private collectors. |
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Post by brianfretwell on Sept 29, 2018 16:29:34 GMT
Not very likely; that amount of 35mm film is bulky and heavy, and unless you worked for a cinema you wouldn't have a 35mm projector to show it on. There's actually lots of film collectors who have their own 35mm projectors. Shorts and trailers in this format also sell very well on ebay to private collectors. Yes most have ex-service or other portable 35mm machines. though have met one person with a 70/35mm projector who twice took it to the British Film Collectors Convention, where a Chinese portable 35mm was normally used. |
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Post by RWels on Sept 29, 2018 16:55:55 GMT
Not very likely; that amount of 35mm film is bulky and heavy, and unless you worked for a cinema you wouldn't have a 35mm projector to show it on. There's actually lots of film collectors who have their own 35mm projectors. Shorts and trailers in this format also sell very well on ebay to private collectors. Let's not exagerate. The bulk of film collectors does 16mm, which is the format that still had portable projectors. 35mm is the superlative and you will find it, but not a lot. Yes, there is the occasional Japanese portable 35mm projector, probably for 1 reel at a time - I still regret not buying one (with built in cassette deck for some reason???) on ebay many years ago as it went dirt cheap. But the rest needs a lot of space, maintenance, a power transformer etcetera. Sound isn't easy either and needs laser these days. It's true, some people have one anyway. Accross town there's a living room that's had one (an Ernemann) in it for decades. But on the main 16mmfilm forum, there's 85 thousand posts on 16mm versus less than 4 thousand on 35mm. |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Oct 1, 2018 6:42:07 GMT
That's it; in the Sixties if you were well-off you might use 16mm for home movies rather than 8mm, and 16mm was the standard format for schools, instruction, and film clubs. Therefore there were plenty of 16mm projectors around, and if you didn't have one they could be borrowed and taken home easily, unlike 35mm jobs which were often bolted to the floor!
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Post by Sue Butcher on Oct 1, 2018 6:42:37 GMT
(Sorry, double post)
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Post by Gary Sayers on Oct 1, 2018 18:15:53 GMT
Don't underestimate how determined certain collectors have been over the years to own 35mm prints of their 'most wanted' feature films. Small matters of the space needed to house the projection equipment just don't come in to it. The excellent book 'A Thousand Cuts' is a fascinating insight into this world, past and present, of 'underground' film collecting.
Granted it was mainly in the United States and yes, 16mm was/is collected more but 35mm collecting was/is also a big deal for many collectors. Whether any of them would have laid their hands on an old episode of a British TV series is another matter!
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