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Hang Dried Movies?

Recently  “Ulla T. from Asheville, NC” came to us with a unique story. Her film had been soaked in water during a recent storm and basement flood.  Once the weather cleared, Ulla brilliantly responded to this predicament by literally hanging her films out to dry. Normally water-soaked film can be permanently ruined if allowed to dry again in their original containers.   However, in this case the film was unspooled and hung up on her clothes line to dry. Once hang-dried, Ulla simply put the bundles of film into plastic storage containers and labeled each film and bin properly.

Several months later Ulla found us through a web search for “Wetgate Telecine”.  She loaded the bins into her car and drove them 4 hours to our facility in Marietta, Ga.   The films were in surprisingly good condition.  We prepped the film onto 1200ft reels for telecine transfer and crossed our fingers. The resulting footage showed minimal damage from the water. In the many years CinePost has been in business we’ve never come across someone who salvaged their film in this manner.

 

 

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1956 Jawa CZ International Motorcycle Race

CZ Jawa 31st International Six Day Trial at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany

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Cintel Demo

A quick look a the CinePost Rank Cintel Telecine Suite.

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Regular 16mm to HD “Regrets of War”

Arri SR1 regular 16mm negative Vision 200t, transferred to ProRes HD files via a Cintel Turbo telecine at CinePost in Marietta, GA

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Heather and Brandon’s Backyard!

Some 8mm footage we found recently with some music for fun.

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Mississippi Home ’60s

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Regular 16mm to HD Scenes

The Camera was an unmodified Arri SR1. The Telecine employed was a Cintel Turbo3 with a Teranex. We adjusted the scanner framing to crop a little of the image from the top and bottom of the 16mm frame in order to fill a 16:9 aspect ration. Cinematography was framed in anticipation of this cropping. The footage was captured directly into Final Cut via a Kona3 card.

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Super 8mm “Full Frame” Ektachrome 100D

Shot 07/21/10 Telecined “Full-frame” 08/19/10 at CinePost, not matted. Scenes are in and around the Great Smoky Mountains near Cherokee, NC Processed by Dwayne’s Photo

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35mm Wetgate film transfer to Hard drive 10bit uncompressed

“Rookie of the Year” for TCM with Pat Wayne and John Wayne, directed by John Ford. It was an episode from “Screen Directors Playhouse” (1956) Going to air on TCM later this year. Good little 1/2 hour show, check out the TCM schedule and see the reel thing!

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Wyoming Faces via 8mm Kodachrome and CinePost HD Telecine

Beautiful life of Grams and some of the kids shot in the early 60’s with a Bolex.