Re: [FCP-L] The Real story about controversial WW2 film archival procedures

The "raging debate" as I've been following it on the AMIA list is
about the admission by one of the folks involved that the production
team transferred some of the footage by shooting it with a Red off a
wall, destroying some originals in the projector as part of the
process.

To quote from the "behind the scenes" promotional materials:

"...at times, after taking a film out of the canister for the first
time 60 years after it was shot, Tom Schinstine (our engineer and
projectionist extraordinaire) would tell us that he thought we could
only project the film once. So we did and made sure all the settings
were correct on the RED! Most of the time, we were able to preserve
it as the film basically self destructed by the end of the reel.
Sometimes, the film was not recoverable."

Killing 60-year-old source materials film to make a cable TV
show...that's the gripe.

Eric Gleske
Somewhere in Oregon

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