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

You can't believe everything you read on the internet. I spoke
directly to the editor. Nearly ALL of the footage was transferred by
post-production companies that have exclusive agreements (because they
are VERY CAREFUL AND SKILLED) to transfer footage from these rare
resources. If you have ever tried to use footage from the National
Archives you would know this. That is why I did the interview with
Lumiere in the first place. I knew that the story had to be
essentially bogus and it is.

Lumiere confirmed that one reel of 8mm family film from the 1940s was
damaged in projection but not horribly. So griping about "killing 60
year old source materials" is about the same as worrying that men are
being seduced into hotel rooms where their kidneys are being cut out
and they wake up in a bathtub full of ice with a note "Call a hospital
immediately" taped to their chest. Some things aren't true. Hopefully,
your schools system has the same ban against using Wikipedia as ours
does.

On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Eric J. Gleske wrote:

> 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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> I was reminded of how seriously everyone took everything,
> particularly themselves, and I had to keep a firm grip
> on my impulse to make fun."
> ~Robert B. Parker, "Hush Money" (1999)
>
>

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