Digital FX Design | Production | Post

Last week, my daughter took an interest in an old 1950s box camera of mine. She carried it around the house playing with it all day. Eventually, she asked me if I would get some film for it so she could actually take pictures. The camera uses 620 film, and I assumed I couldn’t buy that anymore. Within an hour, my daughter found 620 film online. She’s been taking pictures ever since. Film is not dead, but it’s slowly becoming a bit of a novelty. And, Red’s brand new Epic-M digital motion and still camera isn’t helping film’s cause…

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Not too long ago, most of us got our DVDs in the mail. We opened the envelope, slipped out the DVD and enjoyed two hours of entertainment before slipping it back in the envelope and dropping it the mailbox. Tomorrow, or the next day perhaps, we’d get another movie. It’s a process that is almost as familiar to most of us as microwaving popcorn. Now, many of us stream our movies via Netflix on our televisions, Apple TV or any number of other streaming devices. But the concept of movies delivered to the home is nothing new. In fact, the idea is probably a lot older than you think…

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I stumbled accross this terrific article about the incredibly important task of film preservation…

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