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A Silver Bullet Taking Aim At Film?
by Greg , 8 months ago
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…
Netflix, circa 1912
by Greg , 11 months ago
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…
Early Motion Picture Color Tests
by Max , over 1 year ago
Here is a beautiful Two-Color Kodachrome test (the earliest known color film footage) from 1922, featuring actress Mae Murray.
The return of an Indie Maverick
by Max , over 1 year ago
One of the great unsung heroes of independant cinema, Monte Hellman, returns to feature directing after a twenty year absence (his last feature was the unfortunate, Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!) with a film called Road to Nowhere. He also shot the picture with the Canon 5D Mark II - making this the first feature film to be shot with this camera.
Hellman, who is best known for a pair of interesting and very off-beat westerns he made with Jack Nicholson, Ride the Whirlwind (1965) and The Shooting (1967), as well as his 1971 masterpiece, Two-Lane Blacktop, starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson and Warren Oates, seems to have picked up right where he left off and judging by the New York Times article, is still employing the guerrilla filmmaking techniques he learned under Roger Corman’s tutelage.
Film Preservation
by Max , over 1 year ago
I stumbled accross this terrific article about the incredibly important task of film preservation…
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