FILM PROCESSORS AND HOLDERS OF STOCK AND EQUIPMENT
no.w.here
14 Kingsgate Place
London NW6 2TA
Tel: 020 7372 3925
www.nowhere-lab.org
no.w.here lab functions as an open studio in which one works
autonomously. It is fitted with a darkroom, a separate area for printing,
an editing area and a general workspace. no.w.here's facilities include
several 16mm editing tables and a variety of specialist film printers. Membership
costs £100 year and includes free booking of equipment, subject to the
demonstration of knowledge of its use. Fuji film stock is also available,
and at a cheaper price for members.
The Widescreen Centre
47 Dorset Street
London W1U 7ND
Tel: 020 7935 2580
Fax: 020 7486 1272
and
The Widescreen Centre
18 Lady Bay Road
West Bridgford
NG2 5BJ
Tel. 0115 945 5459
Fax. 0115 945 5362
www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/cine.php
Email: call@widescreen-centre.co.uk
The Widescreen Centre is an excellent resource for a variety
of 16mm and 8mm stock, both standard and super. In addition to offering
a great variety of material and equipment, they do so at the very reasonable
rates. They also transfer film to VHS, DV and DVD to a good home use
standard.
The Machine Room
54 - 58 Wardour Street
London W1D 4JG
Tel: 020 7734 3433
www.themachineroom.co.uk
The Machine Room offers a grading and dry and wet gate telecine
service for various gauges as well as other digital encoding and asset management.
Soho Images
8 - 14 Meard Street
London W1F 0EQ
Tel: 020 7437 0831
Email: info@sohoimages.com
www.sohoimages.com
Soho Images is a film lab sympathetic to the variety and
individuality of artist film. It also operates as a digital
post-production facility and has a staff with considerable knowledge and experience.
Kodak company, FPC
www.fpcfilm.com
The Kodak company, FPC, sells, among other things, cans,
cores, leader and molecular sieves to combat vinegar syndrome.
Image Permanence Institute
www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org
The Image Permanence Institute sells A-D (acidity detection)
strips and even has a free downloadable preservation calculator.
INFORMATION LINKS
Home Processing
It is perfectly possible to process 16mm and
super8 films at home. The chemicals required are the same as those used in
still photographic development but the tanks needed to wind the film through
are a little more hard to come-by. You may be able to get one through an internet
auction site.
This web page gives details about equipment, set-up and materials.
online.sfsu.edu/~ralph/process_site/allpages.html
Kodak Filmstock
These pages provide information about the
different super 8 and 16mm film stocks and cameras available from Kodak.
Super 8 - www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/super8/index.jhtml?id=0.1.4.4.10&lc=en
16mm - www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/16mm/index.jhtml
Nitrate Deterioration
This link to a three-page document from
the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, in Bradford, provides
information about the identification and stages of decomposition of cellulose
nitrate film. There is also information about how t o store it and test for
deterioration.
www.nmpft.org.uk/insight/info/5.3.52.pdf
Telecine
The WRS Motion Picture and Video Laboratory provides
comprehensive information and terminology about the telecine of film.
Fixing Equipment
The small gauge (16mm and smaller) enthusiasts,
Little Film, provide pointers for maintaining and fixing film-handling and
viewing equipment, at the link below.
www.littlefilm.org/RehabLeaves/TechTips.html
PRESERVATION INFORMATION
Filmforever is a preservation guide for home movie filmmakers. It is divided into neat chapters addressing the different elements of care, cleaning and handling. It also has good illustrative photos.
The archive, Screen Sound Australia, has a very useful film preservation handbook on their website, available at the link below. This is very comprehensive and includes information about the chemical structures and characteristics of the different elements of film, in addition to advice about the more physical active process of film copying and care.
LISTI NG GROUPS
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) sponsor a list for professionals and otherwise to discuss all things archival. Details about how to join can be found at the link below.
www.amianet.org/amial/amial.html
Frameworks is an international forum concerned with experimental film in all its guises. This link provides details about the listing, an archive of former postings and also instructions about how to sign-up.