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Author Topic: Need To Have Replacemwnt Prints of Our Litter Trailer Made Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-14-2005 05:35 PM                     We run 50 second trailer that we need additional copes made of. No negative is available. What we have to have it duped from is an unused print. Any suggestions about who can do this for us, and what would be the least expensive process---I've been told that a reversal print would not require an internegative?? The print is flat, is an anomorphic copy possible even is it didn't fill the full screen, this would eliminate the manual lens change between the trailer and the feature. Cost? Any suggestions?  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-14-2005 05:57 PM                     If you're not too attached to that particular snipe, have a look at www.drive-infilm.com They have some great stuff, and its reasonably priced.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 12-14-2005 06:47 PM                     Unfortunately...reversal print film, used for dirty dupes and workprints, the emulsion postion is opposite from regular print stock, requiring refocus during projection. Reversal also has higher contrast and you may not like what you get.....  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-14-2005 09:49 PM                        I had this done a few years ago with some home movies shot in the 1940s on 16mm reversal. Magno Lab-Link in NYC made a 16mm IN, then a 16mm print. The quality was fantastic and the new print looks better than the original in many ways (the wet gate IN helped fill in some light scratches). Figure on spending upwards of $1/foot for the IN. Since the Byrd snipe has a soundtrack, it will need to be re-recorded to mag film or DAT and a new 35mm sound negative will need to be made. I believe that Trackwise in NYC can do this or at least they should be able to point you to someone who can. Scope prints would require optical work and I'm sure it would be even more expensive. Metropolis Film Lab in NYC does optical printing, but I don't know if they can do the anamorphic squeeze. (BTW, let me know if you do this and could have an extra print made--I'd buy one for my own collection.)  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 12-15-2005 08:39 AM                     Yes, Metropolis Film Labs can do anamorphic. They did custom snipes for us at the Landmark Loews Jersey.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-15-2005 10:37 AM                        You could "shop around" for a lab willing to make copies: http://www.acvl.org/members.htm If all you have is a good print, and you now want both flat and anamorphic versions, you might consider having the lab scan the print to make a "digital intermediate", from which both flat and anamorphic duplicate negatives can be generated for making prints. The soundtrack would be played on a reader, recorded, and then a new sound negative made. It will be expensive. The least expensive way would be to make an internegative by contact printing, but it would not change formats, and would not have optimum steadiness. Sound would still need to be transferred to a new sound negative for printing.  |  IP: Logged

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