[Frameworks] Largest purchaser of Kodak 16mm film stock, NFL Films, has switched to digital production

[Francisco Torres]

Many independent filmmakers in my country used NFL labs since the 70s -they
were reliable and less expensive than regular labs ...
Got to wonder ow long will the lab last now.... Damn.


2014-08-25 10:51 GMT-04:00 Nicholas Kovats <nkovats at gmail.com>:

> Regrettably, NFL fims has decided to switch completely to digital
> production and have purchased 30 new digital Arriflex Amira cameras.
> Up until recently they were Kodak's largest customer of 16mm stock for
> the last 50 years. They have their own immense state of the art
> archive, and lab. Up until recently they were also processing film for
> students. They have over 100 million feet of 16mm film in their
> archives predominately shot with the legendary Photo-Sonics
> Actionmaster 500 camera (24-500fps). I have yet to test mine,
> http://www.highspeedfilm.de/16_am500.html
>
> Here is the article from the New York Times, i.e.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/sport ... .html?_r=1
>
> "Within the headquarters of NFL Films in Mount Laurel, N.J., resides
> more than 100 million feet of film stored in tens of thousands of
> metal canisters."
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