[Frameworks] nitrate reels

[mstarkmcr at gmail.com]

Hi all

Thanks for all the responses. Very encouraging. I’m waiting to here back from the archive who currently have the films and will update you when I know more!

All best,

Mary
On 15 Dec 2018, at 20:19, Larry Urbanski <larryu at urbanskifilm.com> wrote:

> I'm quite curious as to the title or content of this nitrate film. Although one archive may not want it, another might. I've sent nitrate to the LOC several times, and I know  other archives had footage (it was a Chaplin film, Those Love Pangs), but the LOC still wanted it for their collection.
> Larry
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> On 12/12/2018 6:31 AM, Mandar Gotad wrote:
>> 
>> You can do film scanning 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 16:18 mstarkmcr at gmail.com <mstarkmcr at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have three reels of 35mm suspected as nitrate and confirmed by my local film archive recently. They want to dispose safely of the film via a third party… And don’t recommend that it is taken back into a domestic environment as they told me it will invalidate my house insurance.  I’m torn between recklessly wanting it back to set fire to myself (!) and document as an artwork. I have very little idea what is on it apart from it’s 1920s (and presumably not thought to be significant if the archive want to destroy it). It’s not in bad condition and has just been sitting in my studio for the last three years. I suddenly panicked about it spontaneously combusting after watching Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time, which includes lots of footage of film setting on fire! 
>> 
>> Any recommendations, thoughts, warnings, advice from an artist filmmaker perspective, rather than an archival perspective, are welcomed.
>> 
>> Mary 
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