[Picture Source: Der Tod aus Det sjunde inseglet (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)]
“ … Speaking of my fears, I have a final one. Film on celluloid has proven remarkably resilient. Not long ago, invaluable missing footage from Lang’s „Metropolis“ was found surviving very nicely in Argentina. If we had the missing reel from „Magnificent Ambersons,“ we could watch it together tonight. How long will the digital file of a new movie survive and be readable? I have memory discs of pretty much everything I’ve ever written on a computer, but have no idea what format they were created in or how to read them. I also have carbon copies of everything I wrote for the Sun-Times from 1966 until around 1977, when we got computers in the newsroom. I made them on my typewriter. You remember those. …“ | From: „The sudden death of film“ By Roger Ebert on November 2, 2011 | http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/11/the_sudden_death_of_film.html
Roger Green | November 3, 2011 4:46 AM
I’m hoping the ‚death‘ of film is like the ‚death‘ of vinyl in the music business, and that there will always be a niche market, at least.
Light and Sound Entertainment | November 3, 2011 1:48 PM
One format doesnt need to die to make way for the other. Both will coexist. Both formats have advantages and disadvantages. Vinyl is still around in the age of digital music. Film will also survive along with digital formats. One may become more dominant that’s all. Film is not dead.
John Sullivan | November 3, 2011 4:31 PM
I just finished a screenplay of four Edgar Allan Poe stories (including „Masque of the Red Death“), and hoped one day to shoot it in Technicolor! Born way behind my time, I guess.
CH | November 4, 2011 12:17 AM
Film is dead. Long live film.
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Fuck. RIP FILMmaking.
Comment by Erik — Friday, 7 September 2012 21:06 UK
Fuji To Cease Motion Picture Film Manufacturing By End Of The Year?
http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/fuji-to-cease-motion-picture-film-manufacturing-by-end-of-the-year/
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“ … Kodak is still resolutely committed to the wonderful, inimitable, organic film format and to motion film picture industry in general. … Kodak’s plan for the future has a sharper focus now …“ | Kai Langner, Regional Sales Director & Vice President | KODAK Entertainment Imaging Europe, Middle East & Africa Region …“ | Aus: „28.09.2012 – KODAK teil mit“ | http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/neu/news2012.php
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Tell us why Film Matters to you…
http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Customers/Film_Matters/index.htm
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01.10.2012: “ … Am vergangenen Freitag gab Kodak nicht nur weitere Entlassungen bekannt, sondern auch weitere Eckpunkte seiner Umstrukturierungspläne. … [so] war man […] optimistisch und wollte unbedingt am Traditionsgeschäft mit analogen Filmen und Fotopapieren festhalten. Aber schon kurz darauf stieg der angeschlagene Konzern aus dem Diafilm und Online-Fotogeschäft aus und kündigte später im August den Verkauf des kompletten Analogfilmgeschäfts […] an. …“ | http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bald-keine-Kodak-Tintendrucker-mehr-1720690.html | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak
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Daniel Cooper (Sep 13th 2012): “ … Since your average talkie is now recorded onto SD card and SSDs, companies that produce old-timey film are feeling the squeeze. As such, and despite its own efforts, Fujifilm is shuttering a large part of its cinema business by March 2013. While it’ll continue to produce stills film (for the time being, at least) and archival material similar to Kodak’s Asset Protection film, moves are under way to redirect its focus toward digital tools that won’t be left behind as people start to make movies on their smartphones. …“ | http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/fujifilm-ends-cinema-production/
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“ … Rochester/Es/Ag. Bei Kodak geht der Überlebenskampf in die nächste Runde. Jetzt will der Pionier der analogen Fotografie sein Geschäft mit Fotofilmen abstoßen. Bis Mitte des kommenden Jahres soll nun ein Käufer gefunden werden. …“ | Kodak-Film ist Geschichte (Die Presse, 24.08.2012) | http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/hightech/1282812/KodakFilm-ist-Geschichte
parapente
24.08.2012 08:42
Zum Artikel: Kodak will Fotofilm-Sparte verkaufen
Wer braucht heute noch Film??
Antworten Gast: undich
24.08.2012 09:32
Re: Wer braucht heute noch Film??
mehr als man glaubt
aber weniger als man gern hätte
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Noch gibt eine große Vielfalt an verschiedenen Super8 Filmkassetten zum Beispiel durch die Filmkonfektionierungen bei Wittner Kinotechnik (Hamburg) – aber wie schon in einem vorherigen Beitrag angedeutet, sind die Preise pro Kassette (Filmmaterial + Entwicklung + Überspielung) für normalsterbliche Filmliebende Rotznasen kaum mehr zu verkraften.
Super8 [15m Kassetten] | http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/katalog/04_filmm/s8_filmm.php
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