From: Roger Beebe (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 10:06:44 PDT
I don't know about SAVING flooded film (i.e., making it look normal
again), but I do know that Skip Elsheimer (of A/V Geeks fame) had
some serious flooding during Hurricane Hugo & that a lot of the
damage from that flooding made it into Bill Morrison's "Decasia."
Maybe you can make the sequel?
...
Roger
On Oct 2, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Anna O'Cain wrote:
> Is there someone in this group who is a film conservator or who can
> direct
> me to a conservator of film? Any ideas or leads about the
> following would
> be appreciated:
>
> I have approximately 2,500 feet of 16mm film (1950's color and
> black and
> white home movies) that was retrieved from a Katrina flooded
> storage bin in
> a house on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Anyone have any
> experience with
> flooded original footage?
>
> I am interested in speaking to someone who is knowledgeable about
> restoring, saving a part of, or just giving up on this soggy footage.
>
> Thanks,
> Anna O'Cain
> email suppressed
>
>
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