From: C Keefer (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 16:32:30 PDT
Anna -
here are some direct links for information on wet footage, sent today by the Chair of the AMIA Preservation Committee in response to your post:
1. From the AMIA Hurricane Relief Site:"What to Do About Your Home Movie Damage" http://amia.typepad.com/home_movie_recovery/
2. From Kodak:
John Pytlak from Kodak posted the following on AMIA-L:
"The Kodak website has information on handling dirty or wet film:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/technical/storage_room.jhtml#water
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/technical/storage_room.jhtml
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/technical/storage_handling.jhtml?i
d=0.1.4.11.12.14&lc=en
If there is just loose dirt on the rolls, carefully vacuum off the debris.
If the film is not sticking, carefully inspect it by slow rewinding.
Particle Transfer Roller (PTR) film cleaners provide a relatively low risk
method of removing loose particulate dirt. More aggressive aqueous or
solvent-based cleaners should not be used until you are certain that the
film/tracks have not deteriorated to the point of being attacked by the
cleaning solvent, or being able to survive rewashing.
If the film is sticking or "blocked", you need to determine if it is
severe enough that unwinding the film will cause delamination and damage
to the image area and/or soundtrack. If so, special techniques will need
to be used by a lab experienced in handing such damage (i.e., soaking the
film to swell the gelatin emulsion and carefully unwinding the film
without causing delamination, then rewashing and drying the film).
John
(signed by:)
John P. Pytlak
Senior Technical Specialist
Customer Technical Services
Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, New York 14650-1922 USA
3. There is a thread running on AMIA-L list-serv, accessible from AMIANET.org,
that addresses water damaged motion picture film.
I'll also email you contact information for the AMIA preservation committee off list.
Good luck,
Cindy Keefer
-----Original Message-----
From: Anna O'Cain <email suppressed>
Sent: Oct 2, 2005 3:18 PM
To: email suppressed
Subject: 16mm org. flooded footage (Katrina)
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
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