From: Roger Beebe (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 18:50:21 PDT
16mm projection looks pretty good in my living room still. The 35mm
projection there really isn't so great.
But seriously, for those of us who tour with our films, 16mm still
seems A LOT better as a projection format than 35mm. None of the
venues I screened in while touring this summer could handle 35mm
projection, but all could be set up to handle 16mm pretty quickly with
my classroom projector & a Da-Lite Project-o Stand. (I brought my own
P.A. with me, so the sound issue wasn't generally a concern, but on
previous tours, I'll admit that sound on 16mm could be pretty dicey.
And of course an optical track isn't great to begin with...)
How many of the places that screen 35mm are even open to the occasional
experimental film screening? Not a lot, in my experience. So even if
every town in America has a 20-plex with acceptable 35mm projection, I
doubt makers of experimental shorts would be able to get at 'em.
Two cents.
Roger
On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, at 09:27 PM, Jeff Kreines wrote:
> I've always wondered why shorter films (where the price difference
> isn't great) aren't preserved in 35mm rather than their native 16mm --
> yes, it costs more, but there will be less generation loss -- and 16mm
> prints can always be made (by making a 16mm printing negative).
>
> 35mm prints have better sound, and permit a film to be shown at more
> venues than 16mm prints.
>
> I know, it's heresy... but 16mm projection is mediocre in all but a
> few special places these days.
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Mark Toscano wrote:
>
>> If only the Vision Premiere stuff was still available
>> in 16mm... The Vision Premiere preservation prints of
>> Castro Street are truly incredible looking...
>
>
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