From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2008 - 20:46:46 PDT
On 8/30/08, Bernard Roddy <email suppressed> wrote:
> Greetings all. Reading this thread hits home. Where to go if you want to
> carry on a particular kind of tradition but without the burden of virtually
> extinct equipment. I now have available piles of 16 mm filmmaking equipment
> - Bolex, Eclair, Arriflex - including a Moviola and a Steenbeck long out of
> service. I hadn't heard yet that optical sound tracks are on the way out,
> or equivalently, rising in cost. What a fate. But where to go now.
Bernie,
Last I counted, there was 15 places in North America to make optical
tracks. It's generally 50-60 cents
per foot.
Alain
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