The Effect of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

David Blair blair
Fri Oct 22 07:27:23 EDT 2004



the viewing copy in College Park [which can be copied there]  is typically 
bad, telecine'd off a bedsheet or maybe a cloud of steam.
Curious, I looked up prices, from the vendor pamplets they pass out at the 
Archives. I forget how long the film is, but taking 1 hr as a base, this 
used to be about $250 + stock to get a reasonably good video copy 
[digibeta, betaSP, or less],  which you could project, and use as a master 
for a DVD project. My old pamplets say film prices are .42/ft for a one 
light intermediate, .50 for a timed, and .56 for a master, so that is in 
the $1000 range for a 16mm print [2100ft an hour?], unless you are fussy. 
35mm [5400 ft/hr?] is about the same for "intermediates", and a master is 
..77, you can do the scary math there. Of course, it is full of long shots, 
and detail counts....

Incidentally, not many users think of doing this, but it is always a nice 
idea, if budget permits, to donate a good copy of the video transfer back 
to the archive [master and a vhs viewing copy]. The footage is free, after 
all, and it helps the next person coming along.

David  






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