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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 11, 2019 0:27:34 GMT
I'm glad you cam across this, as it provides an opportunity to expand upon your extensive remarks upthread. Even when I was in the biz into the late '80s, it was common for the big labs all around town, including CFI, to serve as storage facilities for preprint materials as well as processing ones, which simplified handling when distributors ordered new prints stuck; they were already right where they needed to be. A side note to that, and one to strike terror into the heart of any current-day film preservation professional: back in '29, original cut negatives were still used, often as not, as printing negatives for exhibition positives. Nice to chat with you about this again. I love our shared experiences. I love that you know film! I miss seeing it on the screen, but I even miss holding it in my hands, touching it, and turning it in a moviola one frame at a time. Oh, boy. Those were the days.
Your experiences were more hands-on than mine, so my "sense memory" no doubt differs from yours, but I was close enough to various processes that the first thing I always think about is the smells; vinegar syndrome and the like from the chemicals involved, and the scents that would waft from a just-opened film can. First time I walked into a lab (Technicolor or maybe DeLuxe), I thought I'd pass out! Hoo-boy! Just the same, I can imagine some sentimentality attached thereto (and I guess I even have some myself), but the sentiment is much sweeter (ahem) for me as only a memory rather than an experience.
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