From: Anna Biller (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2006 - 11:29:08 PDT
Not mystified that it should persist, just that it should
increase...and mainly interested in what the camera assistant had to
say-- that there's a return to 16mm within the industry.
On Jul 12, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Sam Wells wrote:
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>> I heard someone mention on the list recently that Kodak has made more
>> 16mm this year than ever before. I was a little mystified by this
>> statement.
>
> Why ?
>
> If you read some of the popular press we're "winning the war on
> terror" etc
>
> "Hollywood" as in big budget theatrical features, then no, S16 is a
> very minor player. (But last summer's uber-grossing March Of The
> Penguins was S16mm in a digital blowup to 35mm)
>
> But in television, things like One Tree Hill, Veronica Mars - Super
> 16. And in television films outside the US, esp UK S16 is quite
> common.
>
> Lower budget (not Uncle Joe's Used Cars type) TV commercials etc.
>
> Countless "Indie" features...
>
> -Sam
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