CHASING PSYCHO (chapter 3)

Today, Friday, May 27th 2011 at 7:30pm (GMT -08:00), the American Cinematheque will show Psycho at The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles... and I won´t be there. :(

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FACTS ABOUT PROJECTION (1975)

16mm FILM FOR SALE

UP FOR SALE is this film:

SPECS

NAME: Eurokai
YEAR: Unknown
FORMAT: 16mm
LENGTH: 400ft/120mts.
RUNNING TIME: 17 min.

BASE: Estar
SOUND: Mono (Mag)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: N/A
SUBTITLES: N/A
CONDITION OF FILM: Very good. Little or no scratching. Slight color fade.

 

Price: USD 20,00+shipping and hadling

*I would be willing to trade it for another title.

Dragonfly_films is a member of eBay (USA), Todocolección.com (Spain), Mercadolibre.com (Latin America). For transparency´s sake I will publish this film in the buyer´s choice of auction site. Interested parties, email me or leave a comment on this post.

16mm FILM FOR SALE

UP FOR SALE is this film:

SPECS

NAME: F850 Eurokai / Siemens
YEAR: Unknown
FORMAT: Super8
LENGTH: 400ft/120mts.
RUNNING TIME: 17 min.

BASE: Estar
SOUND: Mono (Mag)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: N/A
SUBTITLES: N/A
CONDITION OF FILM: Very good. Little or no scratching. Slight color fade.

Price: USD 20,00+shipping and hadling

*I would be willing to trade it for another title.

Dragonfly_films is a member of eBay (USA), Todocolección.com (Spain), Mercadolibre.com (Latin America). For transparency´s sake I will publish this film in the buyer´s choice of auction site. Interested parties, email me or leave a comment on this post.

CHASING PSYCHO (chapter 1)

As some of you know, as part of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Release of Alfred Hitchcock´s Psycho, the negatives were restored and new prints were issued in 35mm. Also a Blu-Ray edition was marketed on October 19, 2010, but for "home-enjoyment".

Fresh out of youtube, a clip of how the original mono mix from the film was separated to create a new 5.1 mix for the rerelease. (Let us not get into the ethics of film preservation here, shall we?)



It has been a dream of mine to watch Psycho in the big screen ever since I was 15 years old, and I got a peek of it in Universal´s: "Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies". Ever since then, the film has been eluding me. Twenty years and counting.

Four years ago, my dream had to be reformulated with the appearence of this dreadful digital technology. Now I not only had to catch it in the big screen, but I also had to watch it projected in 35mm.



This will be a series of posts about how the film pops-up here and there and I won´t be around to watch it.

U.S. AIR FORCE 16mm MOTION PICTURE PROJECTOR OPERATION, CARE AND MAINTENANCE (1961)

Commercial for "For the Love of Film: the Film Preservation Blogathon" hosted by Ferdy on Films and the Self-Styled Siren on Febraury 14-21, 2010.