Re: Double Edged Sword

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

Ted, Bob,


I've had some film transferred that was used in the recent PBS

documentary on WWII in color. There is a good place in Burbank with a

Schmitzer wet gate telecine. Since copyright on this is probably PD since

it was a gov't-produced film (most gov't stuff is, but not all), then

distribution should not be a problem.


I'd help arrange a GOOD transfer if someone wants to pay. I'd suggest

transfer to 625 Digibeta and than standards convert to 525 Digibeta and

run the VHS copies from that. That's what was done for the PBS material.

With 625 line recording you get 100 more lines and with the 25 frame

rate, you don't have to do the nonsensical 3:2 pulldown to match the

North American standard. This should capture the film in as good quality

as the original.


Should be a few hundred dollars...probably well under a

thousand.


Cheers,


Richard



At 02:51 PM 2/21/2003 -0500, Bob Westerdale wrote:


> Ted- 
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>         I've got  an
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> original 16mm version from the " National Audio-Visual
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> Center"  in DC,  looks like an original
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> distribution,  (I used to work for Philips, one of the Film's 
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> 'sponsors').   My only VHS copy is really fuzzy.   My
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> point?   The 16mm film can be yours, in trade for a reasonable
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> VHS version..... 
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>         From the
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> archives, 
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> Bob Westerdale 
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> EDAX Inc.     
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> Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM> 
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> Sent by: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 
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> 02/21/03 12:02 PM 
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> Please respond to Ted de Castro 
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> Subject:        Double Edged
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> Sword 
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> A year or so ago some people on
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> the list were looking for the old X-Ray
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> Safety film/video of "The Double Edged Sword".
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> Has anyone found it?  Is it still being offered?
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>
> I was given a umatic tape copy many years ago with written permission
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> to
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> make "as many copies as I wanted" - which I have always taken
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> with
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> discretion.
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> We made VHS copies for our own use and I have now captured it to an
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> AVI
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> file (Almost 7 gigs) and will soon put it to mpeg, video CD and DVD
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> formats.
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> I'm asking the initial question above to see if its been abandoned or
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> if
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> it is still available.  If its been abandoned - then I might
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> seek
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> permission to let the CD formats out.
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