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Re: Double Edged Sword



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-
        I've got  an original 16mm version from the " National Audio-Visual Center"  in DC,  looks like an original distribution,  (I used to work for Philips, one of the Film's  'sponsors').   My only VHS copy is really fuzzy.   My point?   The 16mm film can be yours, in trade for a reasonable VHS version.....
       
        From the archives,
                Bob Westerdale
                EDAX Inc.   




Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>
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A year or so ago some people on the list were looking for the old X-Ray
Safety film/video of "The Double Edged Sword".

Has anyone found it?  Is it still being offered?

I was given a umatic tape copy many years ago with written permission to
make "as many copies as I wanted" - which I have always taken with
discretion.

We made VHS copies for our own use and I have now captured it to an AVI
file (Almost 7 gigs) and will soon put it to mpeg, video CD and DVD
formats.

I'm asking the initial question above to see if its been abandoned or if
it is still available.  If its been abandoned - then I might seek
permission to let the CD formats out.
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