On Nov 17, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
> I don't want this to seem like spam, but the Cinematographers Mailing
> List and the Telecine Interest Group have been having a raging debate
> for most of the day about a series on the History Channel on World War
> 2. It seems that people were worried that the director of the film had
> carelessly destroyed priceless historical WW2 color footage by
> incorrectly transferring it with a RED camera and some projectors.
> This is false.
>
> I just interviewed Mr. Lumiere on the telephone for about an hour.
>
> The guy is not an idiot. The story about how the film was destroyed as
> it was projected was taken out of context. It DID happen that on a
> single reel of someone's 8mm footage, there was some small - but
> recoverable - damage to the sprockets.
>
> The footage of someone shooting stuff off a wall was some 8mm footage.
> And they DID actually use low-cost home video cameras at the National
> Archives to shoot the projection screen so that they could know what
> they needed to come back and have professionally transferred.
>
> All of the National Archives footage was transferred professionally on
> a C-Reality telecine direct to ProResHD 4:2:2 or in some cases
> uncompressed HD.
> All of the stuff from Europe was transferred on a Cinetel telecine to
> HD QTs.
>
> The footage from the Navy and Marines was transferred using what Mr.
> Lumiere describes as a "telecine where they replaced the old
> camera" (which he thinks was an Ikegami) with a RED. My guess is that
> this probably wasn't a real telecine, but a film chain, which is
> similar.
>
> He also described the way the footage was searched for using an
> elaborate FileMaker database and that one of the benefits of his
> project is that now, large amounts of the National Archives footage
> that had never been well cataloged before is now very precisely and
> accurately cataloged.
>
> He also described the goal of the editing of the program, which seems
> very unique in documentary editing.
>
> I will transcribe the entire interview as quickly as possible and put
> it up on www.provideocoalition.com. I'll respond again when it is
> ready. It was a very enlightening interview.
>
> Steve Hullfish
>
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