Hi I have news regarding all the part reels that I posted info about above. All the film went off to the East Anglian Film Archive (University of East Andlia) in England, via archivist James Layton. James Layton then went to work for/at George Eastman House in Rochester NY and he arranged for me to ...

silentfilm - re. contact name; I'll start enquiring to see if I can interest him. I work in an allied industry, so may be able to find a common contact - "six degrees of separation". Hopefully I may be a few degrees there already. Brooksie - thanks for that link; I don't have as complete a newsreel ...

Over the next few days I’ll try and catalogue the films I have a bit more thoroughly and see what I’ve got & create a page somewhere with them on and post a link to it in a new thread. The fragments of comedy/drama I can’t identify I’ll post a few frames in a thread to see if anyone can help. The ne...

I have a webpage with pics of a few frames of about 1/2 of them which I emailed to the BFI then the SSA back in 2007, but only got the reply that my email had "been forwarded to the relevant department" (or words to that effect) and then heard nothing more. (Maybe I could start a new thread here wit...

Tom - no cartoons, a mixture of drama, comedy, an interview with an actress (with soundtrack) but mostly an obscure mix of newsreels, including a funeral in the UK (Edward VII I suspect), the opening of the parliament in Australia, A $250,000 Chicago wheat fire, Labour demonstration in Hyde Park etc...

Yes, I see the subtle difference now - my little stack of films seems to be about 1/2 and 1/2 BH & KS perfs, with the older films being the BH type.

Hi Jack

I looked at the film at an angle but both surfaces look the same, so I did a little scratch test on the edge of one frame and there seems to be emulsion on only one side.
I'm not sure what you mean by BH perfs - are you talking about the little red tags on one side of the frame?

I have about 20 old nitrate film fragments that used to belong to my father who had them along with an old small hand cranked 35mm projector. Only one of them is in colour - a couple of samples below:- http://yesfine.com/35mm/FILM_K_1.jpg http://yesfine.com/35mm/FILM_K_2.jpg About every foot there i...