O.K. I'm kind of following along here :) Yes the reels have rusted and THE SILENT WITNESS footage is starting to deteriorate a little along the edges, but it is not brittle yet. . I believe it can be easily removed from the reel. I shot the frame photos with a cheap digital camera set on macro. I j...

I removed the film from the reels and sadly most of the film on the Chaplin reel was local news footage of dancing & a biplane. The small amount of Chaplin film is pretty clear and will make good quality single frame scans/photos. It was only stuck along the film edges so most of the damage is not o...

O.K. I'm kind of following along here :) Yes the reels have rusted and THE SILENT WITNESS footage is starting to deteriorate a little along the edges, but it is not brittle yet. . I believe it can be easily removed from the reel. I shot the frame photos with a cheap digital camera set on macro. I ju...

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Hi everyone! I have some old silent movie 35mm film reels (circa 1915) with the old nitrate film still on the reels. The reels are in the old metal projector boxes. The silent movies are only partial and are not complete. The first was easy to identify as: The Silent Witness (1915) http://www.flickr...