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35mm BIRTH OF A NATION with Vitaphone disks on eBay
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:24 am
by silentfilm
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SS:US:1123
According to the seller, they are the original 1930 reels from producer Roy Aitken's estate. Obviously these are from the early 1930s sound re-issue.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 8:56 am
by Mitchell Dvoskin
And if these are indeed original reels, they would be on nitrate film.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:55 am
by Jay Salsberg
That film stock looks pretty good for 80 year-old nitrate.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 11:15 am
by Ray Faiola
The original 1930 reissue prints were on "Peach Blow" stock. Is the eBay print?
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 6:46 pm
by Tommy Stathes
Jay Salsberg wrote:That film stock looks pretty good for 80 year-old nitrate.
I have a couple from 1920-1921. Just fine! A few of my later nitrates were rotting, though...straight to LoC.
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:28 pm
by pookybear
Tom Stathes wrote:Jay Salsberg wrote:That film stock looks pretty good for 80 year-old nitrate.
I have a couple from 1920-1921. Just fine! A few of my later nitrates were rotting, though...straight to LoC.
Tom,
I did not know you had nitrate stock as well over there.
I hope my friend that you keep your prints seperate from each others off
gassing fumes. You know all the nitrate stock in one room and the di-
acetate in another and so forth.
Pookybear
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:05 pm
by silentfilm
On the 16mmfilmtalk.com message site, Philip Borgnes alerted someone at the Library of Congress about this print on eBay. Here is their response:
"Thanks for thinking of us! This print has been around the block, so to speak! I think we were first offered it through the Vitaphone Project a year or so ago. The issue for us is that we have not only the picture and track negatives for the sound reissue, as well as some print material, we also have the original negative for the 1915 version and several long original era prints. We have LOTS and LOTS of nitrate on BOAN, but always run up against a wall when preservation is attempted as someone always complains about federal money being used to preserve "that film."
http://www.16mmfilmtalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=17130