farewell my lovely kodachrome 16mm.. 1935-2006 RIP

click on hd for slightly better quality..
this is a low res upload file seems to be weird artifacts and jerky images..

kodachrome was invented in the 1930s,by a couple of amazing struggling musicians Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky..the technology was then taken over by kodak.

kodachrome is tough this 100ft roll had really bad water and fungal damage.i dried it out near a window for a few days..
then sent it too ilab in soho for a nice clean up...came back cleaner than my face.
this footage needed a bit of a tweak in telecine but it was put through as a test..so nothing was done to it..so this is raw footage..still looks nice..
a real shame kodak stopped this film.
a little known fact that during the second world war kodak were selling kodachrome to the americans,brits and the germans..the famous colour footage of hitler was shot on kodachrome..
business is business i suppose.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• kodachrome
• color

[kevbomb]

Did you get a standard broadcast resolution telecine from Soho. I'm thinking of having a film I'm shooting telecined by them. How would you rate them, I want clean and crisp. I'm curious cos Telecines of my college films lacked sharpness.

[antiochus66]

ilab on poland st is good speak to nigel...

[antiochus66]

make sure you use it all in the next 12 months as dwaynes in the usa will be stopping processing.

the telecine is a normal cintel mk3...

i really like the old bosch/phillips machines...

this is standard def...nobody will buy the rights...kodachrome will soon only live in images and memory.

[ebuliavac]

This is terrific. What type of Telecine machine did you use? I've used Rank machines with OK results - not HD. I have some 16mm Kodachrome in the refrigerator, that I shoot for special occasions. I also have some K64 slide film left. The most archival color film is no longer made. Something is wrong with this. I wonder whether someone will buy the rights from Kodak.