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Tom,
Since you are electing to go the higher quality / more costly route, make sure you get a "Broadcast Quality" (ie: Digital Betacam, Betacam SP, DVCAM, MiniDV) copy of your footage. This way you will be able to make future copies with little or less quality degredation.
Dave
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As JJKIZAK notes: "If you want the best quality then find a pro lab with the proper 1.5 million dollar machine... "
These devices are called telecines and are normally tied to color correctors (normally DaVinci). Most places that have that kind of technology won't have an 8mm gate...(a small handful might?). These places would likely charge by the hour anyhere from $250 to $850 per hour as they are used to dealing with broadcast and film professionals. I work for a pro lab that has 3 such telecine suites, none of them have 8mm gates. On several occasions we have rented 8mm gates and we were not terribly happy with the results not to mention the $500 per day rental fee (2 day minimum!) which we pass on to the client.
Although you will get a noticable difference going with a higher end company, I'm not sure it's really worth the money for 8mm home movies.
Dave
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Tom,
I assume you are actually refering to 8mm film? You'll need to use your local yellowpages. Some companies that specialize in VHS or DVD duplication offer this service...also a few consumer level photo labs might still offer this type of service. Often they will offer you a package deal including transfering your film and then editing it together usually with some pretty cheezy music:( You will want to organize you film in some sort of chronological order if possible otherwise the 17 year old kid that transfers the films for you will...and you don't want that;)
The device used to transfer your original 8mm to video or digital file is called a film chain or film prism. It would consist of a film projector that would project the film image into a mirror or prism that would have a video or some type of digital camera recording the picture.
These types of systems are getting pretty ancient...so the longer you wait...the fewer places there will be to help you.
Good Luck!
Dave
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After 2 cups of coffee and a Tylenol 3 (w/ Codeine)
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3:30 pm in Miami..and all is well...just a little rain so far.
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The Jerk"The Lord loves a working man...don't trust whitey...see a doctor and get rid of it."
How about ,
"Seven or eight quick ones and your off to boast and brag with the boys"
ANSWER: "...Young Frankentein"Love those Mel Brooks films !
NEW QUOTE: "Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?"
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Malice. That is a great scene when Alex Baldwin throws that out.
How about this
Now, she should be good-looking, but we're willing to trade looks for a certain... morally casual attitude.
ANSWER: "Animal House"
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The only Peckinpah film I remember seeing was The Wild Bunch. Is that it? I can't remember the name of the actor who said those lines, but was it the blonde haired guy who had the hostages in the bank marching around and singing?
The actor was Bo Hopkins
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ANSWER: "Raiders of The Lost Ark"
NEW QUOTE: "You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!"
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QUOTE: "No more rhyming now, I mean it!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
ANSWER: Princess Bride
I can't remember if I posted this one already?
Countess Alexandrovna: You are the greatest lover I've ever had.
Boris: Well, I practice a lot when I'm alone. -
IndyKlipschFan,
My experience with Frank Capra was over 30 years ago so I only remember certain details. My impression of the man was that he was very grandfatherly and not at all "Hollywood". I'm not sure that my father had even seen "It's a Wonderful Life" prior to Mr. Capra's comments at dinner that night. The very next semester he ordered a print of the film in to show to his film class and it's been a family favorite ever since. It was still many years later (when it became public domain?) when Turner started showing it every year on Christmas Eve. When I was growing up everybody watched "Miracle on 34th Street" on TV during the Holidays not "It's a Wonderful Life". Now it seems "A Christmas Story" is Turner's new must see movie during the Holidays.
Dave
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Thank you very much Gentlemen!
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I need to get a copy of a schematic for a type AL crossover for my 1985 LaScalas. If anyone has one of these schematics (or even similar) could you please help a brother out?
Dave
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There are definately some pretty cool experiences listed so far!...As for me:
I've worked in the Film and TV production industry for over 21 years...so I met my share of celebrities over the years.
My father taught film at FSU and occasionally would bring in a guest lecturer for his class and would always bring them home for dinner. When I was about 10 or 11 I sat next to Frank Capra at my family's dinning room table and the only question I could think to ask him was..."What was your favorite movie that you directed?" He answered saying not too many people know this film...but I made a little film called It's a Wonderful Life and that's my favorite". although the film was nearly 30 years old at that time, it had not yet become the Christmas classic that it is today.
In high school I dated 2 time Emmy nominated actress Cheryl Hinds ("Curb Your Enthusiasm" & "RV").
I've opened one of the three locks on the Panama Canal.
I sat between Dickie Betts (guitarist for the Almann Bros.) and Tom Dowd (Legendary Producer) at Criterion Studios while Dickie was recording guitar solo over-dubs...Dickie asked me "How that sound?"...I didn't know what to say.
While shooting behind the scenes footage of a film called "Russkies" for Entertainment Tonight...I was stuck on a camera barge with a half dozen or so extras & crew in a light cold rain (well as cold as it gets off Key West)...Carol King had a small role in the film and she pulled out her guitar and we all huddled together while she sang for us.
Last year when Micheal Mann was in town shooting "Miami Vice" he came by our studio to watch a rough cut of a Miami Vice trailer in our screening room. I didn't really meet him but the sound in our screening room was provided by my Klipsch LaScalas which are on semi permanent loan to the company since I have no room for them in my townhouse.
jt1stcav wrote: "Also went to Miami for two days to shoot a commercial for AFN (the military's Armed Forces Network in Europe), making a chain of paper dolls depicting Marines." .. JT I was the VP of Production for that Production Company (Venture Productions) perhaps we met...SMALL WORLD!
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"Whew! You two smell like you fell into a dung heap..."
"Kinda makes ya homesick dudn' it?"
"Kinda does...."
For a VERY famous movie.
The give-a-way hint: Don Rickles
Hmmmmmm, Tom could it be "Kelly's Heroes", after they entered the town and the "privy" exploded. And since no one guessed on my 6/23 quote it's from "I'm gonna git you sucka" and here's a new one to chew on:
"I know. It, it all sounds like a bad movie".
Gotta be "Top Secret"
Amy's is obviously "Chrimas Vacation"
New Quote: "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving"
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It's got to be a James Cagney film...but I can't nameit:(
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JUST TO KEEP THE THREAD ALIVE...
"My cucumber. It's bigger. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don't you?"
"No, vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous." -
A Fish Called Wanda?
If so, then: It's a fine line between clever, ..and stupid..."
Answer: "This Is Spinal Tap"
New Quote: "The light that burns twice as bright only burns half as long...And you have burned ever so brightly Roy"
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["Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." ]
It's probably my favorite line from "Dr. Strangelove."
A new one: "I don't have to watch it. I lived it."
ANSWER: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
New Quote: "Sometimes I gets the mentral cramps real hard"
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"....I'd kiss ya if I didn't have puke breath."
Take off ehh...that line in from STRANGEBREW.
New Quote: "I'm gonna take that bat, shove it up your @ss and turn you into a popcicle!"
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We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! ...
The Wild Angels...
This same line was sampled at the head of a Soup Dragons tune
"Wake up!...Time to Die"
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My first rock concert was Ritchie Havens in Tully Gymnasium (FSU) in Tallahasse...must have been around '72? I've never seen anyone break so many guitar strings.
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"They're going to make me a major for this, and I'm not even in their f---ing army anymore."
ANSWER: "Apocalypse Now"
"I ain't got time to bleed"
ANSWER: "Predator"
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Many great riffs already mentioned...
Some that come to mind that were not mentioned:
"You Really Got Me" - The Kinks - Dave Davies
"Train Keep a Commin'" (?) - The Yardbirds - Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page(?)
"La Grange" - ZZ Top - Billy Gibbons
"Sultans of Swing" - Dire Straits - Mark Knofler
"Man In a Box" - Alice In Chains - Jerry Cantrell
Who is located in Florida and still has electrical power?
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I lost power at my office in Miami for about 1.5 hours...fortunately we have a generator.