Chris Riley Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Great news for film enthusiasts in Australiasia! Archives New Zealand has reached a deal with Park Road Post Production to take ownership of all film laboratory equipment and set up a new film processing laboratory here in Wellington, New Zealand! This has been approved by the NZ government and is to serve Archives in finishing all their restoration needs in the coming years, but also to provide processing for public use. The Archives are taking the ECN and both B+W Neg and Pos machines (No ECP), a number of printers, cleaners etc. This will be a full service laboratory, employing most of the same people from Park Road. Slated to open around the end of October/start of December 2013. If you have any questions, I'll be glad to try and answer. Cheers, Chris. http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/8851876/Lab-deal-gives-rare-Kiwi-films-new-life 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prashantt Rai Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 This is really a GOOD news for all film lovers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David J Paradise Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Very GOOD news. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeremy Cavanagh Posted June 30, 2013 Premium Member Share Posted June 30, 2013 Great news! I wish my fellow Australians had as much get up and go at an institutional level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 And so, do they have a lab up and running, and do they take jobs from the public. I just rummaged around for half an hour and I could not tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Blackstock Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 This might be considered an update, couldn't find a date Https://www.whconstruction.co.nz/case/archives-nz-film-processing-laboratory-alterations-fitout/ Or try these guys: https://reversalcine.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manu Delpech Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I sent this polite email to Archives NZ... "When Peter Jackson's film lab was being dismantled, Brian Scadden told me that the archive facility was going to include a film processing lab. This lab would be accepting private work. I saw that Watts/Huges construction had done work on the building to house that. Is the lab running? Is it accepting outside work? It's very difficult to find anything on the net...." Talked to Ian, Reversal Cine a couple years ago, sounded like a sincere guy, trying to set up smallish scale processing in Auckland. He will know what;s really going on with Archives NZ. Might contact him soon. Chris Riley, I emailed him very recently on something else, but never heard back. There may not be much to wow about Manu. We'll see. Blame everything on Peter J. (wistful smiley face) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Sorry, that may have been a bit too brief. Peter Jackson inherited (bought) the National Film Unit lab. NFU was a great lab, with every imaginable service. Shortly after, most of the hardware was disposed of. Archives NZ were going to inherit some of that and open a lab, used for archival duties, but accepting private work. NFU also had a lot of production gear that got cherry picked by PJs guys, then the remainder dumped on the local internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Blackstock Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Hello, I received an email the other day from reversal cine n.z and he sent me the following link:https://www.monstervalley.co.nz/super8 I think its great! And they are also running a film festival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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