Omar Alboukharey Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 As the title says, I cant seem to find any information on how to achieve this but yet there are services out there that perforates such medium. One stock inparticular is the Vision3 500T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Millar Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Ring Kodak and ask them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted July 9, 2014 Premium Member Share Posted July 9, 2014 Well I'm certain you could buy a master roll from them..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 (edited) ... but you would then have enough stock for about 25,000 Super-8 cartridges or 600,000ft of 16mm. I doubt anyone but Kodak could slit and perforate a master roll. They're a nautical mile long. Edited July 9, 2014 by Mark Dunn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Tuohy Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Many people have enquired with kodak about unperforated film. To my knowledge no one has ever succeeded. But the world keeps changing. You would need to expect that any positive answer came with a lot of zeroes in the price. A lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 A lot of zeroes on the weight too. Over half a ton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Peich Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Mel Brooks was once asked: "What is the toughest thing about making a film?" Brooks replied: "Putting in the little holes. The sprocket holes are the hardest thing to make. Everything else is easy, but all night you have to sit with that little puncher and make the holes on the side of the film. You could faint from that work. The rest is easy: the script is easy, the acting is easy, the directing is a breeze… but the sprockets will tear your heart out." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Alboukharey Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 Thanks for the replies guys! I was hoping to obtain just 400ft of unperforated Vision3 500T. Reperforating services do exist by a company called Wittner Cinetec in Germany. I have emailed/contacted them about this and they do provide it so long either the 16mm or 35mm film is unperforated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted July 10, 2014 Premium Member Share Posted July 10, 2014 Chances are you might get non-perf stock from FilmoTec but they offer black and white exclusively. Just to tell Ferrania could be interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Alboukharey Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 I have got in contact with the people you've mentioned, and I have been passed around a couple of times. No luck yet. Is it just not possible to re-perforated an already perfed 35mm film??? Surely you can get Super8 film from that right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Cunningham Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 You can get 3 strips of Super8 from a single strip of 35mm motion picture film. That's how Pro8mm and Spectra make theirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Alboukharey Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 How does Pro8mm and Spectra receive their film perhaps? Perfed or Non-perfed? Either way, do you reckon it is possible to get it in bulk from them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Cunningham Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 They get 1000 ft 35mm camera negative on core. It is perfed. You can order this yourself direct from Kodak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Alboukharey Posted October 30, 2014 Author Share Posted October 30, 2014 They get 1000 ft 35mm camera negative on core. It is perfed. You can order this yourself direct from Kodak. Hi David, sorry for the very late response, But I must know... Do you know or think that Spectra provides a service to perforate 35mm film? And at a good price perhaps?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Millar Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Ring Spectra and ask them? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Alboukharey Posted October 30, 2014 Author Share Posted October 30, 2014 I'm from the UK, and I just shot them an email :D Perhaps, might you or anyone else here know anyone that does re-perforation services??? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Cunningham Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Neither Pro8mm nor Spectra offer cut down and perf services anymore. I've asked them both. Even when they did, it was crazy expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Alboukharey Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Ohhhh man...that's terrible! Isn't there anywhere else or anyone who could possibly do them??? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Tuohy Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Pro 8 are the only people in the world at up to perforate perforated 35mm to super8. indeed I wonder if anyone else has ever done it commercially. I once had wittner do a test for me of perforating a 100 ft roll of perforated 35. Their perforator is for perfing unperforated 35. They were able to get 2 x super 8 from that. The other two had 35mm perforations. The thing is those perforations made it difficult for them to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Tuohy Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Pro 8 are the only people in the world at up to perforate perforated 35mm to super8. indeed I wonder if anyone else has ever done it commercially. I once had wittner do a test for me of perforating a 100 ft roll of perforated 35. Their perforator is for perfing unperforated 35. They were able to get 2 x super 8 from that. The other two had 35mm perforations. The thing is those perforations made it difficult for them to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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