Roy Cross

Thank you for the photos, Dom! Do you know of a tech in North America who can lubricate an Arri S? Roy in Montreal, Canada

Late applications worth trying!

Kamran! Amazing! So excited by this development. I was considering having my Arri S modified with the XLR power input as the original power cable is so wonky and unreliable. Working with Friedemann must have been fun. He's an inventive and intelligent guy! Now I just have to sell something to come up with the USD! Congratulations! Roy

Hi, Completely biased opinion as I am a faculty member here at The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Come check us out, small classes, tonnes of A+ equipment (Arriflex Alexa 35s, RED Raptors, 5.1 mix studio) great bilingual city, great support. The Program: https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/cinema/programs/film-production.html How to Apply (undergrad): Denis Villeneuve pays a visit to Mel Hoppenheim School of CInema: https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/finearts/2024/11/8/denis-villeneuve-inspires-concordia-students-in-visit-to-mel-hop.html Deadline is March 3, 2024. If not this year, then try next year! Roy Cross Professor, Film Production

Thanks! Never would have been able to identify those cars. Great split windscreen on the Pobeda.

Nice job! Daughter going off to school, perhaps! I wonder if any European members can identify the make and year of that car. I'm curious to know how long that film sat in the camera!

Hi Doug, Lot has happened here on this thread since I last checked in! I guess there is always a possibility that in 10 years I may want to use the film. But I have carried some of this negative since the late 1980s, and dragged it across 4000 kilometres as I moved east. Always with the thought, "well, I might want to do something with this some day..." That some day has never come. I have ample resources to transfer footage, yet I have never gone back. Except once. I shot and edited a short film around the time I left my ex-partner in 2009. The editing was a mess and rushed and, well, it's not that great. So, in 2016, I pulled out the negative and had it scanned at 2K planning to re-edit the film. Well, it's still waiting on a hard drive somewhere for that "redux" to begin. I know that I have footage, particularly of Montreal, that does not exist anymore. But nothing overly unique, I don't think. I also don't feel responsible to the future or anyone in it with regard to my work. I found all the elements (A&B rolls, optical track, final magnetic mix) from my early 16 mm films, so should I ever want to pull new prints that is possible. I also have all the 35 mm elements from my two other films. As it stands, I don't even have HD scans of the analog films. Now that I say that, I think I will get scans of the 16 mm films, and the 35 mm feature and have that for occasional viewing. If I were to ever go back, I would re-mix the soundtrack on two of the 16 mm films. If I really wanted to, I could keep these boxes in my bedroom, stacked against a wall. But I don't want to look at them. Be reminded that they are waiting around for me to "do something" with them. That feels like a burden. Furthermore, that footage is a reflection of who I was then (as are the completed films). I'm not sure if I need to go back and revisit thirty-year old me and the images I made. It's not an entirely joyful process, there is some sadness and maybe even a bit of mourning throughout the process. And I like the idea that my sons don't have to dig through all that and wonder what to keep after I am dead. I'll keep a few rolls of home movie stuff for them to marvel at. But I was thinking that maybe now I have the green light to go and make some more images! Thank you to everyone who weighed in!!!

Hi Charles, Thank you for the offer. All the fiction stuff (a lot) has actors on camera, I don't feel it keeps in the spirit with which they were made to give it away for some other use. There is a fair amount of home movie stuff that I shot with my sons. That stuff I need to decide if it is worth digitizing. The rest of the footage is diary type stuff, stuff shot while travelling, or landscape images. As it stands, I am throwing it out. I'll figure out what to do with the footage of my sons and their mom. They grew up in a videotape/digital world, so there is ample coverage of birthdays and first days of school, etc in a video format. It has been an interesting experiment/experience. A bit of sadness and grief, but also relief and even a little joy.

Yes. Pretty much! I just need a bit of help getting beyond the attachment so I can do just that. Thank you, Simon.

I'm in the midst of downsizing. Cleaning out the vaults of equipment and negative. I have numerous 35mm Russian cameras, a handful of Bolexes, and about 100,000 feet of 16 mm and 35 mm negative and 25 hours of work print from things I've made over the years. A lot of it is diary footage, but also a tonne of production from on-set shoots. A lot of the work print is on small cores, 200-300 foot rolls, poorly labelled. I have a flatbed and could catalogue it and archive it and revise it onto 1500/2000 foot cores. Which would make storing it easier and maybe even finding something if I so wished. But the thing is, do I need this? My work is marginal at best. I doubt I will be looked upon with any historical significance. I also doubt I will ever dig into this stuff. (Although, I do feel as though, I could make a dozen short "found footage" films from the pickings.) But I'm not eve sure I have the stamina for that. Feels like a retrospective way of working. I'd rather work with new images, made by the person I am now, rather than who I was. But still, it is really difficult to let go of this stuff. Does anyone have any insight or zen tips to help me work through this?

Super. Thanks!

Hello Aaron, Can I ask who did your conversion and at what price? Thanks! Roy

Hi Rick, I sent you an email.

Hi, As it says, looking to purchase 35mm Arri III, four perf, PL mount. With CE base, a couple of magazines, no video assist needed. Already in contact with Visual Products, looking for other resellers. Thanks! Roy in Montreal

Thanks, Dom!