Filip Plesha Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Which film processors do companies like technicolor and deluxe use? Who manufactures them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 There's not that many made frankly. They're special one-of machines. I know the new lab in NYC, Moving Images, bought a processing system from a company in England. That company flew a couple of guys over to install it. It takes up three rooms and they had to re-enforce the floors with steel beams to support the chemical tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Kevin Zanit Posted January 17, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted January 17, 2004 Not to mention the staff needed . . . I know most labs keep a chemist onsite full time. Always checking the soup. My uncle works over at Magnofilms (well Lab-Link), I know that lab takes 3 stories in a smallish building. Not a simple process. Kevin Zanit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc_Abernathy Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 interesting info guys, i've always wondered how huge these things were... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeSelinsky Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 The larger a machine is, the faster they can process the film. The ECN 2 process takes about 20 or so minutes, so after that first twenty minutes, if their processor rate is like 500 feet per minute, you can process a lot of film per hour. Houston Fearless used to make the movie lab standard continuous line processing machines, don't know if they still do or not. Not too long ago I even saw such a machine on ebay for sale. There were more of these companies around, I imagine, when news used to be shot on film - back then some TV stations would have their own in house processing machines so they wouldn't have to make a separate run to the lab after a day's news shoot. Most of those machines have been scrapped, probably. If you're talking about the sort of stuff used for small batch processing, check out my webpage at http://www.geocities.com/gselinsky where I offer some info on the subject. I have some postings there by Martin Baumgarten who is an MP processing guru. - G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Hamrick Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 How well I remember Houston Fearless.Anyone still use Pekos anymore? Marty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Pytlak RIP Posted January 22, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted January 22, 2004 The Kodak website has links to equipment suppliers, including processing machines: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/industry/industryRes.shtml Here are just a few of the manufacturers: http://www.calderequipment.demon.co.uk/ http://www.ctmsolutions.com/sommaire_web_module_debrie.php http://www.filmlab.com.au/ http://www.rti-us.com/lipsner.html http://www.photomec.co.uk/ http://www.utecgmbh.de/ http://www.houstonfearless.com http://www.pakor.com/web-pakor.com/servlet...talog?catalog=1 Technical Film Systems (Manfred "Mike" Michelson) is a major supplier too. All you wanted to know about motion picture processing: B) http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/processing/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 http://www.calderequipment.demon.co.uk/ FYI, this is the British firm I referred to as supplying the processing equipment for The Lab at Moving Images in NYC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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