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From: alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: The Cutting Room Floor
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 13:08:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 13:08:46 1984
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It's not strictly true that what you see on the screen is made from a
copy of the original negative (an "interneg" or CRI).  A lot of older
movies were cut directly from the camera negative.  This practice (done
of course because (a) it's cheaper and (b) it looks better) has died
down somewhat because of the Great Yelow Box (Kodak) has put out much
better interneg stock than it used to.  

3-strip Technicolor (where RGB or complement prints are made) is only
done in China and Britain and only seldom there.  Because of "progress",
Technicolor sold all its eqpt off to their foreign bureaus.

Don't count on magnetic copies of films to survive, either.  Ten years
is a good upper limit on the reliability of most videotape, unless it's
stored off-planet.  Just hope that people get REAL digital video/audio
out in time to save The Evening News.

Alex