Thought I’d come back here with a follow up to my original post.
Long story short, I liberated (and am still in the process of hauling them all out) a big stash of 16mm feature films from the basement of a library in southern RI a few weeks ago. Stuff like, but not limited to:
The 39 Steps
The 400 Blows
8 ½
The Bicycle Thief
The Brotherhood
Casablanca
Dressed to Kill
Gone With The Wind
The Grand Illusion
Islands in the Stream
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Lady Vanishes
“M”
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Metropolis
Murder on The Orient Express
Night of the Living Dead
The Third Man
etc, etc!
I also now have an arsenal of nicely working 16mm projectors (Eikis and Elmos, all slotloaders).
We’ll be showing Night of the Living Dead around Halloween next month to celebrate this find.
Thanks for the responses! We do have a public performance license (through a subsidiary of Swank) and also have the capability to, and have been showing, movies projected from DVDs. While DVD will remain as our go-to format out of necessity, I do think it would be fun to organize 16mm / 35 screenings occasionally. I suppose it’s just the librarian / archivist in me, wanting to utilize those classic formats…real books (not ipads or kindles!), vinyl records, real film…!
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Thought I’d come back here with a follow up to my original post.
Long story short, I liberated (and am still in the process of hauling them all out) a big stash of 16mm feature films from the basement of a library in southern RI a few weeks ago. Stuff like, but not limited to:
The 39 Steps The 400 Blows 8 ½ The Bicycle Thief The Brotherhood Casablanca Dressed to Kill Gone With The Wind The Grand Illusion Islands in the Stream It’s A Wonderful Life The Lady Vanishes “M” The Man Who Knew Too Much Metropolis Murder on The Orient Express Night of the Living Dead The Third Man
etc, etc!
I also now have an arsenal of nicely working 16mm projectors (Eikis and Elmos, all slotloaders).
We’ll be showing Night of the Living Dead around Halloween next month to celebrate this find.
Here’s some press on it:
http://www2.turnto10.com/entertainment/2011/sep/14/classic-films-discovered-library-basement-ar-738641/
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/127226-providence-community-librarys-16mm-surprise/
http://www2.turnto10.com/entertainment/2011/sep/14/classic-films-discovered-library-basement-ar-738641/
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wrni/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1852868/news/Film.cache.discovered
Thanks for the responses! We do have a public performance license (through a subsidiary of Swank) and also have the capability to, and have been showing, movies projected from DVDs. While DVD will remain as our go-to format out of necessity, I do think it would be fun to organize 16mm / 35 screenings occasionally. I suppose it’s just the librarian / archivist in me, wanting to utilize those classic formats…real books (not ipads or kindles!), vinyl records, real film…!