#nitrate films

[redhairclara]

Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers in Get Your Man, 1927.

Get Your Man is the only silent film directed by Dorothy Arzner that has not been lost to time. Her other films Manhattan Cocktail and Ten Modern Commandments are lost. Meanwhile, Get Your Man has four out of its six reels that survive.

[that-butch-archivist]

A still from Nitrate Kisses, produced by Barbara Hammer

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[leatherlesbianstuff]

Stills from Nitrate Kisses (1992) by Barbara Hammer

[filmnoirfoundation]

Don't miss the closing weekend of NOIR CITY Hollywood, Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode in person. NIGHTMARE ALLEY will screen in nitrate. Tix and full festival schedule: https://bit.ly/3Ij9Mc2

[thinkingimages]

courtesy of George Eastman House Motion Picture Department Collection.

Italian film historian Davide Turconi collected 35mm nitrate film clippings, which are now part of the Davide Turconi Project. Joshua Yumibe has provided a selection of clips in the advanced stages of nitrate decomposition. Joshua states "such frames make up a relatively small yet remarkable portion of the collection. As these shapes and hues have tragically faded in disintegrating emulsion, we are left with fragments that, through the workings of time, have transmuted into breathtaking images akin to abstract works of art." The 23,491 clippings are housed at the George Eastman House. Joshua's book, Moving Color, is influenced by the project's account of early color films. (via 50watts)

[zurich-snows]

A Nitrate Noctourne from the Turconi Collection

This database is a record of the 35mm nitrate film frame clippings collected by Italian film historian Davide Turconi (1911-2005) from the Josef Joye Collection in Switzerland and from other unidentified sources. The collection consists of 23,491 clippings in total (usually two to three frames each). The vast majority of the frames cover the early years of cinema (from ca. 1897 to 1915); however, some items in the collection represent films produced as late as 1944.

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Upon inspection, Turconi found many of the prints to be in advanced stages of decomposition. He arranged for some of the Italian films to be duplicated on safety film stock in Italy, and approached a number of other archives to preserve the rest of the collection. However, given the expenses involved with a large number of prints, no institution could undertake such a project at the time. Finding no means of saving the collection as a whole, Turconi resorted to a desperate step: he cut frames from the films and carefully organized them in envelopes by title and date (when identifiable) in order to preserve in fragments what he feared would soon disappear. Fortunately, many of the remaining prints did survive, and in 1976 — at the instigation of British filmmaker David Mingay — the remainder of the Joye Collection was rescued by David Francis, then Curator of the National Film Archive at the British Film Institute in London.

More info ::  https://50watts.com/Nitrate-Nocturne-2

[adornesibley]

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Dog illustration “Evil Dog” by Stanislav Duminskiy https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LeR5bK

[unsertraumschiff]

Why did nobody tell me nitrate film smells so fucking bad when it’s been deteriorating for 70 years (this information is easily available via a google search I just didn’t know until I experienced it firsthand just now)

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

undated nitrate film

[mtonino]

Voi non andate al cinema? Allora il Cinema andrà da voi!

Nitrato d'Argento (1996) Marco Ferreri

@pigscreen

[rrrauschen]

Mário Peixoto, {1931} Limite

[iodos84]

Last night, I finished Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia and it is a fantastic book. Probably one of my favorites of hers. I downloaded the Shuffles collage app and made one for the book. Maybe I should start doing book collages as a journal or something.

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY Hollywood starts tonight at the American Cinematheque! Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode in person. Opening Night Cocktail Reception - 6 pm | NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR (1952) / THE WINDOW (1949) 🎞️ - 7:30pm Tickets and schedule are available on the American Cinematheque’s website: https://bit.ly/3Ij9Mc2

NOIR CITY: Hollywood returns to the newly restored Egyptian Theatre, March 22- 31. The festival will be celebrating its 25th anniversary at the American Cinematheque with a killer lineup of twenty-three films. We will be presenting a series of double features, pairing international films with more familiar English-language ones containing similar themes. This global adventure of noir cinema comprises twelve 35mm prints (including a glorious Nitrate print of Nightmare Alley) and special guests.

Highlights include an opening night reception prior to the screening of No abras nunca esa puerta / Never Open That Door (1952, Argentina), a digital restoration performed by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding by the Film Noir Foundation. A FNF funded 35mm print of The Window (1949) follows. Both films are based on stories by the pulp fiction master Cornell Woolrich. Closing night features the West Coast premiere of the new 4K digital restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samouraï (1967).

The Film Noir Foundation’s president Eddie Muller and board member Alan K. Rode will be on hand opening night, Eddie will introduce No abras nunca esa Puerta and Alan will introduce The Window. Eddie will introduce the rest of the opening weekend films and return for the closing weekend to introduce the Friday, Saturday and Sunday screenings except for New York Confidential which will be introduced by Alan who will also be introducing all the weekday screenings.

[thinkingimages]

A roll of 35mm cellulose nitrate motion picture film in very deteriorated condition © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Nitrate film yellows and curls as it deteriorates, and it produces a strong acrid odour. The smell of nitrate film deterioration can be distinguished from acetate film deterioration known as vinegar syndrome after its characteristic vinegar odour. Otherwise, to the untrained eye, nitrate film is often difficult to distinguish from other non-flammable photographic film.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Silver Nitrate

slow supernatural mystery set in Mexico City in the 90s

a sound editor and faded soap opera star who’ve been lifelong friends, find out that a neighbour is a director who was involved in a cult horror film that was intended to be imbued with magic by a Nazi occultist

he’s convinced that he’s cursed by it being unfinished, and if they help him finish it he’ll be safe, but as they start to learn more about it they start seeing ghosts and being followed…

bi MCs, disabled MC

[rodglacial]

Livre POLAR80 (Décembre 2023)