Is There a Run on Kodak Film?

[BAC]

Not according to this article:

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmark ... from=yahoo

A positive quote from the article:

Kodak will file for bankruptcy but will still continue on. American Airlines filed and you can book as many flights as you want. Film as a medium, in my opinion will never go away. It will just get more expensive and scarce. Regardless of what you read/heard/saw in the news, film is still readily available. And to my knowledge, from my Kodak rep, they are still making film. Kodak just released a new motion picture film in the last month! All of the news you read comes from financial analysts who know nothing of film or its availability. It's sensationalism, and honestly, it's getting old.

[carllooper]

The Minyanville article begins with a reference to the Wall Street article, and in that context the Minyanville article quotes Jonathan Canlas, suggesting Canlas is talking about the Wall Street article.

"All of the news you read" is quoted Canlas, "comes from financial analysts who know nothing of film or its availability. It's sensationalism, and honestly, it's getting old."

But nowhere in the Wall Street article does it suggest film availability is in trouble. The Wall Street article suggests Kodak's Chapter 11 move is to find a way around pension obligations (good for Kodak if not employees) and another way for Kodak to shed it's non-film assets.

What is sensationalist is not the Wall Street article but the Minyanville article.

[grainy]

"All of the news you read" is quoted Canlas, "comes from financial analysts who know nothing of film or its availability. It's sensationalism, and honestly, it's getting old."
What is sensationalist is not the Wall Street article but the Minyanville article.

That's for sure. What's getting old is "film is dead".

Super 8 was Dead 20 years ago when it disappeared from drugstores, but today there are places that sell "pro" Super 8 setups, and fill their own S8 cartridges with all sorts of motion picture stock. They're not doing it for fun, they're doing it because there's a demand.

Heck, they've been announcing the Death of Movies ever since radio came along. That sort of journalism is just a noise machine designed to sell papers. They honestly do not care either way, and are not embarrassed if they're selling the same "new" story every year forever.

[MIKI-814]

Yeah... we all know the art of painting dissapeared at the end of the 19th century when photography was invented :mrgreen:

Heck, they've been announcing the Death of Movies ever since radio came along. That sort of journalism is just a noise machine designed to sell papers. They honestly do not care either way, and are not embarrassed if they're selling the same "new" story every year forever.

[Will2]

Of course film will never be "dead."

Even now, where else can you buy an 8k digital camera for less than 5k? 35mm is still practical on many levels.

However we are seeing a fundamental shift in TV and film production to digital. Not because digital is any better, cheaper or easier, but because the CREWS don't want to be left behind. Several shows in the U.S. that were exclusively film have shifted to digital even in a show's last season because the crew/dp's want to be familiar with the digital workflow and have it on their resumé as they look for more work.

Funny that it isn't always an aesthetic or even straight business decision, but sometimes simply a practical survival decision from the crew.

[mr_x]

Photographic emulsion is life blood to me as a film-maker ~ keep it coming Kodak please!