Alphacine auction tomorrow

[woods01]

Might be of interest to some or none but Seattle's late great Alphacine is holding an auction tomorrow:

http://murphyauction.com/Auction/Details/556

Amongst the photos is the ViewMaster mounting machine that was an important part of their business as motion picture production declines. I wonder who else can make ViewMaster reels and how long that will last in this market?

[BAC]

I hope that stuff finds a good home rather than the scrap bin. I do make my own View-master reels but not with a machine like that 8O .

[Tscan]

They're selling everything down to the coffee maker. but I dont see their film scanner or ultrasonic film cleaner listed.

[woods01]

The optical printer apparently had been stripped of many useful parts like film gates. So someone picked over their equipment for a possible digital film service. Maybe Lightpress bought their film cleaner? Their main business is archival work and a the lack of local film cleaning would be problematic for them.

An artist film group bought a few of those other machines so they didn't all go to the scrap heap!

[grainy]

The optical printer apparently had been stripped of many useful parts like film gates. So someone picked over their equipment for a possible digital film service. Maybe Lightpress bought their film cleaner? Their main business is archival work and a the lack of local film cleaning would be problematic for them.

An artist film group bought a few of those other machines so they didn't all go to the scrap heap!

Woods - do you happen to know which group it was that bought the other machines? Local, inquiring minds want to know!
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[woods01]

Grainy, these guys bought the optical printer and contact printer: http://processreversal.org/

However I believe they are shipping the stuff to upper New York state where they have a workspace/barn.

[grainy]

Ah, too bad http://processreversal.org/ is in NY -- it looks like they've got a very cool mission, we'd love to have them here in Seattle.
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