Movie Making Manual/Cinematography/Cameras and Formats/Celluloid

This Module is part of the Cinematography section of the Movie Making Manual

Note that wikipedia has some excellent articles on celluloid that we should not try to replicate, instead we should point to these articles

How celluloid works

• Super 8mm Film
• 16mm Film
• 35mm Film
• 70mm Film
• IMAX

2 perf 35mm

For a general description of 2-perf 35mm, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-perf_pulldown#2-perf

Suppliers of 2-perf cameras

• Solid Entertainment (based in Malmo in Southern Sweden)
• Mark Hope-Jones, mhope-jones@arrimedia.com (London, UK)

Costs

GBP:

footage per minute:
1min @ 25fps on 4-perf 35mm = 93.8ft
1min @ 25fps on 2-perf 35mm = 46.2ft
1min @ 25fps on s16mm = 37.5ft

stock costs (new):
400ft of 35mm 5218 (Kodak Vision2 500T) = £142.80
400ft of 16mm 7218 (Kodak Vision2 500T) =  £80.33

developing (Technicolor):
16mm = 9p/foot
35mm = 11.5p/foot

So, the total costs per minute for stock + dev @ 25fps: 

4-perf 35mm = £44.27
2-perf 35mm = £21.81
super-16mm  = £10.91

External Links

• Why Do Images Captured on Celluloid Have A Sort of Glossy Look When Well Mastered DV Footage Doesn't? - from UKFilm.org