Wadkin Archive Footage

[Trevanion]

I've posted this in another thread already but I thought some of the Wadkin/General Machine geeks here would like it if they haven't already seen it. From the golden age of Wadkin equipment.

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[wallace]

Me being a bit weird bought about 20 reals of 16mm wadkin footage. I looked into getting them transferred to digital but is was too costly. The second plan was to buy a projector and record them with a decent camcorder. Unfortunately the projector I got was a lemon and needs a new drive spiral gear. So if we have any budding cine owners in the house any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Trevanion]

Me being a bit weird bought about 20 reals of 16mm wadkin footage. I looked into getting them transferred to digital but is was too costly. The second plan was to buy a projector and record them with a decent camcorder. Unfortunately the projector I got was a lemon and needs a new drive spiral gear. So if we have any budding cine owners in the house any help would be much appreciated.

You know way more than me about this so what were they doing with the footage? I know they were using it as a selling point but I imagine they weren't sending this stuff out to machine dealers to show their customers?

 

[wallace]

Wadkin had lots of reps who would travel around and I think the films could be used to promote their products. I saw some really early bursgreen promotional 3D slides in a viewer once showing the workshops at fence houses. The level of detail the double slides had was unreal. You could tell from what era they were taken because the last slide was of a scantily clad woman. To presumably brake the ice when negotiating a deal.

 

[KT_NorCal]

Me being a bit weird bought about 20 reals of 16mm wadkin footage. I looked into getting them transferred to digital but is was too costly. The second plan was to buy a projector and record them with a decent camcorder. Unfortunately the projector I got was a lemon and needs a new drive spiral gear. So if we have any budding cine owners in the house any help would be much appreciated.

Not sure if you guys have Costco over there, but if you do ask their photo department about it... We had a ton of old family movies that my aunt got transferred there, it came out well and I seem to remember it wasn't very spendy...