Old Films Are In Demand
Old . films, travelogues, newsreels and foreign productions are no longer relegated to the dustbins in Hollywood. They are salvaged, for the war in Europe has stopped directors obtaining local colour. Truck-loads of old film are being sorted out now and tagged as if they were museum ware. They will keep, though, and far better than films made and developed before ten years ago, which went yellow in no time, unless kept in cool, aired vaults alongside a large piece of camphor. Old film also used to be destroyed and sifted out for nitrates, but now it is anxiously examined to see if it has the lions of Trafalgar Square on it. One studio department head has mile upon mile of views of the city of Bath, England. " If the London Government shifts, it will probably go to Bath," he explained. "And the Stock Exchange will shift to Oxford," he added. "We’ve gone strong on Oxford. We’ve got a mile of it, complete with quadrangles and accents, for, if we ever need it, we shall need it darn bad." In normal times the_ studios keep enough "library stock" in the vaults to last five or six years. Eiffel Tower shots have been about used up, stuff from the Thames is running low, and Warsaw views, pre-war, are unprocurable.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 87, 21 February 1941, Page 16
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