Movie Making Manual/Cinematography/Cameras and Formats/Celluloid

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