Telephone 978.948.7985 (Northeastern Massachusetts, 9-6 EST please) for high quality, scene by scene wet-gate transfer of 8mm, Super 8mm or 16mm movie film. In brief: We work on camera original reversal film only. We make Beta SP or Digital Betacam masters, scene by scene, with wet gate. Special handling of selects, shrunken or deteriorated original, or unusual sound sources. No negative, no prints. By appointment only, so call Toni to estimate and schedule your work before shipping film. Please scroll down the rest of this page for details before calling. Thank you.
Historic or artistic frame rates
Inspection, Repairs, Hand Cleaning
Instructions for producers on selecting and marking shots
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Our speciality is very high quality transfers of CAMERA ORIGINAL REVERSAL FILM and only that. We handle Regular or Standard 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm gauges, including film which is quite shrunken or deteriorated. We do not work on negative filmstock at all and prefer not to work on print material unless you particularly need us to handle a sole surviving copy. We love black & white or color reversal film, especially the venerable, beautiful Kodachrome movie film (which is still available from Kodak!) We work on motion picture film that is new or old, archival, shrunken, deteriorated or damaged for artists, archivists, and television producers.
Our work is FULLY COMPONENT ANALOG or DIGITAL with SCENE-BY-SCENE COLOR IMPROVEMENTS and CONTRAST CONTROL. WE ALWAYS USE WET-GATE for SCRATCH SUPPRESSION unless by arrangement with the artist on an artist's hand painted original.OUR SERVICES
Bob Brodsky works to REVEAL the DETAILS in REVERSAL FILM which is quite contrasty by nature because it was designed as direct projection material.
WHO NEEDS OUR TRANSFER SERVICES?
WE MAKE THE MASTER ON NORTH AMERICAN STANDARD (NTSC) BROADCAST TELEVISION FORMATS OF BETACAM-SP or DIGITAL BETACAM. This assures that you have a robust medium on the shelf besides your real treasure, the more durable original film. Your motion picture film, when stored properly---cool and dry--is expected to endure and be able to be retrieved centuries longer than current electronic media. Using the analog or digital Betacam master videotapes that we make, other versions can be made like VHS or DVD for sharing with family or friends for home viewing, window dubs for research, or mini-DV or DV-CAM for computer desktop editing. Our sister site LittleFilm.org has instrcutions and recommendations on how you annotate reels, gather additional information, store original film and access, edit or share the contents of these remarkable films.
WORK BEGINS WITH VOICE CONTACT
FOR DEFINING, SCHEDULING AND ESTIMATING YOUR NEEDS,
PLEASE CALL Toni Treadway, tel: 978-948-7985 (9-6 EST)
Brodsky & Treadway, att: Toni Treadway, tel: 978-948-7985 (9-6 EST)
69 Warehouse Lane
Post Office Box 335
Rowley, MAssachusetts 01969 USA
On artists films, WE REPRESENT DESIGNATED FRAME RATES, VARIABLE FROM 1 TO 24 FRAMES PER SECOND as instructed by the artist or the director.
WE CAN TRANSFER SHRUNKEN OR DETERIORATED ORIGINAL 8mm, SUPER 8 OR 16mm reversal MATERIALS. THIS IS OUR SPECIALITY.
WE TRANSFER SYNC SOUND from "all the usual suspects"
including
SINGLE SYSTEM SOUND-on-FILM
1 track or 2 track or stereo sound on film;
MAGNETIC 8mm, Super 8,
FULLCOAT 8mm, Super 8,
OPTICAL or MAGNETIC 16mm,
FULLCOAT 16mm interlocked,
and
SOUNDTRACKS FROM OTHER SOURCES
LIKE OPEN REEL AUDIO TAPE, AUDIO CASSETTE.
We can do sync corrections in the above formats.
We work by appointment only. Most often we transfer and ship work on the same day when scheduled in advance with you. Please plan your production carefully. We encourage you to book time with us 10 days in advance, or longer if the job is large.
We ask for a check as deposit on the work in advance based on our estimate. We are very old-fashioned; we do not accept credit cards. If you have overpaid, we will refund the balance immediately. Small balances due are often billed. We reserve the right to add a surcharge for work performed with less than 48 hours notice, for nights, weekends or for jobs requiring unusual or extra documentation. If you are reasonable to work with you may well avoid surcharges.
We transfer original materials which are usually carried to us in the hands of the original owners. If you are asking for service on a film not made or owned by you, we need you to get permission and clear all rights and releases prior to working with us. We infer that your contracting for our work implies that you have the rights to copy the material.
Your films have artistic, historic and sentimental value to you or even perhaps monetary value to your production. We treat your films with great care while they are in our hands, but we do not assume responsibility for loss or damage to your films while they are in our possession nor in transit. Common carriers have advised us they will not insure films for content but will only insure for replacement value of raw filmstock.
In some instances the films need to be hand carried in which case a supervised transfer session is recommended. Supervision can save you money if you have done the work to be very familiar with the footage, have organized it and assembled it. In some cases, a documentary producer will want selected shots from a very large collection. In this paper, we recommend ways (unique to our studio) of organizing and marking the selects which can speed the work along. Instructions for producers on selecting and marking shots.
Brodsky & Treadway have handled unique original film materials for filmmakers and institutions as diverse as these:
Jem Cohen, Joe Gibbons, Saul Levine, Poli Marichal, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Michael Stipe, Sanjiban, Rea Tajiri......as many as 300 artists a year for two decades.
Orlando Bagwell ("Malcolm X: Make It Plain"), Ken Burns, Natatcha Estebanez, Glenn Holsten, Lawrence Hott ("Imagining Robert"), Spike Lee ("Four Little Girls"), Ricardo Mendez-Matta,
Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine" first documentary invited to Cannes), Bill Moyers, David Sutherland...
For 20 years we have handled the historic personal film records that are unique footage in the series Frontline, The American Experience, Eyes on the Prize, Nova, Zoom, P.O.V.on Public Television and ABC's The Twentieth Century. We like to say that if you see old home movies in documentary films with good shadow detail, looking clean, scratch-free and with the movement on screen at the right frame rate, it is likely we transferred it. But, when Super 8 is used for a flashy, degraded or a trendy look in a cutaway, it is likely we did NOT handle it.
The Smithsonian Institution, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, George Eastman House, The Japanese American National Museum, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the J.F.K. Library, The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library, Yivo Institute, local historical commissions, state and private family archives.
1 hour minimum, day rates for training archives staff. Call.
Rates by the hour and then quarter hour increments for evaluation, condition reports, recommendations, reel assembly, repairs, re-splicing, removing mildew and reconditioning as required. Call.
We provide new Fuji (only Fuji) videotape at cost. We transfer to NTSC Beta-SP or Digital Betacam.
If time allows, we can make a single viewing copy of the Beta or DBeta master on miniDV, DVCam, DVD or VHS (straight or window dub) but we prefer you use tape duplication houses in your area for making multiple dubs.
We track all packages in and out, so you must call before shipping with carrier and tracking number. We handle original materials which are irreplaceable.
Master videotape and original film are shipped separately for safety. This insures that an original film and master video are never in the same airplane, truck or location in transit.
Please telephone us to work out strategy for delivery so we know shipper, trcking numbers and date of arrival. We highly recommend services with tracking and signatures, like FedEx Express, USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation, or UPS air service.
Please pack film in a cardboard box with adequate padding. Never ship any media, film, audio or videotape in a fiber-filled bag; NEVER!
Rowley is a town 35 miles north northeast of Boston, bisected by Interstate Route 95. We live and work near the Plum Island Great Marsh east of old Route 1-A. We work a lot of the time so we cannot encourage drop-in visitors. Please call for an appointment.
Contact B&TInstructions for producers on marking selects.
NEED MORE INFO? Please visit our sister site www.LittleFilm.org as there we have information about small gauge filmmaking today, lists of labs as well as tips on restoration and preservation of old home movies, independent film and artist's films.
Call please us about film transfers, Tel: 978 948 7985 from 9-6 EST and if you reach a message machine, leave your name, your phone number, region and best hours to reach you and any technical details. Thank you, Toni & Bob
