OT: Harry Potter (was Re: Yet Another cabe Pretty Printer)

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> > Cellulose nitrate hasn't been used for movie film since not
> > long after George Eastman had his company (Eastman Kodak) buy
> > a small company in Kingsport, TN, that produced alcohol by the
> > destructive distillation of wood.  That was in 1929.
> 
> Wrong.  Nitrate film was used for commercial 35mm film distribution
> up until the early 1950s.  Though acetate [safety film] was used
> for home film and non-theatrical films from the 1930s, nitrate
> was used for another 20 years.

Is the Nitrate flim the stuff that degrades really badly?  I seem to
remember the BBC lost a lot of film to degradation.

> I've been a film fan/buff since I knew what it was.  And as a kid
> my parents had bought my brother and I a 16MM projector [silent]
> and we'd get a film for our birthday.  These were the shortened
> versions of such things like the old Abbott & Costello films.

I remember my parents had an 8mm (why do I think "super 8" when I think
of that thing?) and we had several reels, including Mr. Magoo.  I loved
that one as a kid. :) And my vision is getting to be about as good as his
these days. *chuckle* I know it's time to consider wearing contacts again,
despite my last really bad experiences with them, when I change Windows to
display all fonts in "Large Fonts" mode.  :-/

I remember begging them to set that thing up more often--we'd project it
just onto the wall, actually--and play, but it was one of those rarities.
I suppose that's why it's as fond a memory as it is.

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