Gotham Photochemical GPC

Take a look at Alphabet Roll Call, a short animated film by legend Wah Ming Chang! 16mm Print, Scanned at 2K by Gotham Photochemical! https://vimeo.com/322319986

Check out Jelani Aryeh and Morian Thomas 16mm music video Union Station! Scan by Gotham Photochemical https://youtu.be/yspo2BCM8eU

Stills from Gotham’s Restoration of Magic City 1944. Kodachrome 16mm footage of New York. Making 16mm-35mm Blowup Prints. #Gotham #Photochemical #Preservation

Gotham’s new 16mm Restoration is Magic City 1944. Kodachrome 16mm footage of New York. Making 16mm-35mm Blowup Prints. #Gotham #Photochemical #Preservation

It was Gotham’s Pleasure to Manufacture Anamorphic 35mm Show Prints of Campari Commercial Precious Thyme directed by Blake West. https://vimeo.com/276085827 #35mmPrints #Gotham #Photochemical

Koda - Nazareth Film Scanning by GPC! https://youtu.be/7Wm9A9Pwc14

There has never been a better time to shoot on film and project on film! Prints from Gotham- try one and be enchanted forever!

Be sure to check out a few of the great projects we’re working on! #Film #Restoration #16mm #35mm #70mm https://www.gpclab.com/restoration-remastering/

Pierrot le Fou was released on this day in 1965. Godard's pop art color palette was photographed in Techniscope by Raoul Coutard, who lensed many of the most famous classics of the French New Wave.

Out of the Vault and into the Lab! #Fujifilm #35mm #Restoration

Starting a new restoration of never before seen Beatles footage! Very honored to have been chosen for this project. New 35mm prints on the way from Gotham! #film #digitization #printing #35mm #gpc #beatles

Starting 4K Restoration on one of Jack Nicholson’s first movies ever! Too Soon to Love (1960) in which he plays a Greaser Thug. New 35MM Prints on the way! #scanning #printing #restoration #gpc

On October 15th, 1940, Charlie Chaplin’s THE GREAT DICTATOR premiered in New York City. It was photographed by Karl Struss and Chaplin’s regular cameraman, Roland Rollie Totheroh. Karl Struss was not only the Academy-award winning cinematographer of Murnau’s SUNRISE, but he also pioneered many early camera techniques and inventions. Along with the eloquent tracking and forced perspective shots in SUNRISE, he also developed photographic inventions like the "Lupe Light" (a... soft-frost bulb in a reflector on a movable arm, positioned below camera. It provided a shadow-less fill and eye-light) and a new bracket system for the Bell & Howell camera. On BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST, ‘Karl Struss photographed many sequences that were to be re-shot, including that of the healing of the lepers. This sequence utilized an in-camera effect that Struss devised; he used green make-up on the actors, filming the scene with a red filter in the camera matte box, causing the skin to photograph black. He then slowly slid a green filter of the same density across the lens, replacing the red one as the camera continued to roll; it made the make-up photograph pale, as if the lepers were miraculously cleansed. All the knowledge of filters and mattes that Struss had acquired in his New York days served him to great advantage in Hollywood. Struss bridled at his second-place credit on 'Ben-Hur'. He said he had shot at least 50% of the finished film; Guissart got top billing only because he had a first place clause in his contract that Struss did not know about. Struss photographed many of the two-color Technicolor sequences for the film.' - John Bailey, ASC

This day in film history On October 11th, 1968, Roger Vadim’s BARBARELLA was released. It was photographed in Anamorphic Panavision by Claude Renoir, nephew of Jean Renoir. Claude Renoir was renowned for his use of color cinematography, especially in his uncle’s groundbreaking 1951 film, THE RIVER, set in India and long regarded by many, including Martin Scorsese, as one of the most beautiful of all color films. The Times of London wrote: " 'The River,' with its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."