Trip To London

Today the archiving group took the train down to London. We visited PresTech, a film laboratory that specializes in working with archives. Their processes are designed to help archives make quality prints of their holdings with minimal impact on the precious originals. We were taken around the entire lab and introduced to all of the machinery. Won't bore you with all of the VERY SPECIALIZED details (only interesting to the nerdy film-freaks like myself).

The owner of the lab "graded" our negatives from the film shoot, preparing it for striking a workprint that we will use to edit the film. Later, when the editing is done, we will send the negative back to them for final projection prints to made.

It was a bit overwhelming to be in London, since I have not been in a city that size pretty much since we were in LA. "The Tube" (pronounced "Chube" by the locals) was so full of frenetic energy, I sort of didn't know what to do with myself. Sort of a gloomy day, overcast and rainy; but a fun trip.

-RP-