Movies for TV - Early Television Foundation

NEWSREELS FOR TV 291
Fig. 15-2. The Houston model 11B processing equipment showing
internal arrangement of rollers and passage of film through
tanks.
hours, particularly if special arrangements
are made with the
company concerned. Processing at the station is apt to be expensive
and it will take many years to amortize the equipment. If there
is enough work in the town from amateurs or other users of 16
mm film then it might be worth while, or if a franchise can be
obtained from one of the large movie companies, but usually the
latter prefer to do their own work so that it can be properly controlled.
Another point that is highly important fine-grain work
is required and even if a laboratory is near it may not be able to
turn out work which is suitable for the television screen. In an
emergency film can be developed in a milk bottle in the bathroom