Question - you said it could be scanned if you brought the scanner to him - what if we paid to fly him out to the scanner instead? If that were possible it’d cost a lot less, but then again I suppose he may not be able to keep the film as check baggage which would an issue.
The issue is that he won’t take the film out of his storage room except to watch it, and then it goes straight back into cold storage again.
so wait for winter? :p