I was sad to see it go too. I bid, but the guy came in and outbid me at the same time I was bidding. We did finish 2nd, according to eBay’s bid listing. Having an actual print of “Titanic” has long been a goal of mine, but it went higher than I thought. From what I understand the 16mm print is scope, the same ratio, and I was told the quality was beautiful. It is the same 10 reel set as the 35mm version.

I know 35mm would have been better, but it presents an entirely new set of issues. To turn the 35mm print into a workable project we would’ve needed a setup similar to the one team negative1 used with a projector, camera, etc to capture each frame individually because no production house would have touched it.

16mm is different. I know several places that will readily accept and make HD transfers of the 16mm reels and provide nice high resolution ProRes (or similar) files that can be manipulated with PFClean, etc if we can find somebody with access to that.