Loving these film related company tours! The Ilford one was amazing and this one is great so far as well (haven't finished the video yet)

this film developing/production series has been incredible! you're the only person that's showing this type of in-depth behind-the-scenes content with this level of quality. we really appreciate the work you put into this and for sharing these processes with us

They must have hard drives the size of the moon to store all that data. Really interesting, especially the Super 8. I've never seen Super 8 look that good 🙂

Man, you are outdoing yourself with this kind of content! Great work!

This was a trip. I was watching this while scanning 35mm film I shot this week (still frames, not movie). My scanner is a PrimeFilm XA which scans a whole uncut roll of 35mm, 38 frames in a batch in my case. Watching my little desk scanner struggle with 10000DPI while seeing that 12K scanner was unreal.

Wow thank you ribsy and cinelabs for this tour. It was so incredibly interesting. Just to hear the costs (£600/min)that can be incurred in filming is amazing. At least every film is professionally licked at least once. 😆

I really appreciate these tours! Keep up the good work! 🙏🏾

This is amazing work. Thanks for getting these and putting them together. Appreciate it

One of the most entertaining and interesting videos I've seen. Thank you for that. Great job!

Another excellent video, Ribsy! Well done on going the extra mile to bring us this interesting content!

This is golden. Thank you for the tour. Enjoy every foot of it …

This is the sharpest super 8 footage I’ve ever seen

INCREDIBLE Quality!! Best Super8 scans i've seen !!

Enjoyed that immensely. Thanks for taking us along. The prices are eye-watering for the casual photographer! Learned a lot.

This was really interesting - especially the explanation of scanning and it's relationship over time to various quality/definition available. Thank you for making such great content!

An incredible video. Brilliant stuff. Thank you.

Amazing how clean and streamlined the process they have is. Nice work!

Thank you!!!! This is so sick to see : ) I love these "behind the curtain" looks - really appreciate the effort

I love this stuff. It’s so amazing to see the inner workings of a pro lab like this and the same goes with the production of Ilford products. You’ve been smashing it out the park with these. Also, can’t believe how great that super 8 quality is from that lab. I’m tempted to shoot some this summer!

Absolutely fantastic...bravo!

this was so good to see!!! very informative

Thanks for sharing this man. Grettings from Brazil!

Thanks for coming to see us Ribsy, love the video and great to see the Super8 - hope you’re going to enter the next Straight8 competition! Cheers, Adrian

Been a while since I been down to Cinelab but have had all sorts of footage developed by them Super 8, 16mm, Super 16mm and 2-Perf 35 and it always looks phenominal and they are great guys and love showing you around. Got to see someone doing some archive stuff and digitising as well as the lab was really cool. Used to be where they make the for GT40s as well which is kinda cool on its own.

just dazzling! thanxx

Thank you Ribsy for this wonderful video. Greetings from Poland

This is a fascinating half hour of goodness, so informative and interesting, need raw 12K now!

Love this documentary, educational series on film! Thanks so much. Very educational. When I saw how IMAX is 3x width of a 65 shot horizontally with 15 perforations, that really made it make sense, actually seeing the film. Much better than a diagram.

This video is fantastic. Reminds me of the best documentaries we often had on TV in the 90s (and that's a compliment, btw. lol) But this is better, because it's shot in HD.

This has to be one of the best suggestions from the algorithm. Who knew developing film could be so interesting!

Thank you folk at Cinelab, that was fascinating.

Great content as always! Me being a total noob about films it's really nice to have a glance of what's happening behind the scenes. Gracias mano.

This was absolutely fascinating.. Thank you

Oh, wow. Amazing, mate. Thanks for sharing. Really great.

Absolutely amazing

Having shot, developed, and printed B&W 35mm stills film, it’s amazing to see how gargantuan the scale of motion picture film processing is! Thank you for this peek into the process.

Back at it with another tour!!

Nice work, I enjoyed this one a lot.

Wow! I love your videos printing photos but this…love it too! 👏👏👏

Oh my GOSH Ribsy!! These tour/ documentary vids of the industry are seriously a public service! So cool!

Amazing to see, and nicely done getting them to show you around and document everything they're doing! I really feel like it's the movie industry that's a huge part of why film isn't dead so it's really awesome to see film in movies is still very much alive and that there's still cutting edge R&D being done even today to build new machines and processes like the 12k scanner or that laser film printer. Awesome stuff!

Absolutely fascinating

Well done Ribs! Fantastic video!

Amazing stuff! Thanks for content!

Fascinating! Thanks!👍🤙👐

Thanks so much for doing this dive into processing and scanning. I had no idea Super 8 was that crisp. Though using a Bolex camera is an experience I've dreamed about.

This was extremely interesting, thanks for sharing.

This was awesome! Nice work Ribsy and nice shirt at the end ;)

Amazing video! It's very interesting these "background" videos because never though the process is made this way. Thank you!

On my opinion, a fascinating lessons I learned looking your video is that technician telling us that super 8, 40 years old cameras, are filming with improved stocks and films being scanned at 4K resolution, then i only can think we are living in the golden age of super 8. Lets forget the word "resurgence of super 8". the 80's were the auge or chilhood of super 8 because cameras became popular, but now is the adulthood, lest talk about the prime of super 8, or ripeness of super 8. Thabks for that putting together that video mate!

thank you so much ribsy! very interesting

Great video!

great content. very informative. keep up the good work.

Awesome video, so interesting!

That's really cool! How nice to know that somebody is still manufacturing and processing Eastmancolor ECN2 from Super 8 to 65mm and making rock-steady, hi resolution scans using a classic pin-registered slap gate (as seen on the 1912 Bell and Howell 2709 camera)! On one hand it's like a living museum - I used to process colour motion picture film in similar processing lines in Sydney in the late 70s before moving to laboratory control, flashing and reading the test wedges and correcting processor speeds and printer trims. The processing end of this all felt so familiar! We didn't need scanners - we did all our visual effects with optical printers printing on EK colour intermediate films, B+W hi contrast and rarely B+W separation master positives. The world has moved on and I've been compositing digitally for nearly 30 years now. While digital is definitely the way to go (I do things every day quickly that I would have been unable to do optically) for me digital also came at a price. I used to get to the lab early before our optical rushes came up so I could watch the latest footage from currently shooting Australian feature films. Projected on an ANSI standard screen, these rushes - only 1 generation from the original negative - represented the best image Eastmancolor could offer, and it was utterly superb. The practice down there was to always print one-light rushes, so if the director of photography underexposed or somebody forgot the Wratten 85 filter outdoors, we got to see it even before the editor. I miss seeing my work on the big screen. Months later the lab would screen the answer print complete with colour correction, opticals and fully mixed stereo sound for the staff and it was always a blast. The dupes the audience got to see in the cinemas were slightly degraded bulk release printing. Motion picture printing was an analog process and this is something that is not an issue for digital intermediates. We even restored a couple of major historical Australian feature films on Eastmancolor: 'Jedda' (1954, Gevacolor) and 'For The Term of His Natural Life' (1927, B+W) which required simulating in Eastmancolor the tinting and toning with which this film was originally presented. I would love to see the laboratory negative rolls from something like the 1968 Tony Richardson epic "The Charge of the Light Brigade" scanned to 4k+ in a film lab like this then digitally restored to its original magnificence. So great to hear that film still lives! Thanks for a great video!

Loved this Ribsy 👏🏻👍🏻

Great inside!

Damn this video is amazing! I study motion film and this is just perfect. Thanks so much!

Super feature!

As an ex photo lab worker and amateur 8mm movie maker, I found this awesome.... Great job of showing the background people involved in the movie making process..

That was amazing! Thnx

Love this content. So interesting to see BTS how this technology works on commercial scale 🙏👍

That was just awesome!!!

Really interesting video!

Really cool! I grew up shooting on film but abandoned it like most of humanity. But it never really left me. I can tell an analog vs a digital image, and I am happy that companies like Cinelab are around to continue the great tradition of film. This is a fine documentary, well-made and informative.

This was great!

This is dope! Thx you

Amazing video! I've always wanted to see how this scale of work gets done. I think it's a real shame that the other end of movies, projection, transitioned to digital when it did. While digital does make things a lot easier (and requires so much less effort to produce an acceptable result), the industry standard that we are only now starting to finally upgrade from is 2k xenon. As mentioned in the video, 35mm can easily produce results in 4k, and for 65mm 12k is the standard. Aside from straight resolution, color reproduction on film does feel very noticeably different (I know, cliche as hell, but it's true!), and particularly on those older xenon based digital projectors, contrast and dynamic range. Even now as we finally start to approach quality parity with 35mm with 4k laser projectors, larger film formats are still king. 70mm is a true treat to run and to watch.

wow that super 8 footage looks insane!

Amazing!!

Great deep dive! I worked in a closed loop scanning environment for stills with the E6 process back in the 90's and this brought a lot of it back! I'd love to work for Cinelab :)

Cool! :) Good work!

Damn this is awesome! I discovered your channel recently and just subscribed. Learned so much thank you very much! Now I understand somehow better why Imax tickets are kind of expensive ^^' I didn't know 8mm was this tiny I was shocked! So cool!

great video

So interesting!

Genial vídeo! Una maravilla tanto este como el de la fábrica de Ilford. Enhorabuena!

Jackpot Ribsy! Outstanding.

really enjoyed this... and i subscribed :)

Awesome video nice👌good job

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excellent

All I could think when watching this was how much of a bad day youd have at work if you accidentally exposed someones feature film to light. Great video, really enjoying the behind the scenes stuff you've been doing lately.

That looks like my dream job!

this was awesome! what a treat! im old and im a cinematographer and photographer. yes, I remember the days when NOBODY would run to the camera to see the results. And I actually loaded bolex 16mm wind ups out in the field, in the black bag by hand ha ha. gawd I loved the smell in the developing room. it wasn't the scent of the chemicals, it was knowing magic was happening. Its like when I was a kid and you'd see a special effects film, when I saw those ugly blue screen matte lines, or that projected footage background I got chills, I was watching magic happen. although I wholly embraced the digital age. For what its worth weve come a long way and the offsets of working in digital is soooo worth it. Of course film will always be magic but its such an art form now. I mean it always was though.. we just didnt know we were artists back then. we were just dreamers.

28:00 I sow Davinci Resolve runing at background. Thanks for sharing this type of content and waiting for more !!!

Excellent a video about 35mm to 12K

Great video, great tour, great GI Jane joke.

old school seems just so straight forward..

What a proccess

Great to see behind the curtain on this stuff. Awesome job once again Ribsy :)

Film is on of the most beautiful inventions ever. Looks far more beatiful than digital. Scanning Film is totally okey, it preserves the look

wow! this is the most amazing, the most exciting, the most entertaining, the most educational video the ever hit any social media platform! I started my career as a photo developer in Junior high school, and to see this for the first time in my life, and to understand and learn how motion picture is developed, is an absolute privilege. The fact that you were able to videotape a tour of a facility like this is absolutely amazing. You can only develop a higher level of appreciation regardless of whether or not you are involved in this industry. One can only hypothesize the future of this process giving the state of of tomorrow's technology. I just glanced at your page and noticed you have videos spanning back two years, I am definitely subscribing to your channel, and I am absolutely going to watch every video you made. This channel is education at its best. Thank you!

Thanks. A fascinating insight. Any more like this and the Ilford one in the pipeline?

When you use a scaffolding to reach the rest of a machine, you know it's serious! Thanks to you both - Eric & CineLab - for this amazing tour! Also, what feature film were they processing?

Similar process is used in high-end music recording. The analog tape, once used throughout production, is now a temporary step.

I have a color negative slide, size 10 * 15 cm. my parents did a photo shoot in a photo salon in 1992, the camera was old (made of wood). The photographer shot them on a color film of such a large size. Now, in 2018, I digitized this slide with a scanner, I saw a very unusual effect of this slide. In the frame, the father is out of focus (he was standing behind) and the mother is in focus, but after I turned the slide over and scanned it again, and got the opposite result, already the mother was out of focus and the father in focus. I came to the conclusion that large slides retain a lot of information about the depth of field that can be selected. I did a Photoshop gluing of the frame scanned from both sides and got both parents in focus!)))

Oddly, this makes me appreciate the Nikon slide scanner (with its digital negative file format NEF) landed to me...

Wow.

United States and United Kingdom. Unbeatable!... Great .. Thank you sir!

I'm intrigued by the tricolored scanning process. Really thinking about getting a 16 mil cartridge camera (they run at like 100$ with a fast prime lens) and will have to self load and process if I do because 100£ a roll is insane just for a process/scann as a consumer. Got the bug when buying film from FPP as they really market their movie film well.