Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory

[mooseontheloose]

I thought this short documentary on the making of film at Harman Ilford to be quite interesting.

 

[pentaxuser]

Thanks for that. It was well made - like the films themselves . However I thought it a pity that given the company is British, still produces its wares in Britain and has British staff whom we saw and heard, a British narrator( there are many very good ones) could not have been used. I would not have expected an "Old Etonian " to have provided the commentary on say Kodak

pentaxuser

 

[cb1]

It was great!!! made me go buy some PanF+ LOL

 

[Cholentpot]

Real darkroom footage.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I thought this short documentary on the making of film at Harman Ilford to be quite interesting.

I received my batch of FP4+in 120 today;very timely and interesting. thanks for posting

 

[spijker]

Very Interesting, thanks!

 

[Truzi]

Real darkroom footage.

I liked that too, lol.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

That was great! Thank you!

 

[ced]

Now you know why sometimes you get weird marks you don't know what could be causing them - clunk-clunk-bash-bump...

 

[Harman Tech Service]

I was going to put the link up this morning, but you beat me to it !
Thanks for sharing.
Neil

 

[mpirie]

I was going to put the link up this morning, but you beat me to it !
Thanks for sharing.
Neil

Thanks for allowing an insight to the manufacturing process Neil and thank all of the staff for making great products that are widely appreciated.

Long may you continue.

Mike

 

[mooseontheloose]

I was going to put the link up this morning, but you beat me to it !
Thanks for sharing.
Neil

Ah, well, being on Japanese time puts me ahead of most.

 

[wahiba]

Thanks for that. No problem with the US commentary as it was obviously a US crew making it. Seem to be doing well. Wonder what was under development.

 

[mshchem]

Great film. Shows what a treasure this plant and the employees are. What a great story, love the people.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

...I thought it a pity that given the company is British, still produces its wares in Britain and has British staff whom we saw and heard, a British narrator( there are many very good ones) could not have been used...

The video production company wasn't British either. Camera operators and narrator -- one person overlapped those categories -- as well as the camera shop used for some scenes are from/in Texas.

 

[mpirie]

Wonder what was under development.

Under development is what happens when you don't give the film enough time in the developer or the developer is too dilute.

Sorry, couldn't resist......I'll get my coat.

Mike

 

[pentaxuser]

The video production company wasn't British either. Camera operators and narrator -- one person overlapped those categories -- as well as the camera shop used for some scenes are from/in Texas.

It may have been that a small U.S. company agreed to do the video and this may or may not have made it less expensive for Harman but either way it has the added advantage of being geared for the N American market which is by far Harman's biggest customer from what I recall Simon Galley saying in the past. It was very professionally done and the narrator's whole delivery was excellent. Whoever they were, they were far from rank amateurs

pentaxuser

 

[twelvetone12]

This video was absolutely stunning, thanks for posting!
...did we see the famous ex-agfa finishing line too?

 

[pbromaghin]

Great show.