NFL and Kodak

StoneNYC · Feb 2, 2014

Wayne said:
Not only that, rabid sports fans pay for "coaches film" so they can rewatch every play and analyze teams and other such things in lieu of having a life.

That's insane! Get out and play yourself! Instead they get fat on chips and dip and yell at a box with light coming out of it, we are much cooler, we get out there and put light INTO a box

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 2, 2014

Most elite-level athletic performances have a beauty when viewed in ultra-slow motion that often escapes the eye at normal speeds. American football is one. Basketball more so. Even baseball, that slowest and most asymmetric of all games.

Have you ever watched an ultra-slow motion major league pitcher's curve ball from the batter's point-of-view? It's an astounding visual to actually see the "red dot" that elite hitters can pick out with ease, judge its location on the ball during only a tiny fraction of a second, then adjust their bat motion as they uncoil, and majestically pull that pitch 435-feet over the left field fence.

Even if one doesn't like American football, for similar reasons watching NFL Films can be a visual joy to behold.

Ken

adelorenzo · Feb 2, 2014

If you guys had watched some of the NFL Films stuff you wouldn't be wondering what the big deal is. Even if you're not a football fan you'd appreciate what they're doing, it's unique in pro sports and it is really well done.

wildbill · Feb 2, 2014

Today's Superbowl=WASTE OF FILM. Save on processing costs and just chuck it in the trash!

MattKing · Feb 2, 2014

Somehow I think Bill may not be a Seahawks fan!

Sirius Glass · Feb 2, 2014

wildbill said:
Today's Superbowl=WASTE OF FILM. Save on processing costs and just chuck it in the trash!

Denver is using the Redskins' playbook.

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 2, 2014

Ha! 43-8 final! Go Hawks!

Monroe is about an hour northeast of Seattle. Way out in the rural nowhere. As I type this someone somewhere outside in the cold and dark distance is putting up a full fireworks show. Last Friday I arrived on a flight into SeaTac airport. People on their way out to the game were chanting in unison throughout the terminal. The fans here are going nuts. 1979 was a long time ago...

[Edit: My better half advises that at the grocery store down in town earlier this afternoon someone got on the PA system and started it off by screaming "Sea!" The entire store, customers and employees, screamed back "Hawks!" Over and over. Everybody in the Greater Puget Sound region is dressed up as an osprey. 12th Man crazies.]

Ken

Tom1956 · Feb 2, 2014

Monroe is 12 miles up the road in NC. But I don't get up to the big city much. I like it out here in the middle of nowhere, and I pulled up that game on the internet when I got back from wood chopping. Some knucklehead was singing some junk I ignored, and the the second half started. And upon seeing Peyton Manning's team was losing so bad, I shut it off. I wonder how the advertisers made out. Probably squandered a fortune.

Photo Engineer · Feb 2, 2014

Every inch of film sold or used helps us!

Truzi · Feb 2, 2014

I really don't like sports, but this has given me a new appreciation for football.

lxdude · Feb 3, 2014

Photo Engineer said:
Every inch of film sold or used helps us!

Bottom line truth!

Jeff Kubach · Feb 3, 2014

lxdude said:
Bottom line truth!

I agree!

Jeff

wildbill · Feb 3, 2014

MattKing said:
Somehow I think Bill may not be a Seahawks fan!

I wasn't rooting for either really but that was a blowout!

brian steinberger · Feb 3, 2014

adelorenzo said:
If you guys had watched some of the NFL Films stuff you wouldn't be wondering what the big deal is. Even if you're not a football fan you'd appreciate what they're doing, it's unique in pro sports and it is really well done.

+1

DanielStone · Feb 3, 2014

I don't watch football, but NFL films are so well done I find I actually enjoy them, most of the time

the slow-mo replays are the best IMO.

-Dan

lxdude · Feb 3, 2014

^Me too.^

B&Wpositive · Feb 12, 2014

Photo Engineer said:
Today, in an interview on the local NBC news, the NFL stated their commitment to film. The person interviewed referred to the ability to view film images directly and to preserve them longer than digital. He discussed their contract with EK for film supplies.

I am sorry that I missed a bit of it, but it does show that film is not dead.

PE

Wow! I had no idea the NFL shot film. That's really something!

moose10101 · Feb 14, 2014

B&Wpositive said:
Wow! I had no idea the NFL shot film. That's really something!

Some info from the Wiki page:

NFL Films operates its own in-house 16mm and 35mm Color Negative Processing Lab. ... The lab is open to the public for development needs. Clients include feature length and short films shot on location in Philadelphia as well as students at local universities.

Salon.com television critic Matt Zoller Seitz has called NFL Films "the greatest in-house P.R. machine in pro sports history . . . an outfit that could make even a tedious stalemate seem as momentous as the battle for the Alamo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Films

StoneNYC · Feb 14, 2014

moose10101 said:
Some info from the Wiki page:

NFL Films operates its own in-house 16mm and 35mm Color Negative Processing Lab. ... The lab is open to the public for development needs. Clients include feature length and short films shot on location in Philadelphia as well as students at local universities.

Salon.com television critic Matt Zoller Seitz has called NFL Films "the greatest in-house P.R. machine in pro sports history . . . an outfit that could make even a tedious stalemate seem as momentous as the battle for the Alamo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Films

That's cool! I would love to visit just cause and develop a roll as a "college student"

jrhilton · Mar 7, 2014

lxdude said:
NFL Films says they shoot 1000 miles of 16mm film per season.

It is a lot of 16mm in today's world but not a lot in film terms. That is around 1200 release prints for a 16mm distribution (if there were any still) give or take. A 120 minute 35mm release print is around 2 miles in length and thousands used to be churned out around the world for each film with a global distribution.

1000 miles is better than nothing though, as I still like using S16 so am glad it is still around!

AgX · Mar 7, 2014

You compare volumes of release films with that of camera films.

Which can be done estimating the importance for the industry as such. But for a single enterprise using 16mm film today that figure is impressive.

AgX · Aug 17, 2014

The end has come:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

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