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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 :smile:
 
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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.

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Somehow I think Bill may not be a Seahawks fan!
 
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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.]

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Monroe is 12 miles up the road in NC. But I don't get up to the big city:whistling: 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.
 

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

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

the slow-mo replays are the best IMO.

-Dan
 

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^Me too.^
 

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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!
 

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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
 

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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"
 

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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!
 

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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.
 

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