He's emailed back and said:

"The trouble with this bit of kit (well don't get me started) is that it is really not up to a professional job and restricted to Super 8.

If the material is at all historic the regional film organisations e.g.

Tel:                          01752 202650

Web:                       www.swfta.org.uk

Facebook:               South West Film & Television Archive

Twitter:                   SWFTA1

SWftaTUBE:            SWftaTUBE

 
...will copy over using a professional process (liquid gate) that takes account of old splices, cleans the dust off etc."

He also says that there is the germ of an idea for WMUK here though - perhaps having a contract with a decent provider who would digitise them for us. It's something we will have to look at over the next few months to see if it can fit in our future plans!

Richard Symonds
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On 8 September 2015 at 13:26, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I think we might do well to ask our volunteer who specialises in old films, I have BCCed him into this message so he can join in if he wants to!

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On 8 September 2015 at 10:08, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
On 08/09/15 09:02, Robin Owain wrote:
> The National Library of Wales offers this as a free service, scanned
> directly rather than via projector. They also give you a free copy on
> disc. They will also allow CC0 /BYSA. But you need to live in Wales; if
> not try the BL.

That's why I suggested http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/ might be
starting point to find an equivalent in England. Given the projects
preserving material of this sort I'm sure there must be something?

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