I am Curious Super 16

The Early Years of Super 16 and how it all started
By Rune Ericson

article in Film and Digital Times  www.fdtimes.com

Lets go back 41 years to April 1966. I was 42 years old and had been working in the film business for 24 of them.

But first, as a curiosity – My work with film began in a lab where I processed 35mm black and white negatives on wooden bars which took 60 meter film each and then dried them on a big wooden drum. That went on for six months – before the old-fashioned lab was closed down. After that, I got a job as an assistant cameraman. I worked mostly on feature productions, but shot some documentary films and some commercials too. After the war ended, they were suddenly producing a lot more films and, back then, most were made in the summer. So there was always a shortage of film crews.
 

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