Old Motion Picture Film Breakage

I have an idea that I doubt will help you. If you are really willing to put lots of time into this you could manually scan the film in with a scanner. You should then be able to assemble the frames back into a movie with the computer. I imagine this would be way too much work to be worth it unfortunately.

Have you thought about contacting a place that will transfer the film for you, I am sure they deal with old film all the time.

The family did this once before on VHS tape and they did a terrible job and it was very expensive. To scan the film (one frame at a time) would take years for one person. Each frame is smaller than your fingernail!

another problem is that the material that the film is made out of (i forget, acetel, or something, has a tendency to stick to itself, so it is difficult to unwind the roll ......

good luck

It may not be as inflexible as you might imagine. The really problem stuff is acetate, I do not believe that it was used that much since 1945 or maybe even earlier....perhaps someone on CR4 could date its usage for us better.....

I would take a chance on one film and use a good quality projector that you have already tested that it works as it should....be ready to switch off as quickly as possible of course.

Commercial companies that do such recovery work are very, very expensive.....

if you truely value these, take them to a pro........once they are damaged that are gone forever...........