{"id":70377,"date":"2013-03-29T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70377"},"modified":"2013-03-29T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:54:10","slug":"film-laboratory-that-processed-lotr-trilogy-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/29\/70377-film-laboratory-that-processed-lotr-trilogy-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Film laboratory that processed LOTR trilogy to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">TV3 reports that Park Road Post&#8217;s film laboratory<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/29\/70377-film-laboratory-that-processed-lotr-trilogy-to-close\/logo_header\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70383\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70383 no-lazyload\" alt=\"logo_header\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/logo_header.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a> is closing, after more than 70 years of\u00a0 processing New Zealand made films and playing a part in many of the country&#8217;s most successful movies. The lab, which processes stock 35mm film, was purchased by Sir Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh in 1999 from the government-owned national film unit, and became part of Park Road&#8217;s Post Production facilities. <em>The Lord of\u00a0The Rings<\/em> trilogy was processed for a total of $7 million, at the expensive rate of a dollar per foot of 35mm film stock &#8211; a price\u00a0which few filmmakers nowadays can afford.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re shooting digitally&#8230;once you&#8217;ve got your camera, once you&#8217;ve got your memory card or memory stick then really there&#8217;s no cost, or very little, and that&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s driving people away from film and more toward digital,&#8221; says laboratory employee Brian Scadden.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to say, &#8216;Kodak and Fuji are the world&#8217;s largest producers of film stock, but because filmmakers are using digital more and more, Fuji&#8217;s already stopped and Kodak&#8217;s future is in doubt.&#8217; \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/End-of-the-line-for-Park-Road-Post\/tabid\/418\/articleID\/292305\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV3 reports that Park Road Post&#8217;s film laboratory is closing, after more than 70 years of\u00a0 processing New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,29,31,30,20,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lotr-movies","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-new_zealand","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/logo_header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ij7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70377"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70392,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70377\/revisions\/70392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}