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Churchman Television is a leading telecine company in Eastern Pennsylvania, serving broadcast clients from New York, Washington, DC, Altlanta, and Miami. The firm is known for high-quality transfers and value to it's many clients.

In addition, the technical staff is well-known world-wide for it's expertise in servicing the Bosch/BTS/Philips line of telecines.

Charlie Churchman, the owner, is an industry veteran, with over 30 experience in broadcast television and telecine engineering and operation.

PLEASE NOTE: Our telecine service and parts are available in the USA only. We do not service machines outside the USA.

Now online- two perfect RCA TR-600 2-inch Quad machines. These beautifully restored low-hour machines are ready now for your two-inch archival tape collections..

Two Inch is also known as Quad or Quadraplex. Quad was the original professional videotape format for broadcast. These huge tapes hold viable video content on them which can be transferred to modern formats. Your old two inch content is still valuable. There are not many facilities that can still handle this format, and we are on the short list. Call for technical considerations.

We have working parts, modules, and cards for sale. We can also do exchanges on cards, motors and modules. We can also repair your cards or modules. We now rebuild reel motors on an exchange basis for FDL60s, available now.

If you have a FDL60 for sale, please contact us for an offer.

We are also looking for a full aperture gates for the FDL.

 

In addition to our Vialta Hi Definition Telecine, we have added an additional BTS Bosch Quadra to our lab.

We now have two Quadras available for transfers at all times. Each is equipped with our proprietary Wet-Gate, and features the excellent BTS 6-vector color corrector.

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June 17, 2002
Back from a week in New York rummaging through the archives to pull films for a whopping big transfer to videotape (some of these films will one day appear on the moviearchive site) and to select material for future production use, for which you are requested to please stay tuned. It's an exhilarating, though rather dusty, experience to dig into the corners -- found stuff I'd not known we had and even a few titles lost since the late 1980s, like the legendary lost film introducing high-school age applicants to Michigan State University, Postmark East Lansing. Brought all this material down to Charlie Churchman, who does our film-to-tape transfers in a remodeled barn full of high-tech transfer equipment located just outside Philadelphia. Grateful thanks to my generous hosts who restructured their living situations to put me up while I was in NY: Carrie McLaren, Greg Allen and Johanna Fateman.

Bill wrote: SLOW DOWN! I can't keep up with all the fabulous obscure movies you've uploaded here! Seriously, keep up the great work, all of these obscure oddities are FABULOUS! When I first saw the feature films section, I thought it was going to be nothing but time-worn copyright free movies that are availible from every fly by night video company imaginable. But seeing stuff like the amazing Captain Calamity makes me realize you are truly doing something SPECIAL here. Is your mandate to put lesser-known copyright free movies here? Just wondering.

Skip Elsheimer replies: Actually the films being uploaded at this point are public domain features from the collection of Charlie Churchman. I've picked a couple of features based on their subject matter or possible popularity. We hope to have over 500 features online within the next couple of months. Enjoy!

Bill: First, a big thank you for the work you are doing here, and to whom ever made this collection available. Can you tell us a little more about the "Charlie Churchman Collection", and what you are doing to get these wonderful old films into digital format? Is the collection in film or tape? If tape, are you doing the transfers? Which mpeg tools are you using?

Skip: Charlie Churchman runs film transfer house near Philadelphia. Over the years, he's been transferring 16mm and 35mm public domain features to one inch video and Beta SP. I digitize the video to MPEG-2 with a high-quality MPEG-2 video card (Digital Rapids DRC-500). I edit the files with Womble Multimedia's MPEG-VCR software. In the future, I'll be doing some of the film to MPEG-2 transfers myself. I have a large collection of educational films that I'd like to get online at some point.

By Scott Bomboy, Managing Editor, NBC10.com
POSTED: 3:04 pm EST November 15, 2004
UPDATED: 3:25 pm EDT June 10, 2005

The 1961 documentary film you're watching on NBC10.com, 'Dead End 1975?" is truly a "lost film" that was recently found by several strokes of luck and restored to its original condition.

As part our of project to put archival WCAU footage on the Internet, I found several unmarked film canisters in the second floor of WCAU's film vault, an older room above the station's old newsroom that is kept under lock and key.

Read more: What Is The 'Lost Facenda Film'?

I just wanted to say a a few words of thanks. Over the past two years, since we bought our first Bosch telecine, you have supported our operation with fast and knowledgeable service.

You have kept our machine online with rapid turnaround of replacement boards, and your telephone consultations have helped our engineer (me) keep the machine on-line and reliable.

We couldn't be in the transfer business without your help. For all of this, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

-Grace McKay
www.electricpictures.la

Liz Coffey asked: Can anyone recommend a video transfer house for an archival 16mm film to video job? I'm looking for someone with a gentle touch and a reasonable pricetag, NY to MD.
Liz Coffey, Rhode Island Historical Society Library, www.rihs.org

Rick Prelinger responds: You might talk with Charlie Churchman at Telecine Services. Very reasonable. His services are scalable, so I'd be very specific about your needs. We've done over 800 hours of work with him and had very good experiences.
Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives http://www.prelinger.com
Internet Moving Images Archive: http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php

We have a completely refurbished late model FDL-60 for sale. There are a number of options available as well, including the FDGR grain reducer, and a custom-built liquid scratch concealment system. This machine is especially suited for film archives and restoration companies. The FDL is very gentle on older film, and can produce stunning pictures. Contact Mike Mehalko at 908-879-9590 to learn more about this great machine.

And, by the way, we have several others machines available as well, including a Quadra, and a Shadow. Call Mike!