Farmers of the Sea Motion Picture Film Production, 1983-1984
The Farmers of the Sea Motion Picture Film Production consist of pre-print and print film elements of the Farmers of the Sea documentary film produced in 1984 by the Oregon Sea Grant Program at Oregon State University.
The film examines the most recent developments in aquaculture practices at the time, in Japan, China, the United States, Scotland, and Panamá. A digital copy of the film can be viewed here.
The pre-print and print film elements of Farmers of the Sea that now comprise this collection were originally part of the Oregon Sea Grant Communications Moving Images Collection (FV 185).
There are 319 16mm film and audiotape elements related to Farmers of the Sea in the Oregon Sea Grant Communications Moving Images collection (VHS and Umatic videotapes not counted). From those, 311 are 16mm audio-visual elements, and the remaining 8 are ¼ inch audiotape recordings which were not inspected as part of this project. The elements were dispersed in 11 boxes and 7 canisters, and accessioned in two parts, 2000:100 and 2003:083.
Accession 2000:100 contained the smaller total number of film rolls, 37, but the greater variety of film production elements: A&B rolls (cut negatives or edited original negatives), workprints (low quality silent prints used to produce the editing template of the film), duplicate negatives (or “internegatives”), master positives (or “interpositives”), a fragment of reversal film, title trims, composite prints (prints with image and sound combined), and optical and magnetic soundtracks.
Accession 2003:083, on the other hand, contained the bigger number of film rolls, 274, but were primarily camera original negatives trims and outtakes, and three workprints. As a result of the detailed review and recommendations, materials that were part of the 2003 accession were not retained as part of this collection.
Container List
- Series 1: Pre-Print Elements, 1983-1984 Add to Shelf
- Series 1 consists of elements created in the course of the filming and production of Farmers of the Sea. Materials with vinegar syndrome are stored separately in boxes 1 and 3.
- Box-Item 1.1: A&B Rolls reel 1 roll A (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.2: A&B Rolls reel 2 roll A (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.3: A&B Rolls reel 1 roll B (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.4: A&B Rolls reel 2 roll B (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.5: A&B Interpositive roll A (short) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.6: A&B Interpositive roll B (short) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.1: Color Reversal Internegative reel 1 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.2: Color Reversal Internegative reel 2 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.3: Internegative reel 1 (short) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.4: Magnetic Soundtrack Full Mix (short) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.5: Optical Soundtrack Negative reel 2 roll A (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.6: Optical Soundtrack Negative reel 2 roll A (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.7: Optical Soundtrack Negative roll B (short) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.8: Opticals (Titles) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.1: Optical Soundtrack Negative reel 1 roll A (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.2: Optical Soundtrack Negative reel 1 roll A (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.3: Optical Soundtrack Negative reel 1 roll B (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.4: Optical Soundtrack Negative reel 2 roll B (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.5: Magnetic Soundtrack Master reel 1 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.6: Magnetic Soundtrack Master reel 2 (long) Add to Shelf
- Series 2: Print Elements, 1984 Add to Shelf
- Series 2 consists of the two final production of Farmers of the Sea. Materials with vinegar syndrome are stored separately in box 5.
- Box-Item 4.1: Composite Print reel 1 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 4.2: Composite Print reel 2 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 4.3: Composite Print reel 1 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 4.4: Composite Print reel 2 (long) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 5.1: Composite Print (short) Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 5.2: Composite Print (short) Add to Shelf