Back to the future?

FERRANIA IS BACK

 

 

 Italian film and camera brand Ferrania  is coming back. Once a major player in  motion picture films for the Italian film industry, it fell on hard times. In the late sixties it was bought by 3M. but soon after it then faded away.  Now is has come to life thanks to successful a Kickstarter fundraising project that raised the necessary cash. A company called FILM Ferrania will use the money  to re-commission, re-tool and re-redesign existing machinery  to modern standards from  the closed  Ferrania plant so that it can begin to manufacture  film once more. At the outset  the production will be for 35mm and 120 roll formats for stills, and Super 8 and 16mm movie film. Go figure. Film may not be dead after all. But one must ask: where are the Super 8 cameras today?