An educational film about proper film handling, completed with a few emulsion scratches running all along the entire length - a perfect addition IMHO.🙃
Whether educational, industrial or rented prints, I always treated them as if they were my property. Clean projector paths was always uppermost in my mind before thread-up. It takes only a minute or two to ensure your projector won't add damage to your print. Thanks for a great film/
I believe that I saw something very simaler to this from KODAK in my highs school photography/film class in the early 90s- such info still applied at the time. (This especially applied to development!)
They leave out all of the mishandling gems you guys have dealt with. This is like a map of all the reasons that digital was perfect to kill film once the silicon and encoding got there.
More jobs and products eradicated by technology. It never ceases to amaze me how many more jobs existed for the post WW2 generation that were either eradicated by advances in technology or exported outside the influence of American taxing entities, the control of unions and or government regulations.
We watch vintage westerns on Encore Westerns that for some reason seem to only exist in 16mm syndication prints. Most of the picture quality is fine, but the cue marks around commercials and at the end left from the syndication runs are terrible. A shame they didn't have another way to mark it.
Standard cue marks were a small white dot in the upper right corner of the frame. Two dots a half second apart (or was it 1 second, I forget) 10 seconds before changeover, then a single dot at changeover. The first dots cued the projectionist to start the next reel projector (the reel was cued at the start of the 10 second leader), and the second dot was where he hit the changeover switch, or did a manual changeover. The film continued on the first reel for a few more seconds in case he was late on the changeover, or had to do a manual shutter switch and then hit a switch to change over the audio track. I still automatically spot those dots on any film I see, but most people never noticed them. If you look you can see them about every 20 minutes in a movie, unless they have been erased in making a digital copy of the original film.
And some 60 years later, this film has held up well. I think the greatest irony is Kodak developed and held the patent for one of the 1st electronic digital still cameras to utilize an "off the shelf" commercially available CCD's and they decided not to invest in this new technology! Patent# US4131919A United States
They realized it would destroy their existing film business, and quite reasonably didn't want to do that to themselves. What they somehow didn't realize was that if they didn't do it, someone else would, and it would still destroy their film business. But now they wouldn't have a new income stream from digital.
An educational film about proper film handling, completed with a few emulsion scratches running all along the entire length - a perfect addition IMHO.🙃
You summed it up perfectly thanks!
Whether educational, industrial or rented prints, I always treated them as if they were my property. Clean projector paths was always uppermost in my mind before thread-up. It takes only a minute or two to ensure your projector won't add damage to your print. Thanks for a great film/
This is the most meta thing I've ever seen on this channel! 👍
I believe that I saw something very simaler to this from KODAK in my highs school photography/film class in the early 90s- such info still applied at the time. (This especially applied to development!)
Right. "Just follow a few simple rules" says the guy at the end of a 15-minute film.
Sounds like all the music (except one track) is from the same library music LP: a 1967 De Wolfe LP called "Young Beat".
Thanks Dad! It's groovy and got a beat I can dance to with my friends!
Must be one for video tape. Machine cleanliness avoidance of magnetic fields etc.
They leave out all of the mishandling gems you guys have dealt with. This is like a map of all the reasons that digital was perfect to kill film once the silicon and encoding got there.
More jobs and products eradicated by technology. It never ceases to amaze me how many more jobs existed for the post WW2 generation that were either eradicated by advances in technology or exported outside the influence of American taxing entities, the control of unions and or government regulations.
We watch vintage westerns on Encore Westerns that for some reason seem to only exist in 16mm syndication prints. Most of the picture quality is fine, but the cue marks around commercials and at the end left from the syndication runs are terrible. A shame they didn't have another way to mark it.
Standard cue marks were a small white dot in the upper right corner of the frame. Two dots a half second apart (or was it 1 second, I forget) 10 seconds before changeover, then a single dot at changeover. The first dots cued the projectionist to start the next reel projector (the reel was cued at the start of the 10 second leader), and the second dot was where he hit the changeover switch, or did a manual changeover. The film continued on the first reel for a few more seconds in case he was late on the changeover, or had to do a manual shutter switch and then hit a switch to change over the audio track.
I still automatically spot those dots on any film I see, but most people never noticed them. If you look you can see them about every 20 minutes in a movie, unless they have been erased in making a digital copy of the original film.
They should have just invented the CD it's much less hassle.
And some 60 years later, this film has held up well. I think the greatest irony is Kodak developed and held the patent for one of the 1st electronic digital still cameras to utilize an "off the shelf" commercially available CCD's and they decided not to invest in this new technology! Patent# US4131919A United States
They realized it would destroy their existing film business, and quite reasonably didn't want to do that to themselves. What they somehow didn't realize was that if they didn't do it, someone else would, and it would still destroy their film business. But now they wouldn't have a new income stream from digital.