An interesting film on how things were done back in the day.

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

 

 

[Joerg Polzfusz]

Cool! Thanks!

(As a funny side note: Andec is still complaining about too much tape used to close the cans. So the film is still relevant. 😉)

Edited November 27 by Joerg Polzfusz

[Mark Dunn]

3 hours ago, Joerg Polzfusz said:

Cool! Thanks!

(As a funny side note: Andec is still complaining about too much tape used to close the cans. So the film is still relevant. 😉)

Just wrap the tape you took off the edge of the can tightly across top and bottom. Simples. The stock's in a bag, it won't get fogged.

Edited November 27 by Mark Dunn

[Simon Wyss]

Best practice is to discard the manufacturer’s tape. It may be stuck onto a film magazine but should be trashed before the magazine is opened. Exposed stock should be wrapped in a black bag, canned and the canister sealed around the rim with fresh white textile tape on which one writes EXPOSED, the date, and the DoP’s or the assistant’s name. The original can label should not be written upon.

Lab people need to know what’s in a can. Therefore, don’t use the original tape. It’s worse to expose exposed film a second time than to have unexposed stock processed. So away with the printed-on tape!

It’s been acknowledged (more or less) that the film manufacturers employ coloured textile adhesive tape. Eastman-Kodak yellow, Agfa-Gevaert orange and grey, others green, red, brown, light blue or often cream.

When taking film cans to the lab you stack the uppermost, then tape the ensemble over. If you invert the top can, its label remains protected.

[Mark Dunn]

At film school we were taught to wrap the tape around the can of exposed film transversely around the can, not around the edge, to distinguish it from unexposed.

Identification as required. Now there's a partial peel-off can label.

We also didn't wrap mag edges, on the supposition that it wasn't necessary on properly-maintained mags. 

Nowadays, "properly maintained" may be an  aspiration rather than a given.

[Simon Wyss]

1 hour ago, Mark Dunn said:

At film school we were taught to wrap the tape around the can of exposed film transversely around the can, not around the edge, to distinguish it from unexposed.

I know.

 

1 hour ago, Mark Dunn said:

We also didn't wrap mag edges, on the supposition that it wasn't necessary on properly-maintained mags.

Right you are.

 

1 hour ago, Mark Dunn said:

Nowadays, "properly maintained" may be an  aspiration rather than a given.

Yeah.

[Doyle Smith]

Even in the day we usually taped mag edges (especially aged Arri mags) with 1" camera tape color coded to the stock used or black 3M photo tape. We always discarded manufacturer's tape. The side of the mag always was marked with the stock, date, and a blank roll #. Exposed film cans were always edge taped even though black bagged internally. The roll ID from the mag was stuck on top of the can and the original top copy of the camera report folded and taped to the top. The only time exposed film cans were taped transversally was when a stack of cans were headed to the lab. The manufacturer's paper label was disregarded totally by the lab as there was no guarantee that a roll was downloaded to its original can.