Justin Pentecost

I've spent a alot of time embaressing myself trying to recreate these sort of effects .. Joe Dunton let us have a 1909 Moy which we loaded with modern stock and shot some shots for a music video ... it did not seem to matter how "Badly" be handcranked .. it just looked superb, perfectly exposed and perfectly stable. I go with Stephen It's processing or filmstock or it may well be taken from a print and there was some issue with the printer illumnination (I'm no expert on this but I guess that is possible). My experience is that cameras reagrdless of age actually produce a really good image and the artifacts we associate with "Old film" are exactly that .. artifacts from old film. Did Arc lights flicker if the arc was not set correctly? I understood they needed constant attention to make them work correctly, did they flicker on the "Way out" ? By the 30's Syncronous motors were well established which locked the camera speed to the mains frequency so variations were unlikely ..especially with a camera like an NC or BNC ..