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Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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  1. What a time to have lived! Not many fat people back then. Lots of activity. And no fast-food joints all around. Stagecoach travel took 3 or 4 weeks to cross parts of the USA. With the first trains connecting America, it took 3-1/2 days. The old wagon trains took 4 or 5 months to cross only a portion of America. All these times vary. But they are general times listed on the internet. I bet when the wagon trains came upon a river, they enjoyed a bath! Or not, who knows? No early warning for weather or Indians attacking. And not just Indians, non-Indian outlaw gangs would attack them. Photo: LOC <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
  2. Thanks. I thought you were going to say it cost $75 or something for you being made fun of. Anyway, we are all on different levels. Some rich, some not so rich and we are all trying to get the work done best we can with the budgets we got. The machine looks pretty good. At first, I thought it was just a tub that the film ran through some liquid until I saw this photo of it. Film-O-Clean MK3 System for 8mm/S8/16mm Film Internet Photo: Fair Use From what I gather, there is no liquid involved, it used sticky rollers of some sort. Or am I wrong? Doesn't your Lasergraphics do about the same with their sticky urethane rollers Perry was talking about? My problem is my films are filthy! Dust is one thing, but they are filthy, filthy and filthy many a time. This isn't from cleaning a roll of 400 feet. This is from cleaning maybe 20 - 30 feet. Photo D.D.Teoli Jr. You guys, girls and zirs like cleaning films or you just have to clean films and don't like it...use a slow drying film cleaner if you are serious. It is more of a pain to deal with than fast drying Edwal, but it cleans very well. It has time to loosen the dirt, whereas Edwal's fast drying cleaner does not get nearly all the dirt. But Edwal's cleaner is good if you are in a rush and have no time. It gives a doable, half-ass clean job. Photo: B&H / Fair Use Of course, you can test this all out yourself. Just like I always tell to test things. Try Edwal and try other cleaners. But the slow drying cleaners stink like hell. If you use them, have a fan pointed in your face and good ventilation. It would be interesting for someone to test the commercial film cleaning machines and see how much dirt is left behind by following up with a slow drying film cleaner over the previously cleaned area. Test out some film both ways, hand and machine as a test sample.
  3. Lots of stories, I guess. In this day and age...dunno, never know about prosecution, Tyler. Just depends on the DA and all. Really sad. People that buy Retroscans are not usually rich and can't afford to lose $. And I just lump all his machines as Retroscans. I never kept up with his later machines. They looked to have all the same issues as the Retroscan. So, when I think of MS, I think of Retroscan. My goal was to eventually get a FilmFabriek or cheap Lasergraphics. The Retroscan was an introduction to cine' film scanning for me, that was it. I'd see used Retroscans on eBay every once in a while. They seemed to be listed by another person and usually shipped from MS as 'refurbished.' I never could figure that out. Roger advertised he would take in used Restroscans to upgrade to a newer machine. But it never made sense why someone in CA selling a used machine on eBay would go through MS to ship it. I don't know if it was jsut a sales story or something.
  4. Thanks Victoria. I wonder how many different frequencies they used for this work.
  5. Can you run a Lasergraphics scanner with your own computer or does it only work with the proprietary computer? <><><><> Selection from DDTJRAC Fashion Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
  6. It sold very fast. I was thinking the selling price is pretty high, but have no idea. What is this film used for?
  7. Oh, you can scan warped and shrunk film with it Tyler. The question is...will you get a great scan? No, you won't. But again, if you are broke / low budget...something is (usually) better than nothing. This is a scan done with the Restroscan from the film on this core. NSFW The 3 Graces - Vintage Stag Film D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Now, even with perfect film, you can only do so much with the Retroscan. But for the $, I always thought it was a decent value if you could not afford better. This is about as good as it gets with flat film on the Retroscan. Retroscan Registration Example Scan 1939 NY World's Fair D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I had tried one of their LightPin gates and it was terrible for warped film. I could not get it to work. So, I stuck with the standard gates. The LightPin gate was supposed to have better registration. Doesn't your Filmfabriek scanner have a gate similar to the Retroscan where the film just rides over the metal?
  8. No, but have read the Reddit and some other forum posts about it. Some of the people have over $10k in losses. MovieStuff (aka: Roger Evans) finally stops scamming people and declared bankruptcy - 8mm Forum (film-tech.com) With all the people burned there looks like there is a decent market for affordable scanners. Do you think Lasergraphics will ever make their version of the Retroscan for $12-$15K Perry?
  9. Thanks Perry! Sorry, no more likes or upvotes today. I went over my limit.
  10. Thanks, Todd. Do you keep the warped gate on all the time or switch gates for bad film? How much work is it to change gates? Some of the films are warped so bad, they unwind themselves on the rewind bench. You take off the tape and the pressure from all the warping will unwind a whole reel on the floor...if you let it. I've done it before with films I don't want to bother with and I will trash. Films that I may have a copy of two of and didn't care. Too bad I didn't shoot a video of it. Pretty interesting seeing the film unwind itself from a non-spinning reel. This is just a moderately warped film.
  11. Thanks, Perry! That is something. Yes, lots of work in making it. Does ScanStation / Director use something similar?
  12. Wow! Had no idea. Roger seemed on the up and up when I dealt with him. But that was way back. Maybe 2017, can't remember.
  13. Was Moviestuff the type of company that had lots of parts in stock to build machines or did they just get parts as needed to build orders?
  14. Any other scanner companies showing signs of $$ troubles?
  15. Tyler...it is a matter of beggars can't be choosers. When I bought one, I sold an old Harley Sportster for a couple thousand $, borrowed a couple of thousand $ from a family member and charged the rest on my credit card. It was a good option to get your feet wet with learning about cine' film scanning or for someone with a pile of family movies and just wants some scans and won't go for a Wolverine scanner.
  16. I'm generally not into 35mm...too bulky and too $$. But recently someone had a small lot of 35mm home movies shot in Ireland from 1915 - late 1920's for sale. I could not afford most of them, but I did pick up one short from the collection; about a tourist group to the Blarney stone in 1928. The other films were similar in size and some of them were about early steam trains in Ireland. Tour groups still go to the Blarney stone to kiss the stone for the 'gift of gab.' The print looks to be a safety film dupe of the original nitrate...but just guessing. You can use the scan of the film for your website / experimentation / education / advertising / etc. Just no stock footage sales. I'll be glad to pay shipping both ways and would like a 4K scan. ProRes is OK. Here are some details on it... more people.... I kissed the old Blarney stone a few times. I used to go to Europe a lot back in the 1990's. I would go off-season in the winter. I could RT air for $229 - $299 for most European cities. Hotels were cheap in the off season too. This was before the internet was a big deal and all the kids were not overloading planes trying to buy experiences. Travel was cheap back then and you were not packed like sushi! GD...those were the days! I was headed to Hong Kong from Taiwan and 85% of the plane was empty. You could raise the arms of the seats and lie down on whole empty rows. Monsoon Thailand 1982 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. Don't travel much now. Health is so-so and too $. So, I travel with the film archive nowadays. I got plenty of travel back in the day, so not hurting. If interested write me direct at: w1000w@aol.com Here is seller's description... VERY RARE HISTORIC FOOTAGE ACTUAL 35MM FILM FOOTAGE, DEPICTING THE RAILROAD DEPOT / STATION IN BLARNEY, IRELAND, AND THE KISSING OF THE BLARNEY STONE, THERE ARE SOME GREAT SCENES, FILM IS MARKED IRELAND 1928 KISSING THE BLARNEY THE FOOTAGE IS SILENT. THE IMAGES ARE QUITE SHARP AND VERY WELL TAKEN, AS GOOD AN AMATEUR AS BEST AVAILABLE FOR THOSE DAYS, IT COMES IN A COUPLE OF STRIPS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS, IT HAS A FEW SPLICES, ALL IN GOOD OVERALL CONDITION! SOME OF THE FILM HAS A YELLOWISH / ORANGE HUE BUT THE IMAGES ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OVERALL. THE FILM DOES HOLD THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING SOME NICE STILL PHOTOS FROM SOME OF THE IMAGES. THERE ARE MANY WONDERFUL SCENES, MANY OF THEM SHARP AND WELL TAKEN, SOME CLOSE-UP SHOTS AS WELL! MOST OF THE FILM IS SOLID AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OVERALL, BUT DUE TO AGE CAREFUL HANDLING IS STILL A MUST FOR THE ENTIRE FILM IN ORDER TO VIEW IT AND PRESERVE THE IMAGES! BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE ROLL, I ESTIMATE THE TOTAL RUNNING TIME OF THE CLIPS TO BE ABOUT 3-4 MINUTES OR SO RUNNING AT 18 FPS, EVEN THOUGH DID NOT COUNT THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF FRAMES.
  17. Thanks Dan, good to know about that company. I never said eBay's listings are in working order or anything. Just said they were used. Looks like MMT makes a film scanner too. They have lots of crazy gear. I never knew they had video tape cleaners. Look at this machine for film printing.
  18. That's impressive. What did he spend to build the scanner? Got any photos of it? I wasn't looking for wet gate scans, just wondering if the warped gates LG sells are worth the money. I think they are like $4,000 each for the Archivist. Don't know how much they are for their top end scanners. Even $4,000 seems like a lot for a little piece of metal.
  19. I see they have separate gates for sound and silent. They are pretty pricey. Did you find them worthwhile for the price?
  20. What was wrong with your earlier cleaning machines, Robert? San Lab Systems Prista 16mm 35mm Film Tape Reel Cleaning Machine | eBay Sidenote... eBay used to offer half-ass decent JPEGs as auction photos. Now they are pretty much all WEBP lo-res crap. I have an eBay archive with +/-40,000 images in it. Glad I grabbed what I did when they offered something better.
  21. Wow, you've gone through a lot of gear over time, Robert. That is what is nice about being in biz. If you make mistakes and have a decent profit margin, mistakes can be absorbed under the guise of research and development. Do the machine cleaners, clean as well or better than hand cleaning, Robert?
  22. Is the Kodak P-200 machine still being produced? Do these P-200 rollers hold up? Looks like they would deteriorate. The cleaner? B&H has it for $800 a can...special order. The machine itself looks pretty nice.
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