Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Thanks Frank. Good to see you are still around!

The Lasergraphics people have come a long way from their beginnings. Very impressive design. Since you are in business, do scan companies generally run at high speeds that produce decent results and charge more for slow scans? Does the slow speed benefit sound only or does it affect the image quality, Perry?

Don't know. If it was a bad print, wouldn't it be on all the prints, Perry? If I can find that faded print, it may be worth buying it just to see a 2nd sample of the sound.

That is terrible. Is FF ever going to fix it, Tyler? I understand you like AEO-Lite. As a broke archivist I like it too. But when you got a sound scanner, it should perform as advertised. OK, it does not have to be top shelf, but nothing obvious for the average Joe, Jane or zir to complain about.

So, if you have an important film, do you scan it slower with the Lasergraphics to get the best scan you can, Perry?

I was going to buy another copy of the film, but it was faded and passed on it. It would be interesting to see how sound varies with different prints.

What is the problem with the film that would cause this distortion?

Update: 3.30.24 Ridata 25gb Blu-ray is still good after 9 months of sun. Test will conclude in 3 months. Pretty impressive performance from Ridata. It is the only Blu-ray disc to last this long other than M-Disc, Japan Verbatim and Taiwan Verbatim BD-R's.

https://www.filmictech.com/ Reminds me of a Kinetta. (Which I could find very little about.) Have you heard anything about the Filmic? Looks like it is for pristine film and not the usual stuff I get. <><><><> Selection (Candid) from De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District artist's book 2014 by D.D.Teoli Jr.

Life in a Medieval Town : Coronet Instructional Films : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive It said it was scanned with a Lasergraphics Scan Station. Sound is distorted at the beginning. I didn't listen to whole film, maybe more distortion, don't know. But it is very noticeable with the opening music. Is this what the sound is like with a FilmFabriek scanner that Tyler talked about? Put up some distorted sound FilmFabriek users so we can hear the audio problems. <><><><> Ad 1944 Selection from Cigarette Advertising Archive - DDTJRAC 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

Ordered 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' (1965) and 'The Hill' (1965) from the library. 'The Hill' sounds interesting... Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun, in this military prison drama. I generally can get about 98% of what I want from the intrastate library loan system. Some odd films are hit and miss. Was looking for 'The Unbelievable Truth' but it was a no go.

Those are nice looks! If buying from BH...buy a bunch of options, test them out and return what does not work for you. I've only used graduated ND filters. Can a colorist do what you want? Gimmicky? You gotta try things. Can't say without seeing the results. If it is a paying gig, all you have to do is make the boss happy. Good luck!

Thanks Robin!

Thin Transfer : DDTJRAC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Transferred from DVD and looks thin. What type of software can fix this and stretch image out some? Original was not widescreen or anything. From the 1970's TV video. Thanks

Watched a couple of oldies, 'Twister' (1996) and 'The Perfect Storm.' (2000) Blu-ray versions both had great commentaries, especially about the special effects. Highly recommended. You can get them from your library if you don't have them in your collection. Sidenote...They are coming out with a redo of 'Twister' called 'Twisters' in 2024.

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

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.

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.

Thanks Victoria. I wonder how many different frequencies they used for this work.

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It sold very fast. I was thinking the selling price is pretty high, but have no idea. What is this film used for?

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?

Roger's FB post via Kinograph Forums.

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?

Thanks. Do you use any machines for film cleaning?