Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Or are they usually very good filmmakers as well as editors?

All Photos: Internet Archive Years ago, I had written to the Internet Archive about getting help with film scanning. Either helping me buy a scanner or loan me a scanner or ask one of their rich Silicon Valley patrons to buy a scanner to loan me...nothing. They always pester me for $$. This is Brewster Khale - Founder of the Internet Archive... After the Internet Archive banned me, I wrote him an 8-page letter stating my case to be reinstated...NO reply. They deleted somewhere about 80K to 120K uploads of mine. Eventually I got reinstated, but only by an odd fluke. Otherwise, I'd still be banned. Some girls really twist in contortions...huh. When you are older and sitting in front of the computer all day...don't do it. You will pay the price. Ergonomics is very important when you are old and not made of rubber any longer. This is their book scanner they invented. Pretty impressive! The glass goes up and down to flatten the book. Their photography is just so-so at the Internet Archive. Some of it is better than others. Here is their headquarters. They did better with this photo...at least with perspective. Shadow detail is gone. Here is their oversize flatbed scanner. When I use mine (a slightly smaller one) I have to clean off the table to use it. I'm short on space. I can scan up to 11 x 17 inches roughly. And have a copy stand with vacuum easel for up to 24 x 28 inches. Same thing, I have to break it all down to do something else. It would be nice to have dedicated workstations that don't need to be stowed after use. This is their servers. I don't know what that is all about. Just know it is their brain. Digitizing stuff! Yes, you too, can be an archivist for the Internet Archive! – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection (wordpress.com) <><><><> 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

I got a copy of the DVD A Queen is Crowned. (Photo above - DDTJRAC) The DVD is from a dye transfer Technicolor print. Pretty spectacular event. With all the gold they laid upon her, she was so heavy they needed 2 assistants to steady her...or that was what I gathered from watching the film. I will break the DVD down and make a little sampler of it for the Internet Archive. It is always tough trying to figure out how much of someone else's material to use. They got the whole thing on YT, so that says something. But what others do, may not apply to me, so I am still cautious with sampling too much copyrighted material. (1625) A Queen is Crowned - YouTube With archival work, almost everything you deal with is / was someone else's copyrighted material, so it is always a battle of the greater good vs. the greater right.

You never know how these things are planned. Nice update with the photo.

I've had trouble with Gmail and AOL trying to register on forums. Some forums say it upfront about these two.

Amazon.com: ProTapes Artist Tape Flatback Printable Paper Board or Console Tape, 60 yds Length x 1" Width, White (Pack of 1) PRO Tapes make the best artist tape I've used, and I've tried quite a few brands. It works great for film handling marking camera gear, boxes or plastic boxes and jars. You can tape film down or mark reels and cans. Peels off clean. I've also used it as a gaffer's tape, albeit a less durable, but still good enough option, if you need it in a pinch. Blue painter's tape is crap compared to this. Drafting tape is half-ass. Really drafting tape is many times just a thinner variety of masking tape, sometimes with less stick...sometimes not. It is a crapshoot if it will wreck the material. I trashed all my drafting tape. Artist tape comes in all sizes from 1/4 inch to 2 inches...although not all colors are in all sizes. Even so, there is a large number of colors available to allow for color coding. I use this tape for permanent marking as well. It sticks great, but it is always nice to have a clean removal option instead of digging out the acetone or 'Goof Off' and marring plastic surfaces trying to get the sticky off. But as a warning...I've only used this tape for a few years. I have not had it on something for 10 years and tried to remove it. So, this is my experience with it with that caveat. These are the kind of dispenses you use for the tape. You can buy dispensers to hold single or multi-reels of tape for up to 3 rolls. When you put the tape on, aways leave a little tab sticking up on one end that you bend around to stick on the tape. Makes removal very easy. <><><><> 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

I finished the full post on this subject at my blog. I go on to talk about the sign-in book that many galleries and some museums have at the shows. I also posted a sample sticker and stamps I had used for the sign-in books. One sticker being 'The Birth of Araki.' It may be a little too much in the nsfw area for this forum. So, if interested in stamps and stickers for your brand, name or project, check it out. An easy area of archival preservation to get into is documenting gallery and museum shows – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (wordpress.com)

You know, art shows are only up for a few weeks or months. Most gallery shows are about 6 weeks then they go poof! Like they never existed. If you go to galleries or museums, shoot some photos and upload to the Internet Archive to preserve something of it. You don't have to make a big deal of it. Ask is photos are allowed, they almost always are, and shoot the show. If you get the display card in the photo you don't have to name the photos. It does not take much time to shoot a show. You are already there, so might as well contribute a bit to the historical record. Start at the entrance and get some shots. Throckmorton Gallery NYC 2018 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. You don't have to get artsy with your photos, but you can if you like. Whatever...it is all part of the historical record. Whitney Museum NYC: Warhol From A To B & Back Again (Candid) Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. 2018 If you want to be more anal in nature and a 'just the facts mam' type of documentarian, then do that. Stifel Fine Art Center: Student Art Show 2022 Photo D.D.Teoli Jr. While it does not take much time to shoot a show...it can take lots of time to post process if it was shot poorly. When you shoot, try to do a half-ass job with exposure and not having things too catawampus. (You like that word? I learned it from an old hillbilly named Jim. He taught me about process cameras, blueprint machines and vacuum frames back in the old days, when I was a kid starting out in the graphic arts field in the early 70's.) Entrance to installation at the Museum of Sex for: The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki Infrared Flash Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. 2018 While flash photography is usually not allowed. I sneak in some invisible infrared flash photos once in a while. The IR flash really illuminated the ropes...huh! Reflections are a constant problem along with contrasty lighting. Just do the best you can. Since no one is paying you for your work, whatever you contribute to the historical record comes under the auspices of 'something is better than nothing.' Just don't put up anything embarrassing that may hurt your name, as far as producing low-quality work and have it follow you around on the internet if someone Googles your name. For me, I put up anything I like. I have no limits. I'm underground and not looking for a job...so I work without any restraints whatsoever as far as content. But I try to only show half-ass, decent work. Beining a social documentary still photographer, I do have standards in that area. Museum Of Sex NYC: Sculpture of 'Norah' by Shona Mc Andrew 2016 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. 2018 Beside circular fisheye, you can also shoot panoramic photos of the installation or joiner collages. If they have video / film running...shoot a video of their video to archive it! Joiner photography examples: Internet - Fair Use ...and don't forget the outside of the building if it is notable! Museum of Sex NYC 2018 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. One last thing... Don't put up any low-res garbage. Put up decent res photos. At least 1 or 2 MB....minimum! You never know when your photo/s will be the last extant record of the artwork / show / whatever and you don't want your legacy to be shit.

That's an impressive machine. They offer training videos and they give you all the prices upfront! Does it come with a dedicated computer like the Lasergraphics or do you supply your own? How is the image qualty for 16mm compared to the Lasergraphics? You mention 8mm. Is that your main use for it? How is it with warped film? Maybe they will make a tabletop archivist model.

Textured aluminum. More rigid than smooth and you get traction if you stand on it.

I was selling an old Pentax 300mm lens on eBay a while back. Didn't have any res charts handy. I do have a couple of res charts, but they are buried in storage. So, I used a paper bill instead. Worked out find for eBay. Looks good at normal magnification, but when you pixel-peep it is just so-so. Always go the distance and magnify your tests to get the score. If you really want to test things, shoot a flat bill, engraving only and check the corners.

Just to update this trade offer... I'm nearing the end of the scanning and it looks like there will be near 5,000 scans in the collection. As I said previously, you don't have to trade anywhere near that amount in digital material to acquire the collection. So run whatever digital material you would like to trade by me if you have an interest in acquiring the Sotheby's Photograph collection.

Still no luck finding the photo of the Queen and gun. Spent hours digging though stuff and no go. But I did find an interesting photo from the Coronation back in 1953. It is one of the first photos of the event flown back to the USA to be distributed as a wire photo. This copy was dated June 5 for publication. DDTJRAC Press photos are an interesting area of collection. Many of them are low-grade wire photos or processed poorly. (See link) But sometimes you get a decent press photo. The newspapers only needed something to publish. They didn't care about archival longevity. Before and after press photo restoration – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II (home.blog) I hope I didn't lose the Queen when I downsized a storage unit a while back. Every time I move, stuff seems to get lost. And having no proper space to work...the Archive eats the Archive sometimes.

...Maybe the young kids don't. But I used to love her! DDTJRAC - Actor & Comedian Archive Aunt Esther (LaWanda Page) used to be a hoochie dancer when she was younger. Bronze Goddess of Fire Who was the "Bronze Goddess of Fire?" | Revue (getrevue.co)

Internet Archive Search: The Quantel Guide to Digital Intermediate Film scanning and production in 2003 How have things changed over the last 2 decades, in what is presented in the publication, other than going from 2K to 4K as a standard. (Or is 4K even the standard nowadays?)

Where are samples of these scans...to see?

I've told you and Perry time and again. All scanning options should be tested with comparison samples posted online.

Dunno. It is top secret, I guess. My Archive is not stingy like other Archives. I share high-res material...if I have it. Others are not like that. I modeled my Archive after the 'old' Getty Museum open content digital collection. The 'new' Getty open content offerings are just a fraction of the res they used to offer. The L.O.C. is another mess to deal with, but I won't go into that here. I was excited to find some photos of Riefenstahl at the National Archives. But they were the worst of the bunch. It was like 9kb...that is KB! Maybe you could make a postage stamp from it. I will be putting up a film by Riefenstahl called Day of Freedom Our Armed Forces P1 & P2. It was lost until the 1970's when a partial copy surfaced. I think about a third of the film is still lost. When I get a copy of Olympia I will cut some clips from it. I'm finishing up a project scanning thousands of pages of old Sotheby's photograph auction catalogs for the Archive. One sale had a photo from Olympia by Riefenstahl of a diver coming off a high dive with the sky as background. I think the estimate was $100,000 to $150,000. I will have to find it. Too bad I didn't mark the spot. Too bad Riefenstahl didn't collect the proceeds. I'm sure she could have used it, being blackballed. From looking at the documentary about her, she was not living high on the hog. She said she was blackballed due to her Hitler movie making connection; although she said she was not in the Nazi party and just a filmmaker. She was scuba diving at 90 and taking underwater photos!

I have a large Sotheby's photograph auction catalog collection I'm digitizing and interesting in trading for other digital collections of merit. Still scanning, but as rough estimate, the collection will be somewhere around 3500 pages and is +/- 24gb. But these are all rough estimates. There are roughly 26 catalogs, but a good portion of them are 2 session catalogs and are split in two. Just guessing, but maybe 35 catalogs when sessions are separated. Scans are 600 dpi. Will trade digital collection for another interesting digital collection. Min res for trade is 300 dpi, preferable 600 dpi or more. Trade would be done with Blu-ray disc or thumb drive. Catalogs cover late 1980's to early 2000s. Some have realized price sheets. Catalogs are from London and NYC. If you have film / video collections to trade, they must be of decent res. I have a very wide range of interests for trades. Probably one of the largest scopes of interest in the world...and I'm not bragging. I'm just not interested in text and prefer historical material...I'm visually oriented. Your trade doesn't have to match scan for scan. The better it is, the smaller the collection can be. But any way you slice it, scanning +/- 3500 scans is a lot of work. I was scanning this morning. Found an unknown Diane Arbus photo of a topless gal standing outside with apron. Title was 'Waitress in a Nudist' camp...or some such thing. Estimate was $60K - $80K. You find all kinda interesting things in these catalogs. Plus, it had some interesting historical backstory on Arbus. Also, some carbro prints by Outerbridge. Just countless photo history in the catalogs. Every big-name photographer you can imagine is in the catalogs going back to the 1800's to the present. Sample image... BTW...that image name number is 20813. That is the 20,813 scan I did. And the scanner has already rolled over 100,000 scans. I guess 'scanner' should have been my middle name. Point is...I have tons of high-quality digital collections of all sorts, if this one is not up anyone's alley for trading. Here is an old, out of date listing of some of the digital collections available for trade. https://archive.org/details/collection-scope-of-the-daniel-d.-teoli-jr.-archival-collection If interesting in trading write direct: w1000w@aol.com

You mean the stills? They are still from a movie called: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl The movie clips have nothing to do with the screenshot stills. Two separate things. Just too bad you can't get any decent photos of her working. Just low-res garbage. Still, something is better than nothing.

Some clips of Riefenstahl's early work... Clips Of Nazi Germany Leni Riefenstahl : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Here are a few screenshots I made of Riefenstahl working. Gives you an idea of the cameras they used , dolly work, direction, etc.

That Riefenstahl was a helluva rock climber. Here she is in The Great Leap 1927. The Great Leap Leni Riefenstahl 1927 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Artists tape. Sticks well, comes off clean. Use it extensively.

OP...no. I like things pretty sharp. My 2k scanner is OK, but I'd like better.

Good for you! When you get settled with it, make a film on it working.