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That is hardcore! That was why he was 'Godfather Willis.' That was from an era when the DP put some effort in the lighting and film tests. Now the kids can't be bothered with tests, even when it is instant digital. Before you use your lenses, you should test them wide open to f5.6. Know what it is capable of. Why use a lens at a certain aperture if it produces shitty res? Most lenses sweet spot is f4 or f5.6. <><><> ‘The Birth of the Beatniks’ 1945 Selection from ‘The Beatniks’ artist’s book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection

The kids nowadays do a shitty audio job with a lot of the films. I can't understand how so many eyeballs and so many ears are involved in a film and they still put out crap when it comes to audio. I mean, when I work on my projects, it is just me more or less. When you work on your projects how many eyes and ears are involved?? No excuse at all. Another trend is for the kids to make films so dark you can't see the scene. I just don't get it?? Rule #1...don't have background sound noise, sound effects, music and dialogue going on at the same time. And if you do have an audio mix, have someone listen to the film to check the dialogue. Same thing with music and dialogue. Music can overwhelm the dialogue. Have a mix of old and young test viewers look at the film while in post. See what they say about the dialogue. you are surely not a good judge if you produce shitty audio in your films. Neither is your audio man, girl or zir. You know, when I work on my little film projects, I will sometimes make 12 or 17 versions of it in post on throw away DVD's to see how they look on TV and the computer. You can't get a perfect color / contrast grade for both TV and computer many times, so I have to average it out. It is the same with audio. I routinely change the audio volume up and down to test things. I downvote many channels on YouTube for this very reason. You can't understand the dialogue, they put constant music long with the dialogue and it distracts from the presentation. Or their audio volume is poor. If they keep doing it after I call them out...I downvote them. These aren't art films on YT, they are education, news or commentary channels. But some of them put constant, menacing music to try to 'boost' the message. You can also hire me as a cheap consultant. I will tell you what is wrong with your film in 5 minuets. I was watching an older film, from the laserdisc era. It was some rock and roll doo wop 60's remake. They had a group of girls in a convertible driving along and talking. They had wind noise, car noise, road sounds, radio music all going on all at once along with actresses that could deliver good dialogue. I shut it down after a few minutes. I couldn't understand hardly a thing. That shows shitty filmmaking. You can have big names involved in shitty work. Hoyte van Hoytema shot an action film with a black lead in it. Can't remember the name of the film. But the black lead was a shitty actor and you couldn't understand him. The lead girl was the same thing, shitty dialogue delivery. I shut the film down after about 30%. Terrible. Lost some respect for Hoyt, putting out crap like that. Don't sign your name to shitty work people. If you have to do it for the $, use a pseudonym. Have a little pride in your work. <><><> Prostitute Amsterdam (Candid) Selection from De Wallen Amsterdam's Red Light District 2014 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. 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

The Victory Garden 1944 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Here is an interesting 16mm from 1944 on victory gardens. The gardeners were called land soldiers! In the 1970's PBS came out with a TV show of the same name. There were many hosts of the show over the years. My favorite host was Roger Swain. Roger Swain Victory Garden 1987 VHS D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Sadly, they never came out with DVD's of the old shows. I was lucky to find a very few on VHS. <><><><> 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

The Cooper's Craft Williamsburg 1967 VHS D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive No plastic or cardboard back in the day. Liquids went into a wooden barrel. Things not liquid went into a wooden crate or also a barrel with removable lid. Here is a story about the barrel maker aka cooper, from the VHS Archive. Selection from Houses with Bunkers project. Internet photo: Fair Use

https://archive.org/details/ike-tina-turner-revue-river-deep-mountain-high Tina Turner in her early days along with Ike and the Ikettes.

You can get 35mm teasers and trailers pretty cheap on ebay. Good luck!

Post some of the eBay photos...let's see um. I love the old tinted films. But I don't think films in the 20s - 40s were done on tinted stock for copy protection. That was done much earlier. People could get around it if they wanted to copy by then. Tinting was generally done for effect or maybe that was the stock they had on hand...but just guessing. Wide range of color tinted stock were in use back in the day. https://ia902608.us.archive.org/21/items/jones-tinted-films-sonochrome-1929/Jones_TintedFilmsSonochrome_1929.pdf Cine Art / Hollywood Featurette used their 'trademark' orange tinted stock for their films. Agfa and Dupont also made tinted 16mm stock. eBay photo eBay photo Some of this material here may have come from Barbara Flueckiger, can't remember. Check her out for info on tinted film stock. I had written to her years ago with some film questions...never got a reply. You may do better. Barbara Flueckiger Here is a scan from one of Cine Art's orange tinted film stocks. 'Hollywood Sand Witches' 1928 (NSFW) Vimeo banned me so have not put up anything else there. Sad, as I'm always getting new followers and never give them back anything. I guess the lechers like the old-time nudie girls. The weird thing is Vimeo didn't take down the old stuff, they just pull down anything new I put up. <><><><> 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

Behind the scenes of an international world politics meeting. Internet Photo

DDTJRAC Back in the day, way back, Freestyle specialized in repackaging expired motion picture film for still photography and bulk loading uses. A lot of their stuff was from old military surplus or Hollywood left over stock. Freestyle's repacked cine' film was always subpar when compared to fresh Kodak still stock. But when you are a broke kid, you buy some of the $1.69 100-foot rolls and load some .10 cent 35mm cassettes up in the closet to be able to shoot 'something.' Later on, when you would get more $, you can afford to buy 100-foot rolls of fresh name brand Kodak or Ilford stock for $7.50 at Pan Pacific Camera, which was the Sammy's Camera of its day. And when the day comes that you acquire a changing bag and don't need your mom's closet, that is a big deal. Just as it is when you move out of your mom's bathroom into a real darkroom. When you buy expired or even 'in date' stock off eBay you are taking the chance it has been stored OK and has not been though too many X-ray machines while traveling. If you can buy stock from the same source, same production number and have tested it, it may be OK. But generally speaking, I wouldn't do it. Not for the $ it cost and time wasted if it turns out bad. I'm only interested in expired or second hand film out of curiosity and for archival purposes. Labels from 16mm Stag Film Cans DDTJRAC

I could only watch it in short spurts as internet is terrible here. But looked very nice...post up more film scans! What is going on with the RobinoScan? I had never heard of it. Did you build it for yourself or to market the scanner?

DDTJRAC May Day 2023 almost snuck by me this year. Too busy with things. When I was a kid I always looked forward to May. In 1960's L.A., around May / early June, apricots would be the first fruit in the store. Then peaches a little later and plums. The fruit had some taste and fragrance back then. Now all the stone fruit tastes like rubber, has no fragrance and rots before it ripens. The peaches have the fuzz buffed off them and are coated with anti-fungals. They are picked green and only need to last as long as it takes to ship and sell them. The bananas we eat taste nothing like the bananas we had back then. That variety died out because of a disease. And our current variety seems to be destined for the same fate, from what I've read.

People wearing masks back in 1927! May have been a dusty ride. A lot of the films on eBay are form pickers that don't know a thing about it. No sample photos or anything. This guy gives a good rundown, but the film is unaffordable unless you are a stock footage company that sells it by the second or a collector with $$. You can get 8mm films pretty cheap on eBay. But they are generally too low Q for me. If it was pro shot 8mm, then maybe. But the amateur 8mm is usually pretty bad. Anyone that progressed in their home movie journey would usually move on to 16mm...unless they were a broke bohemian!

Pretty bulky. Don't know how it would work if you had to crawl on the ground.

Years ago, I had a scan done on 8mm. They used grain reduction on it. Don't know what they used. Kinda plasticky look. When you pay others for scans you are stuck with what you get unless you run copilot with the tech and pay more $$...as well as an airplane ticket to get there. This is from my 8mm film Gone! Up in Smoke. 1975 with Barbara LeMay. OP, you can't give em stills from 8mm. Unless he wants a postage stamp photo. That was how I got into archival cine' film work. I needed some stills to round out a photo project. I bought some 8mm films on eBay and made stills from them. Terrible quality even 5 x 7 size. So, I tried 16mm. Better, but still nothing to brag about. But...seeing some interesting films in 16mm got me interested in working with cine' film. My suggestion is find a student volunteer to shoot stills on set. They can get credit in their resume, and you can get some proper stills. Good luck! Eastman House First 16mm film I had scanned. Perry did it. This is a raw scan. 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

Bub...you need to test out all the options. Make a YT or Vimeo video on it. That way it helps you and others out. Or at least make a record of still photo setups to show you what you get. OK, you can't test out everything, but you still can test a lot. In the old days they would shoot a scene a few days ahead with stand-ins to get the lighting just right. They just didn't 'swag' things. Greta Garbo 'Camille' 1936 DDTJRAC

Just how things are. It is not by mistake. Just as some films have a blue cast all over it. It is by choice. Also, they can get away with things in the dark when you can't see what is going on very well. But...I may be wrong. I've seen a number of films where the dialogue was unintelligible. You would think that after the thousands of eyes involved in making a film would view it, someone would say something. But no... the audio is terrible...no one says a thing. It could be the same with post work. It is subpar and no one says a thing. If you want the facts, go interview the filmmakers to see why they make the movies so dark. <><><><> Selection from vintage skateboard sticker archive. 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'm wondering if Blu-ray will soon be the standard and DVDs will die off for new movie releases. Or will DVDs be with us for the foreseeable future? <><><><> Vacuum frame plate maker 1974 Selection from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Graphic Arts Archive 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 wish someone would do an in-depth shoot / report on the show in still or video. I'd love to go, but finances are always an issue. Back in the day when I had some $ and would visit Vegas, NAB wasn't of interest. Now that NAB is of interest, $ is the problem. Vegas was fun! Freemont Street, Las Vegas Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. I don't want to post photos here, but Google: You make friends fast in Vegas! Teoli

Been downsizing and cleaning up things. I finally found the lost SD card from a 2018 IR flash shoot at B&H in NYC. It got lost a short time after I shot it. As in...lost so fast I didn't have time to put it on the computer. It was Christmas time and I was out doing some street photography on a Sunday afternoon in Manhattan. It started to rain. I was in the area, so I thought I'd step into B&H to give them some infrared radiation. I spent about 20 minutes looking around. Took 109 IR flash photos then left. All candid stuff. I was in a rush to get back to Jersey City as I was leaving that night for Ohio. Being is a rush, the card got misplaced when I packed up. Glad I finally found it. My worst nightmare was finding the card after the data had degraded. You can't keep SD card data forever and not plug it is every few years to keep the data fresh. I was told they hold data for 10 years without a plug in. The longest I've gone is 5 -6 years without a plug in and data was still good on the SD card. Nothing spectacular from the shoot. But it was interesting to do and sure beats standing in the rain! Zir can also go in 'Burkas & Hijabs of New York' project. I like it when I get photos that are useful in other projects. More bang for the buck so to speak. IR flash does not go too far. It is not the best thing for long distance shots. You benefit very little from available light unless you are getting tons of it. But if you were doing staged work you could set up a bunch of IR flashes for distance. They got a room when leaving B&H for people to unbox and fondle their new gear. If it was a gun store people would want to unbox and start loading up! Still doing post work going through the photos. Lots of post work. These are all shot from the hip with zone focus and zone exposure. Consequently...lots and lots of PP! <><><><> 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

Yes, agree. But that is a project for you or someone else to do. I work in hundreds of areas of collection and am only 1 person, so I am limited with the amount of time I can spend on any single project. Although I was born and raised on film, I'm all digital now. So, the amount of time I invested in the project was what I wanted to spend on it. To follow a giant group of auctions individually is a lot of work. Since many people on the forum are international, you would have to survey eBay worldwide as well to do it justice. That is even more work. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Outdoor Sports Catalog Collection - Patagonia Archive 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

Survey of expired film prices eBay 2022. Expired 16mm Sealed Film eBay 2022 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> 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 meant it looked attached with a wire to the main camera. Was it common that the still photographer would shoot right along the main camera on most scenes like this?

Fantastic job! Some of the filter tests are hard to see the difference. If you get filters like that, shoot some stills to do split screen comparison with and without the filters in addition to the video.

Hundreds of photos and screenshots covering a wide range of cine' related areas.... Large collection of small gauge cine' related material listed on eBay D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive When you are out and about and see something interesting...archive it! You are already there, so why not? That is how this collection came about. I was already there, so why not? <><><><> 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

After the actor walked by the main camera, the mystery camera took position. Camera looks to be attached to the main camera. Screen photo from Superbad 2007 movie.