Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Just an update... I finished up most of my archival tests for the season today. One of the things I tested was this artist tape. While the tape works great indoors, it does not work good in the sun long term. 2-1/2 months of sun made the tape brittle, and it could not be removed without scrapping it off.

Never thought anything about that. We take it for granted with travel nowadays. Sadly, I still have not found the color queen photo. But I did find a bunch of old BW press photos of the queen and various royals. I hope to scan them if and when I get some time...before the clutter eats them again! I am having lots of problems with a custom computer I had made. The computer works great, but after Windows updated it the external DVD drives are not recognized now. I tried all the recommended online fixes more or less. Still no go. Now I have to remove all the software from the new computer and dig out my old computer to reinstall them so I can burn discs. Optical discs are a huge part of my work. Even if I didn't burn any discs for the optical disc library; I'm always cutting up DVD's to extract some clips for archival discussions. God, I hate Microsoft.

Got photos of them? Got photos of the projection booth? Projector ephemera?

That is something! What service. On-site scanning. How much extra $$ is that? They should charge them a fortune unless there is competition that will do it. I'd tell them to bring the film to me and not take the scanner to them.

Thanks for the rundown Dan. What is the difference in the soundtrack readers between the Arri and LG? For good HDR you need a normal exposure and an over and under exposure. These can range from.5 stop to 1.5 stop generally speaking. In the early days of HDR they had something called pseudo HDR, it was done with software only. You imported the image and it spit out the result. If you could not get multiple exposures in-camera, then you did it in post with something called single image HDR. It was not as good as in-camera HDR, but it was better than the pseudo HDR that the software did. Here is an example of highest quality single image HDR combined with contrast grading. It was done in post only, not in- camera, not in-scanning, just in Lightroom for exposures and contrast grading and HDR software to combine the 3 files done in Lightroom. You can't get that level of recovery with cine' film scanning as you can't do the contrast grading unless you are working with the TIFF files. Even then it is hard to match that level of post work frame to frame. This example had 2.5 hours of Lightroom in it. The Sunlit Slipper – Los Angeles 1973 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr.

That is why I am asking the forum Robert.

OK, thanks Perry. I can take the Arriscan off my list of scanners to buy if the $1.2 billion lotto comes in tonight. 99.999% of my film Archive is positive film. Does the Arriscan do better than the Scan Station when it comes to negs Perry? (Maybe that question has already been answered, as I'm just getting time to revisit this thread. If so, then you don't have to repeat the discussion.)

Photos: eBay - Fair Use Selection from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. eBay Archive

I'll go check my spam folder. When it is empty, I still find stuff in it...pop-up ads from AOL! Not just 1 ad, but 4 or more ads. All types of ads, political, cameras, computers, business promotions.

Halloween Hallucinations 1931 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Here is an interesting 16mm home movie from a Halloween costume party made on the evening of October 31, 1931, called Halloween Hallucinations. It was made 91 years ago today. In 1931 the Great Depression was underway, the Roaring Twenties was over and flappers will soon become a thing of the past. Selection from Flappers artist book by D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. The guy who shot this film, Reg Bergen, was pretty creative. Too bad he didn't spend a little more creativity time on basics like focus, as it is off for a good part of the film. Well, he may have had a fixed focus camera or shot wide open because of low light or maybe he wanted the film to look more dreamlike and soft...dunno. Everyone you see in the film is just a shadow in time and dead now...so, no one to ask. The film was shrunken and warped. Apparently, the mothball treatment and humidor film can couldn't keep the VS away. Humidor Film Can - D.D.Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Reel and Can Archive Or maybe the humidor did work some and it would have been much worse without the fumigation? We just don't know how things would have turned out one way or another. I left all the glue splices in, as was suggested to me in a thread here discussing doctoring archival material. Homemade Humidor Film Can - D.D.Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Reel and Can Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Although humidor cans were meant for adding humidity from water; I was told people would add camphor oil and other things to the humidor to try and preserve the film - hence the stink! Bergen was pretty good with exposure, at least a lot better than he was with focus. Most of the film could be scanned as a 'best light' scan with only a couple of sections needing a 'timed scan' rerun. At the end is a cute End card animation made with a string. I'm thinking he may have pirated it from a commercial film. This film is an example of a museum quality home movie that would possibly be in an Institution's permanent film collection. This film was kinda pricey as films go, selling at auction for about $230. I normally don't buy such $$ films due to being on a low budget. I'm more into $5 - $15 films and try to keep a film's acquisition cost at under $35. But I had got good news about an upcoming 8.7% cost of living raise in Social Security payouts due to the big rise in inflation. And in anticipation for the small windfall, I spent the raise before I even got it for this special film! Can you imagine the excitement that a picker must have experienced finding this film at a yard sale for .50 or $1. I mean, forget the profit they made...I'm talking about the excitement of finding such a gem of a time capsule and seeing it for the first time in 80 or 90 years. The film archivist can get the same excitement as they dive into an unknown historical time capsule like this. There are lots of exceptional 16mm films that come up for sale. But you have to have the $$ to buy them. If a special film does come up for sale and I can't afford it, I write to the seller and ask if they have a scan of the film to sell. But I have yet to acquire any films like that. Either they don't have a scan or they want hundreds of $$ for a scan. One seller, who turned out to be a stock footage company, wanted to sell me scans that were priced by the second! Stock footage companies are always bidding up films on eBay to sell them by the second. Who knows, maybe a stock footage company bid this film up. I've posted here before how some films can sell for as little as .01 on eBay...as long as no one bids on them. Now, I have purchased lots of scans of photos in the past...but no films. The closest thing to films was one seller sold me a standard def DVD of some films someone had scanned. But it only cost about $1 a film. Cine' scans would be an ideal way for me to acquire films...as long as they were decent quality and cheap. I'm not a film collector, I don't actually need the physical film. I'm just interested in the cine' scanner's digital output. Halloween Hallucinations was scanned on a Retroscan Universal 2K scanner by D.D.Teoli Jr..

Internet Photo: Fair Use No, nothing really to it to write about Phil. I got an old 2K Retroscan Universal. I keep it on a shelf and have to break down my flatbed scanning to use it. Or I break down my guillotine cutter to use it or I break down my sheet-fed scanner to use it. In other words, I have no good place to work where a dedicated setup can be had. Sadly, my scanning ability is very subpar. Especially when compared to the big boys like Robert and Perry or the stock footage companies or the film Archives out there. Almost everyone has a better cine' scanner than me except someone with a Wolverine. Now, I don't need to be like Perry or Robert, I don't need to collect scanners as Robert pointed out in one of his posts. I'd just like one half-ass decent scanner. If I do ever get a better scanner, I will have to make room for a dedicated scanner table where it can be set up permanently. But until that time, I'm not that worried about it. You never know what you will find on these old film reels Phill. Much of the cine' work is acquiring and sifting through 'pig in a poke' films where pickers buy them at yard sales for .50 and put them up on eBay as unknown reels for $25. The only limiting factors are money, time and space. Actually, money solves all those problems more or less. And the limits of my cine' work usually boils down to a lack of money. I've asked the Internet Archive for sponsorship. I've asked many film Archives, art philanthropists and scanner companies for sponsorship...but get nowhere. And when I talk about sponsorship, I'm just talking about getting a decent cine' film scanner so I can get to work...even if it was on loan. I've got thousands of 'pig in a poke' reels to go through, but have little incentive to do much unless the scanner situation improves. Cine' film is only one small area I work in Phil. Collection Scope Of The Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Archival Collection : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I don't have the time to scan millions of feet of films on the low-quality scanner then start over and rescan them all if and when I get a better scanner Phil. Also, my current scanner does not do sound. And sound films are a big part of the Archive. But if I happen to see something notable, such as this film, I'll scan it on the low-quality scanner just to get it out there. You never know when all this will be lost to history. You're in England Phil, you got tons of great films on eBay UK I'd love to buy, but global shipping $$ precludes it. Start picking up films and work on getting them scanned Phil. Can't say about the UK, but in the USA Retroscans come up for sale used on eBay for about $3500 to $4500. Anyone can do it...it just takes some $$ for the digitization. That is the problem Phil.

I was breaking down some old 16mm home movies of the circus from late 30's and found this. I wonder if they use the elephants to pull it out once the circus was ready to move on? Black Roustabouts Robbin Bros. Circus 1938 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive It is only so-so for a scan. I could not find my extension tubes, so it was heavily over scanned and cropped back down. That is the problem of not having enough workspace for a permanent setup and having to stow all your gear every time you move on to a new job. Well, luckily C mount extension tubes are not too $$. If I can't find them, I will just buy some more. It won't be the first-time things get eaten and I have to rebuy.

Yes, the archivists agree with you. I checked with some professional archivists and they said to leave it in. Here is what they sent me from the archivist book... From the FIAF Code of Ethics:

I just scanned a film from 1931 called Halloween Hallucinations. It is an advanced amateur's record of their Halloween costume party on October 31, 1931. Made right when the depression was going and the roaring 20's were over. At the end of the film, they do a stop motion of a piece of string spelling out 'The End.' Really interesting film. Anyway, there are tons of intertitles and cuts and they all have a jumpy splice along with a white gap. Should the splices be left in or edited out?

Screenshot: Lasergraphics Website - Fair Use What benefits does the Arriscan have over the Lasergraphics Scan Station? I had heard the Arriscan cost 3 or 4 times what the Scan Station cost.

No one knows a thing about it??

Does a diffused light source on a scanner produce as crisp scans as a non-diffused light source?

Forgot to add... Lots of useful info under the 'Education' section of the website.

I've got CD's going back to the 1980's that still work fine Tyler. VCD's that go back to the early 2000's that still work fine. Here is an early VCD I had made back in '03. Works great. But I just keep it in the preservation Archive as a sample Tyler. And these are not even M-Disc Tyler. VCD's were popular between the VHS and DVD era as a bridge of sorts to downsize from Laserdiscs. Now, I have had trouble with getting a custom computer not recognizing optical drives. So sometimes there is that problem. All that stuff you mentioned (LTO & HDD) is magnetic and subject to decay and problems. It is not archival. Engraved optical media (or if they ever come out with engraved synthetic quartz) is the old method of archival preservation when it comes to digital Tyler. But if you are using AZO discs you got to be careful how you store them. They may only be good for a decade or two...if stored right. If stored wrong, then they can be dead in a few weeks. Same DVD...top DVD was stored 'wrong' and has bronzing. LTO tape looks like a nice method for additional backups, but it is too underground Tyler. The companies need to make it more mainstream and affordable.

Thanks for the info Adam. Going trans? I guess it is the rage now! Negative Space Photo Nicki has a beautful website. Still crazy for Bolex I see. I'm glad your scans worked out for you. I wish I could get scans like that, but having a few million feet of film to scan precludes it with my budget. I hope to work on an old film from 1931 called Halloween Hallucinations shortly. All I got is an old Retroscan to work with. But it is better than projecting off the wall and copying with the video camera! I had hopes of getting a Baby Kinetta, but I think I'm a little late. The guy that runs the biz is pretty old and I'm afraid he has slowed down too much. I'm getting old myself, so know the slowdown effect firsthand...I'm just not that old yet. Well, good luck with your films and put up a few clips sometimes.

Photos: eBay - Fair Use No wasted BS or space on it. Anyone ever use one? What was your experience?

I bought a used LG 4K computer monitor someone was selling. It uses a special cable for 4K. The cable looks kinda like a HDMI cable, but it is a little different. There is a port on the computer for the 4K and the HDMI. When I plug in my regular monitor, which uses a HDMI cable, it shuts off the 4K monitor. Is there a trick to getting them to run at the same time? Thanks

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Wow...impressive portfolio you got! When you can have custom music made for a film you can really improve the quality of the film. Good luck with your biz!

Looks like no one uses worktables here. I've been using a Lowes special... I almost collapsed the legs a few times on it. Need something half-ass good. Something that won't fold up if you don't want it to. Look at this... While searching for tables I found out they have modesty panels on desks and tables. They don't want you are looking up the girls' dresses! I had never heard about them until 5 minutes ago! ...oh well, back on the search for a decent scanning / post work worktable!