Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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.

Lost in storage. She is inspecting an assault rifle with the military. Looked all over for it. Last time I saw it was 2 years ago when working in the storage locker. Now poof! Well, here is one from 1967 by Yousuf Karsh... Queen Elizabeth II April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022 DDTJRAC

Was working on a job scanning 3,500 pages of old Sotheby's photo auction catalogs. Came across this on-set photo in a 1999 catalog and thought of you all.

Been searching for months trying to get a basic work computer built. I tried to contact this company for some questions and look what I get...

I had bought a couple of these books from Japan on eBay. They look like they are a book of odd or funny photos they find on the internet or somewhere else. Are they common / popular in Japan? Is there a name for this book or genre of books? What can you tell me about them? They are about 5 x 7 inches and +/- 250 pages. Some of the photos are (R) sex oriented, others are not. I will eventually upload to the I.A. in higher res. There are girly ads in the beginning and at the end of the book, but the rest of the book are all photos. The first photo, which is the cover, is a good representation of the photo mix in the book. Getting back to the girly ads...what are they about? Thanks!

I had never heard of the magazine until I started on a project in 2021 to archive eBay's 'adult only' section, which they were shutting down on June 15, 2021. eBay routinely had about 800,000 listings in their adult only section. I was only able to review about 10% of them for the project. I didn't get much notice and I only had a few weeks to do the work; but eventually I was able to archive about 27,000 photos and screenshots for the eBay Adult Only project. A couple days before eBay was going to pull the plug to shut things down, I came across the Sex to Sexty magazines. I didn't have much time to screw around, but I could see it needed some archiving attention. So, I made a deal with a couple of sellers and picked up an instant mini-collection of 28 magazines for a few dollars per magazine. I just finished scanning the magazines, which totaled about 2000 scans. Very interesting going back to the late 60's and early 70's. Humor had no bounds back then. I am uploading them to the Internet Archive if they are of interest to you. <><><><> Press photo of Weegee being dropped out with white opaque. Internet photo: Fair Use

Such as fades, titles, stabilizations, color work and such. Nothing fancy.

People call it whatever they like. Sometimes you get a mix of golden and blue hour as in this photo I shot for my Bikers' Mardi Gras project. Other times it is heavy golden or all blue. Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. (Candid) None of that really matters, as far as what you call it. Shoot early AM and you get nice color. Shoot at sunset and you get nice color. That is all you need to know. My advice...if a certain look is important to you; do some test shoots in the early AM and sunset then you can get an idea of what you will get. But no matter how you slice it...it is a crapshoot as natural lighting is not repeatable. If you desire a certain look and can't get it, then pay for some colorist to doctor it up.

1952 Christmas commercial from early days of T.V. Jewelite Hairbrush Commercial Christmas 1952 : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Some interesting history from TV's early days... 1949: In January, the number of TV stations had grown to 98 in 58 market areas. 1949: The FCC adopted the Fairness Doctrine, which made broadcasters responsible for seeking out and presenting all sides of an issue when covering controversy. This act was a supplement to the Communications Act of 1934, which required broadcasters to give equal airtime to candidates running in elections. 1951: I Love Lucy, sponsored by Philip Morris, was born. The half-hour sitcom ranked as the number one program in the nation for four of its first six full seasons. 1951: On June 21, CBS broadcasted the first color program. As mentioned above, CBS’s color system only worked with a small number of TVs across America. Only 12 customers across America could see the first color TV broadcast. 12 million other TVs were blank for this program. 1952: Bob Hope takes his comedy from radio to TV as The Bob Hope Show debuts in October, 1952. 1952: By the end of 1952, TVs could be found in 20 million households across America, a rise of 33% from the previous year. U.S. advertisers spent a total of $288 million on television advertising time, an increase of 38.8% from 1951. 1953: RCA releases its color broadcasting system, which worked on 12 million TVs instead of 12. 1954: NBC launches The Tonight Show with comedian Steve Allen. 1955: Gunsmoke, the classic western TV show, began its 20 year run on CBS. 1958: 525 cable TV systems across America serve 450,000 subscribers. In response, CBS takes out a two page advertisement in TV Guide stating that “Free television as we know it cannot survive alongside pay television.” History of the Television | From The 1800s To Current Time (bebusinessed.com)

Here are a few more clips of Riefenstahl's work. Have maybe another 3 - 5 clips to do. Internet Archive Search: Leni Riefenstahl Teoli I guess there was some controversy over Riefenstahl's work. Some critics saying it is only propaganda and not documentary. Well, it can be both. It is a propaganda film that has documentary and historical value as well. I never get caught into those debates. Almost any record we have going back in time has historical value. Years ago, on a photo forum, they were debating whether it was good shooting photos of atrocities for fun like the Nazis sometimes did. They discussed something like it depended on the person's motives or if they had a 'good' heart, as to whether they would give their blessings to it. Or in later years like some people do now on the internet broadcasting gore. Well, good heart or motive has nothing to do with it. The material is all part of history, and the historical record does not need approval from anyone nor does the creator of the material need a good heart to make it of historical importance. The motives and heart are all separate issue, unless it is all a lie. But even if a lie, it can still have documentary value for the parts that are true.

Every country pronounces thing differently. I think Japan is Nippon...but not sure. It is hard to know all the facts unless you are a native. And things change over time due to social mores. For instance, the Laplanders, I've read, now take offense to the name. And I've been told Eskimo is an offensive word now. Internet: Both Nippon and Nihon literally mean "the sun's origin", that is, where the sun originates, and are often translated as the Land of the Rising Sun. This nomenclature comes from Imperial correspondence with the Chinese Sui Dynasty and refers to Japan's eastern position relative to China. The origin of the name Japan is not certain, but researchers say it probably came from the Malayan ″Japung″ or the Chinese ″Riben,″ meaning roughly land of the rising sun. Historians say the Japanese called their country Yamato in its early history, and they began using Nippon around the seventh century.

Leni Riefenstahl was quite a gal. Talented in many areas as well as sports. She was a pig part of Hitler's propaganda movie machine. I have a couple of 16mm reels that I believe were part of her films. But I don't know which films they were from. Haven't dug that deep yet, they are still in storage. In this clip from 'Triumph des Willens' aka 'Triumph of the Will' 1935 by Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler arrives by plane to a triumphant greeting from the people of Germany. Hitler Arrives in Nuremberg 1934 Leni Riefenstahl : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive When you look around Nuremberg, think back how 95% of it was destroyed a few years later in WW2. Also notice some of the unique camera angles, the use of the plane shadow and close ups of people's faces that Riefenstahl used. I will cut up some more clips from the film when I get time.