Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Did they use a fan for cooling?

Northlight? If they use propriety bulbs and they go out of biz and you will be shopping on eBay for used bulb from Ukraine. I've only used LED in the scanner, so no experience with incandescent. On the scanner, I'm happy with it. I use incandescent in the projectors and hate them. Some guy on eBay mods Zeiss film viewers to run on quartz bulbs. It is a big improvemnt.

I'm catching up slow, so you may have already answered this... But what is it? And send in more photos related to it or put it up a the I.A.

Forgot to mention... If you want to make a go of it and sell scanner upgrades...sell them on eBay. Make a YT video demonstrating them. You will sell some as long as price is not crazy. The people that go for Retroscan are generally not rich. Or if you are on a tight budget, list something small to sell on eBay and you can advertise the other items and users will contact you. There seems to be a good amount of Retroscan users out there for the earlier models. They are hungry for any Retroscan related items, and they sell pretty good on eBay.

https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/kenny-schachter-crypto-pad-2061146? An interesting article on artists and NFT's.

In the USA incandescent bulbs are outlawed.

Fast is not that big a deal to me. Good and cheap are along with sound. Fast would be important to commercial scanning companies. Generally, everyone likes fast, but you know the deal...beggars can't be choosers.

I had inquired about adding a 4K cam with the manufacturer, but they showed no interest. But concur, 4K would be nice.

For 8mm it looks like an improvement on the Wolverine. I started with a Wolverine way back. I.Q. is very low and it broke after a short time. Something like 19 - 21 reels killed it. I'd be worried about Filmfabriek because they are a European company that is does not seem to be represented well in the USA as far as mainstream distributors. It would just depend on parts and repairs. But it looks like a beautiful little machine for 8mm. I've got a few hundred mostly 8mm and some Super 8mm to scan. But the bulk of my film Archive is 16mm. Yes, the Retroscan's weak point is warped film. It will scan it with the old gates but not the Lightpin gate. Even though it will scan warped film, it will not hold it flat. And there is the sound issue of being a silent scanner. Other than that, the Restroscan seems to be a good, reliable workhorse. This looks like a great thread. I hope to catch up on it some. I got no cine' scanner photos to contribute here. So, I will contribute this since it is 'scanner' related. This photo was done with a flatbed scanner and not a camera. It shows the depth of field available with a flatbed scanner on a 3D item. Selection from Girl in a Box D.D.Teoli Jr.

Wow, too bad it was not all archived in photos. Mendelson's sounds amazing. I looked on eBay. Does not look like Mendelson's had a catalog. Never thought about the processing as a component to film going bad. I thought cine' films was pretty regulated as far as processing. Press photos were notorious for poor processing. They just needed it for the next newspaper then they didn't care. Poorly processed press photo DDTJRAC

1963 DDTJRAC - Graphic Arts Archive This Borrowdale camera took 48x48 inch film and their biggest model cost $13,750.00. I don't know what the box behind the guy was for. Maybe for film boxes? It would have been in the darkroom with the rear half of the camera. The process / repro camera took up 2 rooms. Half was in light and half was in the darkroom. The skinny box going up in the air was probably for roll down glass halftone screens. There is a crank on the right for lowering and raising the screen. You could either use glass halftone screens or film screens that were adhered with the vacuum back. This camera is a crazy design, it looks to have 2 backs. We used smaller process cameras, nothing like this. Too bad or I could report on it. I will have to see if I can find some old printers from back in the day to question. But as time goes one, less and less old timers in any field left to question. From reading the literature, I believe the $13,750.00 also covered the onsite installation team. You used to get a lot of bang for your buck back in the day. Their smaller camera taking 20x24 inch film was only $7,400 with install.

Do they have a diversity auditor on payroll to make sure the movie mix is up to snuff? ACADEMY ESTABLISHES REPRESENTATION AND INCLUSION STANDARDS FOR OSCARS® ELIGIBILITY | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences I had heard on the radio that Asians don't count. (Or they count less?) I'm not sure as I only heard part of the story. They said Asians are considered 'White Adjacent' in the racial mix picture. So maybe 2 Asians = 1 Black with the BIPOC mix? (I'm speculating.) Artists don't usually like to be told what to do. Are the big boys (and girls) of Hollywood complying with BIPOC diversity standards for the Oscars? Will the Oscars also require women to be in the mix? Women are like 51% of the country and Blacks are 13%. Seems like women were left out. (Although I believe CA now demands that a woman be on every large corporation's board of directors in their state.)

I use Movavi. It is a good intuitive program for dummies. I learned how to use it by playing with it. I'm an old still film photographer, not a young, savvy video / computer person. (But I know how to run a nitrogen burst processor and make dye transfer prints.) I can't say Movavi is a good video program compared to the big boys. But it works great for a simple to use program for archival use and the types of films I've made. The Russians make it, and support is spotty. Color correction and post work is limited. Zoom options seem to be limited. Those are the only areas I wish it did better. Here are a few films I made with it. (I've used it for hundreds of shorts.) This shows samples of the scene transitions with Movavi. Sodbusters In Transition D.D.Teoli Jr. : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive NSFW China Doll D.D.Teoli Jr. : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Showcases audio mixing from 5 files. NSFW I tried all the free crapper video programs when I first started. I could not make heads or tails out of most of them. Movavi fit the bill almost perfectly for me. I downloaded the free DaVinci...I gave up. They have a new Movavi, mine is an older version, so they may have improved it. But I think it is a subscription model. You can download a free trial version of Movavi to try it. Cine' film is only a small fraction of my work. Collection Scope Of The Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Archival Collection : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive So can only spend so much time on it. If cine' was all I did, then I guess I could do better. Still, for archival work, you don't have to be that good. You are not replacing sky's and all the BS they do. But great post work would be a plus. Archival material can benefit from good color and contrast grading. Good luck!

...oh One other tip. Let your inkjet prints dry a spell before evaluating them. They get lighter when fully dry.

I send out RPPC usually 5 times a year to people that may be interested in my work. It is always good to try and keep your name out there. And RPPC is a cheap way to send out original prints. But, due to my budget, I don’t use top grade paper when I print the post cards. For my regular prints I mainly use Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta. For RPPC’s I generally use the less expensive Moab Juniper Baryta. Most of the curators and gallerists I mail to trash the mailings as soon as they get them. If you are lucky to be a darling of the art world, then you are highly regarded. But for the rest of us…you may be treated like a homeless man offering them a sack of shit. So, no need to waste more money on the mailings than is necessary, if it will just end up in the trash. Now, I don’t send out garbage, the paper has to do a decent job and be true to the subject…at least 90% true anyway. The Juniper Baryta is doable, it is just not as good as the Hahnemühle, so it falls in the range of a 90%’er. All my printing is perfected for the Hahnemühle. When you switch papers, you sometimes need to rework in post to get the right contrast or exposure. That is how it is with the Juniper Baryta. It prints light compared to the Hahnemühle. There are 2 ways to go about the adjustment. You can rework the image with post processing software. Or you can do it with printer adjustments. Here are examples of the exposure adjustments made with the printer on the Moab Juniper Baryta paper. The photo on the left is printed with no adjustments. The center photo is 5% darker and the photo on the right in 10% darker. ‘Cornered‘ Hollywood, CA 1973 Selection from Peephole: Peering into the World of 1970’s Hollywood & L.A. by D.D.Teoli Jr. Depending on your printer, it should offer you similar adjustments for exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. I don’t like doing a lot of in-printer adjustments. For big post jobs, they have to be done with software and not done with the printer. But, with a simple adjustment for a one-time job, I generally just dial it in with the printer. <><><><> 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. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

People need to invest some $$ in education. If you can't get it from the library, buy it and resell it after you read it. If you take a little loss, so what. It is cheaper than going to USC. I spent a lot of $$ to experiment with IR flash for 4.5 years. Sometimes you are successful, other times not. But you gotta try if you can swing it $$ wise. Beining in a capitalist world, don't the film devotees think if it was possible that probably someone would have come out with a film that is 30% cheaper than the market? Back in the day I would use Ilford to undercut Kodak's prices for BW film. But those days are long gone. Any way you cut it...film is $$. Now, even without silver, acetate leader is $$. 16mm acetate leader | eBay We used to have maybe 10 colors of leader. Now you are lucky to find white acetate. You can get the poly leader cheaper, somewhat. But it has a static problem and attracts dust like a magnet. That is the beauty of acetate. No dust magnet.

Shopping for ink today. Now it is $75 up from Jan 3 of $72. You don't like it...don't print. They got you by the proverbial balls. Have you ever seen a long-term decrease in film prices OP? Aren't film prices more dependable on escalation than California real estate OP? Maybe China, Russia or India could help with film. Best bet is to propose it to them. I remember using DVD's from India about 12 - 14 years ago. They died in dark storage very fast. If India ever makes film, I hope they have improved things. Russia makes all out cheap steel cased ammo. Korea makes some cheap ammo as well. Oh...and Thailand makes the high-priced ink. Shop your new film hopes by those countries OP. The Artist and the Curator - Nano

Red Skelton Photo: eBay Yes, had read the films were printed backwards. I've got a few BW arcade films that are backwards. But no Scopitone, they are nudie cuties. Must have been the same principal. Did you ever see a coin arcade machine? Did it look like the Scopitone? I had read the machines that played soundies offered no choice. I guess you got the next film that was up. The arcade peep shows used mainly 400 footers from what I can tell. The film had a notch every 50 feet or so for another quarter to be inserted. (See notch below) What happened to your VS films? Did they get trashed? Very few Scopitone films on eBay. They go for $50 to $150 each. Scopitone 16mm Film Coin Op Juke Box with content Rare Circa 1950's - 60's | eBay Photo: eBay Circa 1950s Scopitone Advertising Poster | eBay ...never heard of Mendelson's, but I guess they were klinda a big deal. Mendelson's Surplus in Dayton, Ohio - Google Search YT has some videos on them. I will have to check them out. Just found them. When you think about it, it is pretty amazing it can thread and rewind the films automatically on demand.

Photo: Joe Mabel via Wikipedia Scopitone was a jukebox that showed 16mm color musical films with a magnetic soundtrack. They were popular in the early 1960s and were the predecessor of music videos. Before Scopitone there were soundies jukeboxes that showed 16mm black and white musical shorts with an optical soundtrack. Here are a couple of Scopitone films for your perusal... The Exciters 'Tell Him' Scopitone 1963 : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ' We'll Sing In The Sunshine' Debbie Reynolds Scopitone : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Beside music, many of the Scopitone films had a risqué component to them and would give you quick teases of some of the girl's girly parts.

LeRoy Neiman 1921-2012 Playboy VIP magazine Whenever the Olympics come up, I think of him. He was always featured at the old Olympics doing his paintings. Here he is at one of the Playboy Clubs in 1971 working on a mural.

Thanks Phil. So how would this work? https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/11/british-museum-banks-on-turner-nfts-after-hokusai-initiative Everybody buys shares in an artwork, but the museum still owns it? Do you get a serial numbered hi-res digital image with your share?

https://www.redsharknews.com/the-dslr-is-now-dead? I used to like DSLR's for sports. But I don't shoot sports anymore, so won't miss it. What about you? I know this is a topic like film vs digital. Each camp got their own likes. What I always wanted was a M43 digital rangefinder that was a Leica clone, was all manual and the size of the old Olympus half-frame cameras. If it did 2K that would be great!

I don't think they will ever run out of silver. I think the pollution police would be more of a worry with the processing chemicals. Or it may be the machines to process films, spare parts, etc that is the nail in the coffin for film. Do they even make still or cine' film processors anymore? Annie Leibovitz as a toddler! DDTJRAC

I got a somewhat diverse collection of underground newspapers from the 1960's & 1970's. It is interesting going back in time to that era. I was a teenager back then. Groovy was a word that was used a lot in the classified ads as well as 'aware.' People weren't 'woke' yet...they were AWARE! Classified ad L.A. Star 1972 DDTJRAC Classified ad L.A. Star 1972 DDTJRAC I think 'hip' was used before aware, but I'm not sure. I was not too hip or aware back then. All these newspapers are oversize and have to be flatbed scanned with the large format scanner, so it takes time. Even if you got a large format sheet fed scanner you can't run newsprint through it or it crinkles the paper, and the scanner rollers get fouled with black ink. If it is a big center spread, it has to be done on the vacuum easel and copy stand. Click to view DDTJRAC Back then we just threw away the papers. Some were .10, some were .25 and some were free. Now some of them go for $45 to $100 each on eBay. The San Francisco Oracle is one of the most prized papers as well as anything with Robert Crumb cartoons in them. Classified ad L.A. Star 1972 DDTJRAC Very entertaining the things you find in the papers. This guy advertises for someone to play with his wife's long hair. Classified ad L.A. Star 1972 DDTJRAC Another ad shows a pretty gal straddling her big dog 'Wolfie' and selling 2 bestiality sex photos for $2 a pop. These ads here are just some of the tame ones. I'll leave the bestiality stuff in the 8mm archive for now. For some reason most of the bestiality porn was on 8mm and not 16mm. I'm still trying to figure out if that stuff is fit for legal consumption or not or if some statute of limitations applies due to their age. Trying to find out the law in that area is not easy. For me as an archivist, I have no censorship hangups. (Another favorite word of that day) But that does not go too far if you run into legal issues. Back then, things were legal that are illegal now and vice versa.

Carbro print of Contance Towers eBay photo - Fair Use Before dye transfer, carbro was it for outstanding color and permanence. Been looking for a carbro for 4 years+ . Finally found one last week. It is gorgeous color, printed in 1959. I plan to color test it for fade resistance later in 2022 when sun comes out after the winter. I hate to cut it, but it has to be done for the greater good. Trouble with it is...it is a huge 20x24 photo. I've got a large format flatbed scanner, but it only goes to 11 x 17. They got bigger flatbed scanners, if you got $5k to spend. Anyway, the copy stand and vacuum easel will handle it. I wish I had the dough to buy a Phase One or other top end large format digital camera for my copy stand. I believe the print is from newspaper's archive. They would get a big carbro print for color reproduction with the process camera for halftone screening. But that is just speculation. It was wrapped and labelled as such, but the old wrapper did not fit it 100%. The wrapper may have been for something else. It is always detective work, but the longer time goes by, no witnesses are to be found to ask. I've been around photography since the late 60's. I've never seen a carbro print in person until now. They have a certain look to them that are unique to carbro when you view them from various angles. Also see the corners for the color registration overlaps on the bottom left and right corners. If you are interested in the 3 color printing process, see: Bob Pace 'The Dye Transfer Process' Parts 1-5 VHS D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Bob Pace 'The Dye Transfer Process' Parts 6-11 VHS D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive They are for dye transfer. But it is similar to carbro as far as color separations.