Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Don't know how up to date it is with prices and equipment, but this is what I got. Arriscan 2019 05 US Archive Technologies : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Kinda confused about the IR dust cleaner. From what I gather on page 5, you pay $18.2k for a license to use the Diamant software with the Arriscan...but you still have to buy the Diamant. Is that right? Software License to use the ARRISCAN XT raw infrared channel for third party products, including special DIAMANT-Film IR-Cleaner dust busting GUI application for running on ARRISCAN XT Linux host PC with command-line interface for automated post-scan dust & scratch repair. includes: D2.0019781 1x IR-Cleaner Software License 10.0019777 1x Infrared System ARRISCAN XT Or are they giving you some equipment for the $18.2k?

An excellent rundown on camera angle possibilities. https://www.videomaker.com/how-to/shooting/your-complete-guide-to-camera-angles

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! I have not read anything as yet. I hope to catch up on the thread this week. Have not had much time for anything. I've been working on getting the cine' film Archive reels into ABC order as well as half a dozen other jobs. About 80% done with ABC 16mm reels. Then I will reshuffle them into better ABC organization to allow for working space. Once I have final organization, I will label the cans top and sides. Then I have to computerize it all. ABC's are fantastic! I can even find my split reels now...filed under 'S.' It has been a lot of work, as many of the reels were unknown and had to be reviewed some on the rewinds to figure out the content. Some will have to be broken down as they contained various films. Computer is no big deal. I just make files for each film. No need for database software to buy or learn. I can even put screenshots from the films in the files. It is searchable. It is fantastic! I use the same system I use in the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection. I'm not one to complicate things. I'm not an overthinker...I'm a simpleton. You need room to work on the shelves...pressure packed is not good. So, I will keep shuffling until I got it half-ass right. Even though I don't have room to keep the Archive all organized in one spot, it is better than it was. Got many hundred small reels. Hate em. 400 footers are my fav. The small reels will go into ABC boxes I use for my optical disc library. My dream house would be a small ranch with a roof that doesn't leak with 50 chrome wire shelf units from floor to ceiling. Shelving is king...it separates the hoarder from the non-hoarder...a place for everything and everything in its place! Internet Photo: Fair Use I've closed down the cine' Archive more or less to new acquisitions and have got rid of about 380 8mm reels. I've kept about 535 8mm reels for now. I hate 8mm, just too low Q, especially with archival material. There is no use acquiring more and more 16mm film if it can't be scanned. But for now, I'm keeping the bulk of the 16mm with the hope something changes in the future. And if it never gets scanned, someone else can deal with it when I kick off. The pickers may disperse it on eBay, or it may all end up in the nearest dumpster. Just no telling. I had met an old gal in the Post Office a while back that took an interest in my film work. She saw me unpacking some film shipments there and we got talking. Over time she had expressed an interest in buying me a cheap scanner for $50k. She was retired from biz and well off, she had few interests except a trip once in a while. I guess she was nostalgic from when she was a girl in school and watched the films. She didn't like the stag films, but she was not too prejudicial, so she overlooked it. Anyway, last time I talked with her I ran down the scanner options with her. Lasergraphics will never answer their emails. I would not be comfortable with sending them a f'ing penny. And the FilmFabriek won't scan the sound right. So, I told her I was not comfortable taking her $$ as I had no place to go with it. What a mess with these GD scanning companies. Well...that is how it is on 3.21.22

Dunno, it is beyond my pay grade as 'they' say. But, on a much lower level of working in demolition and construction decades ago, there was a lot of 'extras' involved in jobs when you could charge for material. Contractors would overspend and would keep the extras as a bonus of sorts after the job was done. They could charge for the same material on the next job, bill for it. They would buy the same material and use the receipts to get paid, then get refunds and use some of the leftover from the previous jobs. It may not be exactly related you your example. But in this day and age, people are getting more and more desperate when it comes to $$. The amount of spam I get has skyrocketed with scams. It is human nature to try and grab all the gusto you can. And sometimes it is not exactly honest. In your case, you may be able to build on your honesty and get a reputation of being able to produce good quality work within a moderate budget.

By chance, I just happened on this Gullwing on eBay. This is what $1.5 mil, buys you... $1.5 mil?? Sales tax on that is about $95K. For $95 K I could buy a Lasergraphics cheapo scanner and still have enough left over to buy a Cintel scanner for wall decoration!

The late cinematographer Robby Müller was a big advocate of testing. I remember watching an interview of him talking about doing extensive tests of various filters for an upcoming BW film. From what I recall, he said he ran film tests for a couple of weeks with filters. And in the end, he decided filters were not up to the job for his film. Müller was an advocate of letting the camera stay in the background and not having camera work be the main thing. Internet Photo: Fair Use Robby Müller, Inventive Cinematographer, Is Dead at 78 - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Bringing it home to our own forum, I read countless questions here that can't be solved by words, they have to be solved by tests. In the digital age you can't get things any easier to test than digital. And with film, testing is even more important. So, I can't understand why people have such a block to testing things. Can you tell me why? Recently I joined a forum that deals with various still scanning methods and post work. As specialized forum for scanning, I thought it would be a given that members would have test results comparing a flatbed scanner against a camera scanning setup, as they had sections for both of them. My interest in camera scanning is my archival work. Some archival work, especially some cine' film, is not conducive to flatbed scanning. So, I would like to know how methods compare before throwing some money at it. As well as knowing what direction to throw the money in. You would have thought I was from outer space asking the forum that question. I got nothing useful from the forum except a lot of replies criticizing me and my request. Not looking for pen pals, nor having time to waste, I left the forum. I will have to throw some money at it and do my own testing. I was just trying to economize on testing to find direction. Sometimes it is nice if you can build and refine on the testing that has gone before you. But to really get at the truth, you need to test things yourself sometimes. Breastfeeding won't yield much if the tit is dry. <><><><> Example of Newton rings from scanning film directly on glass - DDTJRAC

If you ever get anything done, send in some samples to see the results.

Have you done any samples to show us?

If you need VHS static for any projects, I have lots of them. I put a few up at the I.A. and will add more as I get time to cut them out. Internet Archive Search: vhs static teoli

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eBay: Fair Use Too bad more people didn't archive camera / cine' stores from their heyday. Now you search and search and are lucky to find a crapper photo on eBay for $25. Well, I can't complain much. I never took any photos of them and was around them for decades. Hell, I could have made a nice little archive just from picking up old camera / cine catalogs for free! If you see something interesting...Archive It! Take some photos. You are already there, so why not? You never know when it will disappear, and your photos may be the last extant images of it for the historical record. DDTJRAC ...Oh...one other thing. Do a decent job. I've noticed some cinematographers do crappy still work. It is like they dismiss it as 'snapshots' and only put effort in cine' work. Have some pride in your work. Don't produce shit for the historical record.

I had forgotten I had nearly a hundred old school Chinese / Asian / Oriental kung fu movies. They were packed away in storage for almost a couple of decades and just found them a few weeks ago. That was what spurred my Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple post. These old king fu movies were made all over the place...Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and some other places in the Orient. I like the old school kung fu movies because they were raw and the people making them worked uncensored. Being underground myself, I don't like censorship. Take this film Kids from Shaolin (1984) Kids From Shaolin Clip 1984 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The dad of the Wudang clan (latter called Wutang in America.) has 10 daughters. Across the river, the Shaolin Clan has 10 boys. They continually try to get together in the film, as boys and girls usually like to do, as it is nature's way. (Well, it used to be anyway.) The dad of the Wudang clan is desperate to have a boy. So, the old mom pops out another one and boom he get his boy. The dad is so proud he lifts the baby in praise and starts sucking and kissing the babies pee-pee. And not once or twice but a number of times. I didn't put it in the clip above. I don't know if you could and not get legal hassles. Just no telling what they consider as kiddy porn nowadays. Especially in conservative states. Anyway, point is, the Chinese / Asian / Oriental moviemakers are on a different wavelength!

The image extends over to the edge on the right. Was it blackened in processing or film production? Why were circles left open? Did the lab blacken both sides of the film? What is the purpose of blackening the edges of the film? They had a lot of wasted real estate back in the day with 16mm. The blackening process would be welcomed if one was scanning with a Retroscan. (It works better with black edge film.) Agfa used some beautifully tinted leader when processing. (No explanation needed...but feel free to add comments.) This the real stuff. Looks to be shot and processed in Europe. I didn't acquire it. It is not that $$, but I'm shutting down the film Archive for majority of new acquisitions. Just too much hassle with scans. Photos from eBay: Fair Use

An eBay search of "I Speak Fluent Movie Quotes T-Shirt, Theatre Shirt, Womens Drama Top, Nerd" will bring them all up. They got tons of styles. Don't you wanna be a nerd?

Here is a 2nd clip...from Messy Temple of the little monk breast feeding for a fight. (Also, I think these films were made in Taiwan and not China...but not sure.) Shaolin Popey II Messy Temple Breast Feeding Clip 1994 : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive It starts out with a short clip of the monks trying to leave the Shaolin Temple to save the old Master from being killed in an electric chair. To leave, they have to fight. Then it fast forwards to them trying to save the old Master from being electrocuted by the bad guys. The little monk fights a variety of people and drinks mothers milk from a bottle to get energy. But the bad guys get his bottle and smash it. Then a willing wet nurse appears and gives him what he needs to beat the bad guys. In Shaolin Popey #I, the little monk would suck on a binkie while fighting. Just cute as hell!

Crop from 1948 Carbro print of Joan Roberts - DDTJRAC Years ago, Perry poo-pooed one of my BW photos I put up here. He said it was only 8 bit and not 16 bit. I was supposed to do some tests to show the difference between 8 bit and 16 bit, but never got around it. Well, I made time today to do it and here are the bit tests for: 8 bit BW JPEG 16 bit BW JPEG 8 bit BW TIFF 16 bit BW TIFF 24 bit color JPEG 48 bit color JPEG 24 bit color TIFF 48 bit color TIFF All 15 collection of tests are here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=bit+depth+teoli If you just want the original scan group with no adjustments, it is here: Bit depth scan tests Part 1 of 14 - original scans D.D.Teoli Jr. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive And here is an addendum to show crop magnification of the original scans above. https://archive.org/details/carbro-3-24-bit-color-crop-800-dpi-tiff-os-d.-teoli-jr. But these tests are all for still photos. You will have to test how things are with cine' software. Although still photography and cinematography are brothers and sisters...they are not identical twins. <><><><> 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

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nowhere-announcement-las-underground-museum-said-shutting-notice-2086084 In a surprise announcement, Los Angeles’s beloved alternative art space the Underground Museum has abruptly closed “until further notice.” An exhibition of work by the museum’s late co-founder, Noah Davis, will be removed from view, and the venue’s newly hired co-directors, Meg Onli and Cristina Pacheco, will depart from their roles. Never heard of them. I don't know if they are called 'Underground Museum' because they are subterranean? Or they are about modern art redo's from the Underground Railroad? Or that they fancy themselves as 'underground artists.' If it is the later, anyone with a brick and mortar museum in L.A. of all places with real directors...is not very underground. And if that be the case, I'd say they don't know what f'ing underground is. Here is how I used to work in NYC before I hurt my foot and the virus hit. nsfw Wanna shoot in NYC but don’t have the $. No problem…you can do it on a broke bohemian’s budget. – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (wordpress.com) When they eat leftover food people leave on McDonalds tables, sleep in the subway and shower at the 'Y' once a week from a free one day pass they download from the libraries' internet...then they can call themselves underground. Underground... GD...I'd love to be underground like them!

Film organization is coming along great. So good in fact, I took half the day off to do a bit depth test that Perry had sponsored years ago. When I say Perry had sponsored it, I mean it stems from Perry's poo-pooing my 8bit BW photography from years ago. I never had the time to do a proper bit test. But on another forum, 2 members told me my tests are worthless. (In another test area.) Then a different forum someone said my sun fading test are useless garbage. So, the combo of the 2 recent 'worthless' critics + the 'useless garbage' critic + Perry's dismissal of 8bit BW photography finally gave me enough oomph to get my ass in gear. I will be posting the exhaustive bit depth results shortly once the 14 collections are uploaded to the I.A.. Getting back to the cine' film organization... I'm about 90% done with the A,B,C's. Once everything is shelved in ABC order, I will label them, then I can start with the computer list. I hope to be done by early April. It is so important to get those tags down with a collection to find stuff. I used to use a paper notebook and you can't do much searching with that. And, as a bonus, a lot of the tags are already done in the title and description. Not like I need to do a lot of extra 'tag' work. The holy trinity of archival work is... 1 High quality scans / photos...don't produce shitty work! 2 Tags...lots of them. 3 Description...a good one. Now...if you use lots of tags repeatedly, make a text file of them for repeat business.

Screenshot: DDTJRAC Full report: An example of cost for a school to rent or buy an educational DVD D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ...back in the day, 16mm purchases and rental costs were about the same for schools.

Sure, my pleasure. Archival material, or any visual material for that matter, does no good if never seen. Old weddings and cars are fascinating stuff! I got a Kodachrome wedding reel from the 50's / 60's I need to scan. They got some great fashion model type gals in it.

Everyone on the internet is not an expert. My advice...test it out for yourself. My ideas are continually poo-pooed by people. Does not matter to me one bit because I go directly to the bottom line...I test. The only time you want to give more weight to the 'experts' is when you can't test. Then, you are dependent on what others say about a thing. Good luck!

Here is a small one. DataCare 2025 Fireproof LTO / Hard Drive Safe (turtlecase.com) If broke, get a small fire chest safe. Not as good, but much better than nothing. fire chest safe - Google Search I've never used them, but that Turtle company is something. They make LTO Tape shredders and HDD crushers! Also, great storage racks for media.

They got some great bulk lots and singles of Amateur Cine World mags at eBay. (Photos eBay: Fair Use) BUT...they are all in England. Shipping to the USA is stupendous and my broke budget can't afford it. But YOU can make use of it with your cheap local shipping rates. If someone wants to buy collections of them and scan, I will split the cost of the mags with you. You scan at 600 dpi and share scans with me. Hell, if you can negotiate a package deal on the lots cheaper than listed there, I will pay 100% for the mags and you pay for the local shipping. They got some fantastic archival material in England. I see lots of great 16mm films and mags I'd love to buy. Most are pretty cheap...but sadly, the shipping always kills it.

They have a gal at the Data Hoarders Forum that has archived 25,000 chromes with online access. She has done a bang-up job at providing hi-res scans of found chromes for open content CC use. She scans everything, bad exposure, fogged chromes, whatever. But she does not scan naked babies and said so when some kids criticized her for 'privacy and copyright issues' for working with other people's found photos. Well, leave it to the kids to come up with privacy and copyright with found photos. The job of the archivist is mainly to deal with other people's material and some of it was copyrighted at one time or maybe still is. The job of the archivist is to sift out what needs to be archived balanced with copyright. And for the women and for the young people, maybe privacy is a concern. (Although, from what I read, privacy is a big issue in Europe, so it may all depend on which country you are in.) As a candid street photographer for 50+ years and an archivist for many decades, privacy seldom enters my purview. My concern? Is it legal? If legal, I do as I like most of the time. And with copyright, the legal question must be balanced with preservation. This comes under the auspices of the greater good or the greater right. Although if I know something may hurt someone, I will inject some privacy concerns in it, such as I did with 'Hakenkreuz in a Dress.' Or when I put certain photos up at Wiki Commons and they demand commercial use license. I will block out the face, and in the description, I mention the same photo is available at the I.A., with no censorship for non-commercial use. But getting back to these naked babies...what should be done with them? Trashed? Archived as is? Censored with privates blocked out? Her Archive is totally unorganized, so if the naked babies would have been done, they would have been mixed in with everything else. As it stands, if the naked babies were done, they would stand out like a sore thumb as a collection of naked babies! I have a large VHS Archive and some of the home movie found footage may have the family's naked baby in them. I've never thought anything of it. I copy the tapes as-is. I guess if a woman or young person was digitizing them, they would cut out the naked babies.

Yes, lots of ads for building radios / equipment in the early radio magazines. I think that was Radio Shack's main biz in the beginning...selling kits and parts. The risqué cards were a lot rarer than the average cards. I don't know their history, I just know some existed. Maybe they were sent between like minded operators / old acquaintances?