Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Castle was the Netflix of its day for 16mm and 8mm films. They also had Sterling. Coronet and some others. But Eugene Castle was King! Here is a fantastic 16mm 1946 Castle film of various hunting dogs and a rare English stag hunt, western Bobcat hunt, various pointing and retriever dogs on bird hunts and an 'ice breaker' dog. https://archive.org/details/wonder-dogs-castle-1946-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.

https://www.videomaker.com/how-to/lighting/lighting-for-video-the-dos-and-donts "Our cameras run on light. They need it to produce a clear image that’s both meaningful and pleasing to the eye. Without enough light, you’ll be left with noisy, distracting footage."

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Wow...Great article! Like the article said, in the old days they shot live broadcast to 16mm film to preserve it. I see 16mm kinescope films on eBay once in a while. Kinescope - Wikipedia 16mm ad: TRUE TEMPER TOOLS- 60's vintage KINESCOPE ABC-TV network ad SUPER RARE! | eBay Why don't they just copy to M-Disc / BD-R? That is as good as it will get unless they put it on quartz. I don't know how much better video tape is than audio tape. But over time much of the 1/4" tape goes south with oxide shedding. Oxide shedding from reel to reel tape. Amount of debris from (2) 7 inch vintage tape reels ran on a Revox B-77 tape deck. I guess they got the problem of finding working machines to do a transfer. Reminds me of looking on eBay to buy used bulbs for some of my Zeiss film editors / projectors. Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. Crazy machine. Has 2 levels for reels! http://susanetheridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ampex-7800-Type-A-1-1024x682.jpg

Cine' film editing table detail from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive. Details of photo are: press tape splice holder, old pens turned into splice burnishers, aluminum splicing block, marker, scrap paper, loupe, stamp to mark film labels as scanned and waste tray with trash composed of old artist's tape, masking, scotch tape, snips of film and press tape refuse. I like those little colored plastic ashtrays. Walmart does not seem to sell them. Amazon does not have anything like that. Not the size and colors I'm looking for other than soft silicone. That one is an old one I found in the trash. I like them for organizing small things. I use the splicing block for pin registration only. I use an old Siemens glue splicer, one side of it that is, to make the cut. Does a great job in cutting between film frames. I guess I'm lucky to be an archivist. I get tons of practice making film splices with all sorts of film. I was trying to buy a guillotine tape film splicer, but the brand I was looking for is $$ and hard to find. I had one splice burnisher that came with my old Kodak splicer and was always worried about losing it. A film collector told me he used old ballpoint pens. Sure enuf...they work great. I can lose as many as I want! When I'm working hard, I have to empty the trash tray every few hours. Before I got it, trash was all over the place. If you had a high-class setup, you could have a waste hole cut into the table to sweep trash into. Selection from D.D.T Jr. Advertising Archive 1970

Hey, no one said you can't go home to visit in the Philippines. Cold water flat - Captain of Wall Street 90014 L.A. 1974 - D.D.Teoli Jr. In the old days 1970's and earlier, you could get cold water flats that were next to nothing in NYC and L.A.. Like $65 a month. You had a room and a sink (to pee in) and the communal bathroom was down the hall. But those days are over. They outlawed them for zoning. They got PODs now, but they are pricey. Pod Life D. D. Teoli Jr. 10m 10s : D.D. Teoli Jr. as archivist : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Whatever direction you take...great luck on achieving your dreams!

I haven't used Vimeo for a couple of years. They banned me way back. Then I complained and they reinstated my videos and account...but all the links to the videos I had used were now dead. It just wasn't worth the hassle, so I gave up on them. I have a lot of followers at Vimeo and I felt bad for them, as I never send in anything. So, for Christmas, I sent in a short video. In less than 1-1/2 hours, Vimeo removed the video and sent me a notice. The problem child was a 16mm nudie cutie, maybe 1930's or 40's with no copyright notice that I had scanned. I tried to dispute it, but the reply address won't work... Maybe they are pissed I don't pay them money? All my previous work there has been archival material. Never an issue with that part. The ban a few years ago was from sexual content and not because it was archival...but they reinstated it. And it was hard-core, not tame like this recent one.

Christmas Eve's D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Christmas Eve's is a NSFW 16mm 'arts student' vintage nudie cutie film about 4 pretty gals waking up on Christmas morning and unwrapping their gifts. The film is a scratched up, worn out and badly warped, multi-generation dupe suffering from vinegar syndrome with lots of breaks, splices and blown sprockets. Most of the shadow and highlight detail are gone. Still, it is a most welcome and rare time capsule from bygone era. The films for art students or graphic art students were labeled as such to bypass censorship laws. The film stock code dates it at either 1928 or 1948. But neither date is necessarily what it could be. The film is a dupe and it could have been produced in a different year and duped in the year dated on the film stock. In the movie it shows Christmas on the calendar near the bed falling on a Monday. In 1928 Christmas was on a Tuesday. In 1948 Christmas was on a Saturday. Just no telling when the film was made. The book Dirty Movies: An illustrated History of the Stag Film 1915-1970 Di Lauro & Rabkin 1976 has no listing for the film. The film originated from a stag film librarian's collection. Back in the day, many men's fraternal organizations and lodges maintained a library of stag films for their members to view on stag night festivities. They also had stag librarians that were similar to the 'D.J.s' we have now. They would rent out their film collection and they service as a projectionist to college fraternities and bachelor parties. I was concerned with the sound I used on this film. There was a discussion recently on the forum about unintelligible dialogue and unbearably loud sound in movies. Normally I just add projector sound to silent movies, but I felt this one could benefit from some Christmas music mixed in. So I wanted to get some feedback as to the audio. I marvel at some of the big productions with zillions of people working on them. All those GD eyeballs previewing a project and still they can produce crap. With this film I didn't take the advice I had previously given you of not mixing background noise, wind sounds, car sounds, poorly recorded dialogue and music all together. It is just too much and can result in an audio track of unintelligible dialogue. But, I did limit the audio mix to 2 tracks to try and avoid that problem of just too much audio soup in the pot. To get some input on the audio I asked an old gal I know for her opinion as to the loudness of the band-saw audio and if the music was too soft. Very, very seldom do I get any help or feedback on any of my projects. There is just no one to ask here. Plus I got thousands of movies in the Archive to do, I bang them out as fast as I can. But with Christmas Eve's I spent more time on it than I would have liked, investing a good portion of a day on it. So I figured I could spent a little more time on it to seek out an audio opinion on it before letting it lose. Well, being 2021, after a few minutes viewing the film, the lady got offended, stopped watching it and would not help me. She said my music choice was sacrilegious and that finished up her visit. I told her I don't have months to work on films to find the perfect music and this was the best I could find within my time constraints that didn't have copyright worries. And I told her it is just a little nudie cutie, it is not like it is hardcore porn. But my explanation didn't matter to her. So, I was back to my normal way of doing things and did the best I could judging the audio on my own. When I talk to you about divorcing personal prejudice from work, this gal was a perfect example of not being able to do that. Her personal prejudice precludes her from being a good archivist. She would be the type of archivist that destroys something she finds offensive. Here is a previous post about that subject... Are women too prejudicial to be good archivists? – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection (wordpress.com) Best Wishes for a Pleasant Holiday Season Esteemed Forum Members! 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 Selection from Ghosts of Christmas Past DDTJRAC

Yes, dialogue on some of these movie's stink. I just don't get it. How can they watch a movie a zillion times in production and not see it within 10 seconds? They should hire me as a consultant. A few times I shut the movie off after 10 to 30 minutes if it has unintelligible dialogue. Here is a tip boys and girls... Don't have music playing, car, wind and background noises and poor quality recordings of dialogue all going on at the same time. You can't understand the dialogue! Selection from De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District 2014 by D.D.Teoli Jr.

I got the same problem now with how loud to go with sound. I am using a bandsaw sound for a freaky production company photo of some doctors sawing a frozen corpse / torso down the center through the penis. (Real vintage photo, not a bullshit photo) I am testing out graduated sounds that border on uncomfortable. It is only 6 or 7 seconds long, but have not made any decisions as yet. Sound plays an important part of movie drama. But I tend to be on the conservative side and usually scale back a notch or two on some of my extreme tests. ...and don't worry, you will see the decision shortly. I have a nice Xmas 16mm I'm working on called Christmas Eves that has it in it. Example of motion blur in relation to distance Selection from 26 Roadkills 2014 by D.D.Teoli Jr.

OP...you can't have everything. Do as you like. You outlined the problems. Better have a 'plan B' so you don't end up homeless. (I think homeless is a bad word now. The powers that be want you to use 'houseless.' But I don't care. I don't adopt their language or rules.) Good luck! In the Shadow of City Hall L.A. 2015 by D.D.Teoli Jr. Shot through my rental car windshield while driving to the airport.

Here is the film... The Segregated Swimming Hole D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Just scanned a pig in a poke 16mm film I acquired a while back. Has a fantastic section on a segregated swimming hole. Here is a screenshot. It was faded Anscochrome, so I turned it B&W. You never know what is on these reels... just fascinating! This is from a 2K Retroscan.

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https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?166341-Masking-a-Ground-Glass-for-Cinema-Aspect-Ratios Interesting discussion from Large Format forum. I'd recommend artists tape. Leaves no residue. We use it for film work. Tested in freezing cold and 90 degree heat for a month. No residue.

Ever see one of these? From 1970.

Sure, happy to do so. Actually, the original scans are much, much higher. I usually scan at 600 to 800 dpi and reduced these scans about 80% in res. The slow internet here precludes uploading super high res. So, I try to strike a balance of decent res scans and occupying the internet here. You never know when your material may be the last extant copy of a thing. Don't sign your name to garbage res. Then again, I'm open content, so money is not an issue. If I sold stuff for money, I guess I send in crap res and watermark it. Open content you can do as you like. I'm trying to finish up with the Playboy VIP lot. Got about 8 more to do. Then hope to pull our film scanner and finish up year with some 16mm scans. It is a good way to end a year... vintage cine' film...my favorite!

Yes, they sometimes ask high $$ for all sort of crazy stuff.

I started to work with a curator-at-large in England that volunteers for my Archive. He buys items he wants scanned in the USA, has them shipped to me and I scan for him. Recently he picked up a lot of VIP Playboy Club magazines. I had forgot all about the Playboy Clubs and didn't know they even had a club magazine. Fascinating time capsule material. Internet Archive Search: VIP playboy club teoli Top right: Hefner and Barbi Benton 1972 I had a few people contact me in the past asking if they can help with the Archive. That is as far as things go. They flake out and never reply after I respond. It is good to get some new blood into the Archive for items I probably won't find / think of. I have a huge diversity of scope, but it can always be broadened. <><><><> Selection from Weekly World News Archive - DDTJRAC

They (eBay) wants $80 for 1600' of trash film for art projects or decorator use. For $80 you can buy oddball film on reels and get maybe 2000' - 3,000' or more.

I pack earplugs when going out. Good for subway, good for crazy movies, good for concerts. Protect your ears.

When making the transition from film to digital, maybe so. After I learned enough and had some doable gear, all that was left was dig in and get some work done. When you come to that point, it us wonderful. You are free to create and not worry about technique or gear syndrome. Sometimes if we have a project that does not interest that much, then maybe escapism will show up if we are forced to do it. Walking and exercise is good. But the amount of work I have precludes me from doing much of it. Work is always gnawing at me. I used to get walking in with my still photography. In early 2021 I injured my foot and that hurt the walking. I've been gradually trying to get back into it, but nothing like before due to the foot.

As I look at this on my tablet it has slightly more contrast than the monitor I used at the time. That is the problem with all these digital viewing devices. Laptops especially are prone to off color post work.

Here is the deal. If you are not working for a paying client...you only have to please yourself with your work. Sometimes we don't know we have gone too far, until we do. I used to do a lot of hyper-real HDR about 10 years ago. I learned it from Les Krims. But eventually grew out of it and now use invisible HDR if I want it. But maybe a film in hyper-real HDR would look interesting. Faces of Gentrification Photos: D.D.Teoli Jr.

Got timed out, but here is my choice for post. I've done lots of freaky post work in the past. But the subject matter must be of that nature. If you want her over saturated and that is how the film is, then go for it.