Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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?

I'm not into HAM radio. I thought about getting into it for emergency commination in a SHTF scenario. But only unlicensed. I'm underground and not much of a license person. Of course, I'm not underground in everything I do, just some things. A big reason I never got into HAM is; it is not conducive to being able to use it by just picking it up to use with no training. It takes some dedication and $$ to be a HAM. Another reason I didn't get into HAM was, in WW2 the gov jammed / outlawed HAM radio due to national security. So, no doubt in a SHTF world, TPTB would shut down all Wi-Fi, cell phones and probably ham radio as well. And to put all that time and $$ into something that would be outlawed is not worth my time or budget. Still, I can have an interest in HAM, radio and early TV without actually being into it. QSL postcards were an early area of interest for me, as they were postcard related, which is a big area of collection for my Archive. In fact, that is how I found out about them...via postcard collecting. The HAM radio operators would send QSL postcards back and forth after they talked on air with each other. Here is the scoop... QSL card - Wikipedia Looks like fun, but I'm not one for chewing the fat much. Too much GD work! Here are a couple from the risqué QSL collection... Here are a couple from the non-risqué collection... Pimpin takes $$ and looks like Rev. Jones has a nice stack on hand... Yes, radio was the big deal back in the day. Too bad my dad or a relative was not into it. I could have picked it up by osmosis! I have a huge audio archive of old radio shows as well as related paper / ephemera. Fascinating time capsule stuff. Although, I still like film best! <><><><> 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

My title should have been... Wet gate scanning came from optical printers. As in, optical printers invented or used the process before scanners did.

Do something in post. Never used filters, they really block the light. At least for 850nm BW. I use a converted camera. You can convert a cheap camera, you don't have to spend a fortune. Post a still or clip of what you are after. Words only go so far. If you want those freaky IR colors , they do it by channel swapping in post...or some such thing.

I saw a trailer of a war movie from 2008. Think it was called Defiance. Very blue scenes in the woods. But you saw no whites of the eyes. Don't know how it was in the movie, but that was how the trailer was. And it worked fine, even though very blue.

Thanks Robert. So what is wrong with FF's scanner? Is the optical reader designed wrong?

That is what I mean. Either audio is right or not. They can make a $100 cassette machine play right, or at least they used to. Why not a machine for $45k? Have you talked to FF about it?

Nice photos! My only suggestion is try for more sharpness. Nice otherwise. You may get more action for a job if you advertise at home or at film / art schools. Too bad Sony didn't make their silent shutter work with flash. That was the drawback with infrared flash photography. I could have had a silent camera with invisible flash. Then all you need is skill and boom! But a 'normal person' does not want their flash to work in silent mode....but, I'm not normal! Another interesting project is to get inside artist's studios and document their work / lives. One night I was wondering around and met a guy named Steezus Khrist. (Or some such name.) He was in interesting kid. Said he likes to graffiti railroad cars. I talked with him for about 10 minutes, trying to set up a shoot date. For the full 10 minutes he circled me talking and would not stand still. I offered to do some shooting of his life, but never heard from him. Same deal with a cutter gal I met named 'Buffalo.' Nothing. I also tried to do something with a 'picked face' crack whore for some shooting at her home...Nothing. She just couldn't understand what I wanted. People don't come through nowadays. They already are self-sufficient with their cell phone cams and their $29 inkjet printer from Walmart. Or they are too drugged up. Plus, I'm old. young people like young people...unless they want something from you. Does not matter. I can shoot as much as I like on the street. (Or used to until I hurt my foot.) Good luck in finding some jobs / projects. A photog needs to shoot! If you have downtime and nothing to shoot...shoot your TV! The Godzilla – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection (wordpress.com) Great exercise for on-the-fly comp and timing. Good luck!

No, have not. Does B&H sell them? If so, buy one and give it a try. Then write a report at your blog on it. If dissatisfied...send it back for a refund. Testing is better than words.

Stop screwing around with this stuff. Post it at the I.A.

Is FilmFabriek aware that their sound scanner has audio problems? Are they working to fix it? (Based on discussion at this forum.)

Well, as long as you found something workable that is great. I am happy for you. I know a tremendous amount of work can go into a film. And to have it look bad because of the color is a heartbreaker. One clarification... When I wrote: 'You can do 10 different grades in 10 minutes.' I meant experimental grades of a scene or still, not the entire film. You just keep experimenting until you can refine it to your liking. Then you work on zeroing it in. One other note... You should look at your grade on its intended viewing medium...TV, Movie Screen, YouTube / phone, whatever. Each may need their own grade. If it is too much with the dedicated grading, just split the difference. That is what I do or you can go crazy.

This is not minor. Blue eyes look bad and you have to figure out a solution. As well as learn from the experience so you wont be wasting time on this issue again.

What a mess! What was your interest in exploring it? Broke bohemian looking for salvage furniture? Bored / General interest? Decay enthusiast? Or??

Too bad everyone is not like you Duncan with their scans...

Something from yesterday's office... I've got a small collection of Tru-Vue films in the Archive. eBay photo: Fair use Within the collection, which is mostly vintage burlesque, there is a series of shots from a 'behind the scenes on a movie set' roll. Looks like the sets are about 1939-40, although did not look at them all, as I don't have the Tru-Vue stereo viewer. As you can see in the photo above, the film is wound super tight. It is very hard to deal with for scanning. I tried storing the film in a reverse wind for a few days and while it did relax the film some, it still is very tightly wound. All the Tru-Vue films I've seen are the same tinted color. The film has to be scanned at an angle on the scanner or you get a error message if the film extends beyond the top and bottom of the frame. So you can only get in a few frames at a time. And with stereo, every 3rd frame is a dupe. I will have to buy a film holder that the kids use for camera scanning film with a camera. You shove the film through it, and it holds the film flat. (Hopefully it holds this heavily curved film half-ass flat.) The you take a photo of the film in the film holder over a lightbox. Even when taped on the scanner glass, the film buckles and is not flat. I got some anti-Newton ring glass somewhere; I could tape that over the film. But it introduces more dust and it is in storage and who knows where it is. There are a lot of nice scenes from the movie set on the roll.

Very interesting. Thanks for the exploration rundown Charles! I never had any idea about the gambling den. Did you take any photos? Decay photography is a big deal nowadays. They have a Facebook group on it. I had heard that from a piece on the Sunday Morning show they had about an abandoned house photographer. The guy they showcased used Google satellite view or some such thing to find them. He looked for decayed roofs. You sound like a prime candidate for decay photography. Maybe something to look into if you are not already in it...and you got any spare time. I was never into decay photography, but I remember seeing it from my early photo forum days. It is a good social documentary record of things. The closest I may get to decay photography is some rodent damage photos. ...or some rusty reels / cans in the cine' reel and can archive.

Back in the day, 1970's / 1980's, when living in L.A., I used to go to Chinatown a lot. Beside the movies, I liked the steamed buns. The chicken store would have chickens in the cage. You pick the one you want They slit the throat and threw the chicken flapping in a trash can to bleed out. Then they plucked it and processed it for you to go. A few years later, they hid the process from you and did it in the back room. More year's pass, and you saw no live birds in the store. You bought the processed and packaged birds just like in the supermarket. The Chinese theaters had the real kung fu movies. One such theater was up some side street, don't remember its name. It was a little hole in the wall, but they had great Chinese / Hong Kong kung fu films. Here is a clip from a cute kung fu comedy film they made in 1994. Clip from Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Well, that is how it goes Dom. Lots of people get email replies from Lasergraphics. Me? Nothing from Lasergraphics, even after many years of trying. Some people have more luck with things Dom. And in the big picture, if something does not work out...I've got hundreds and hundreds of other areas to work in. And sooner or later some luck appears, and things do work out in another area Dom. As long as you don't get attached to one thing, one position, one view (Perry) you can be flexible in your mindset Dom. Now, Dom, what does bother me, some, is never getting one reply from nearly a hundred email solicitations I sent around the USA over 5 years to sell me a gallon of the person's tap water. I do lots of water tests Dom and I wasn't able to hit every city in America that I wanted to test. nsfw Distilling water is a quick acid test you can do to find out what residue is in your water. – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (wordpress.com) So, I would write to people around the USA that should have had an interest in their tap water; such as newspapers, bloggers, water conservationists, etc, to sell me a gallon of water. Some of them were even people I've done business with. I told them I would pay the shipping, buy them the 4-liter bottles and give them the results of their tap water and pay them $22-$25 for their trouble of filling the bottles at their sink and bringing the box to the post office. Nothing. Never one reply Dom. And it was not only emails. I would advertise on forums to buy water...Nothing. People are pretty **(obscenity removed)**ed nowadays Dom. They have no courtesy. I'd have more respect for them if they would write back with a short email saying to **(obscenity removed)** off. But it is too much work to hit the reply button I guess. It is kinda sad that I have to work in the social documentary areas I do work in Dom; as a photographer, filmmaker, audio archivist, cine' archivist, etc. I run the People's Archive. No $$ in it, is all open content. Once $$ comes into play Dom, you only do things for profit. If no $$, you won't do it. I do it for love, the only time $$ is thought of is when I ask the question of; do I have enough $$ to do a project? And it is not like I'm some selfless person. It is just what is necessary to do the work I do in the quality and quantity I do it in. Believe me Dom, I'd love it if it produced vast riches for me, I've got nothing against $$. If I had a choice Dom, I'd do something else. But as Weegee had said...it is in our blood. We got no other choice Dom. And the sad part Dom, is not the work, which I love. The sad part is people don't answer emails or show the slightest interest in contributing time to the Archive. And I'm not looking for volunteers to do the work. Beside water tests, I've written to many people asking for interviews, letting me record oral or video history for the Archive, record photography, things like that Dom. Basically no interest from any of them Dom. Then they die and the history is lost forever. As far as Spam? I read my spam...all of it. I archive my spam...I don't trash it Dom. (Now, I don't archive 100% of the spam. Too much dupe spam. So, I archive the notable ones.) Internet Archive Search: spam DDTJRAC ...or I may archive groups of spam once in a while. It is easy to trash stuff that may be important to the historical record someday Dom. That was what I was trying to get across to Perry who wanted to trash a collogues academic paper on scanners that he thought was not up to snuff. We don't need to destroy history; we need to preserve it. Especially in this day and age Dom. Now, in Perry's defense, I didn't always archive spam. One day something clicked and...BOOM! I've trashed thousands of spams over the decades. So, maybe something will click in Perry someday? All you can do is plant seeds. It is not our job to make them sprout. Same with the work Dom, you just send out the emails, RPPC's, etc. If some sprout fine and if not, you suck it up and move on.

That is OK, we don't have time to keep updating posts. I just put the post card in here to give some extra info. I got a huge Archive of photos, ephemera etc. So, I like to put it to use if possible. If no one sees them, the material is not of much use. The postcard is from eBay. I don't have any of the saltwater pools in the Archive. I've been closing down the Archive as far as new acquisitions. I started last week once it sunk in cine' film is just too hard to deal with for scans. The paper material? I got enough for many lifetimes, so not adding more fuel to the fire. Plus, there is the money and space problems coupled with the recent inflation. I found out about the Plunge on the special features on The Camerman. They also had a great special feature on old crank cameras...The Motion Picture Camera. I was looking for a copy of the film on crank cameras on VHS to break some clips out of. (The Motion picture camera : early cinemachinery from the Malkames Collection.) It was supposedly released on VHS. But it is very, very rare. WorldCat does not even have one copy listed. The Motion picture camera : early cinemachinery from the Malkames Collection (VHS tape, 1979) [WorldCat.org] The copy of that film on Criterion DVD had lots of post work. So I didn't want to cut up their stuff. I do try to be a little considerate, but as an archivist, we are always dealing with stuff that was made by someone else and had / has a copyright. Plus, the collection where the film emanated from is still going. So, it is a balancing act. And in this case, that material did not seem to come under my purview of worries about preservation. The Malkames Collection (malkamescameracollection.com) You film camera guys / gals would go crazy for The Motion Picture Camera film on the crank cameras. It also goes beyond the crank cams, into the early age of studio cine' cams. Just that one film is worth double of the cost of DVD in my opinion. The Motion Picture Camera (1979), a documentary by A.S.C. cinematographer and film preservationist Karl Malkames, in a 4k restoration The Cameraman (1928) | The Criterion Collection I had heard you can cut up songs for 30 second fair use samples /discussion if they are copyrighted, but don't know if that is true. And even if true, I don't know if that would extend to 30 second fair use clips for movies. If it is true, then I would not be so considerate and would cut up some clips. I generally stick with what is allowed by law over endless debates on consideration. It is always a battle between the 'greater right or the greater good' being an archivist. You lurkers...get The Camerman...great film. ...and watch the specials, many more interesting things on it. Internet Photo - Buster Keaton - The Camerman 1928

I thought the scanning companies invented it, but it is old school.

I had written this company to ask if they sold or had any paper ephemera related to the vintage cine' cameras that I could acquire or scan for them to donate to the I.A. NO reply. Really sad how things are nowadays with correspondence in an era where correspondence has never been easier.