Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

No, nothing like the old Kodak in its heyday. A shadow of its former self Robert. I started using Kodak from the late 1960s. Their graphic arts division is pretty much gone and dye transfer division is extinct, Robert...just to name a few. And their graphic arts division was huge!

I'm surprised Kodak sells much of anything nowadays. They have really gone to hell, at least with their film products and chemicals.

Thanks Dan! That is something about Moviestuff. Too bad as it filled a niche for the broke film scanner. It sounds like the scanning companies are making the scanners dummied down and not much control then. I've only used the Retroscan.

You should just do the tests...to show. That is your biz! Breastfeed the info to them. Your website does a pretty good job at it already...but go the distance, Robert! Cine' / photo deals in images, not in words or charts.

Beautiful!

18th Century Life In Williamsburg, VA (1944) Clip D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Clip is from a stupendous time capsule film. Footage takes you on a morning routine of a typical family that owned some slaves. Also gives you a glimpse of the various outbuildings for smoking, spring or dairy house etc. ...and Google how nasty the wigs were that the men and women wore. Full of bugs and lice! <><><><> 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. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

$1 - $2 a reel sometimes for 'pig in a poke' collections...but 8mm quality is generally too low for me. If you have the time, you can throw the dice. And you can always put back up for sale and get most of your money back. But it all takes time! This would be good if you have some lackies working for you and could sift through thousands of reels. But they may not have the 'eye' you need to find the gems. Just depends.

A while back there was a member on the forum in NYC that complained their movie career was not evolving as fast as they had hoped. I can't remember all the details, but my feelings on that would be...if you can afford to live in NYC, even just, you are a success! Recently photographer Elliott Erwitt's NYC Central Park's residence came up for sale after he passed away. I seldom study NYC real estate prices. I could never even afford the co-op's maintenance fees, let alone the sales price. So, I was kinda shocked it was so high and it sold so fast. It is a whole different world in NYC. Erwitt had a little studio downstairs as well. Between the 2 co-ops, the monthly maintenance fee was just under $20,000 a month. Here are some of Erwitt's photos... <><><><> 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. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

I was watching the movie Downfall (2004) about Hitler's last days in his bunker. It is an outstanding movie on the subject. They had some German 'tank killer' kids using panzerfaust anti-tank weapons to take out Russian tanks. I had never heard of them, so I looked them up. Whenever I want to learn about a thing, I study it in pictures. I'm not much of a reader. I will do a little reading after I see the photos, but generally I like the photos. The amount of armor the panzerfaust penetrates is amazing. The cone shape design concentrated the explosive charge. The panzerfaust was the model for all future RPG's. Panzefaust means 'armor fist' or 'tank fist.' Here are 111 pages of them if you have an interest... A Survey of Panzerfaust German Anti-Tank Weapons D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> 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. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Back in the day, people would always ask if photography was an art. If there are judgments to be made and the outcome is uncertain...there is art in the process. This art can be of a creative nature or a technical nature, but either way, there is art involved.

Yes, that is why I've said the scanner companies should make videos showing how to operate their machines and the range of the scanner's abilities. Even offer standardized film with it to scan and compare to their scans. But this seems to be too much to ask for in the breastfeeding dept in this day and age.

Looks like academics designed it. Academics like big words. Not being an academic or intellectual I just look at the pictures...or in this case the scanning output. Have you seen any output from their scanner Robert?

Sorry, forum closed me down for too many likes today...but thanks! That is pretty impressive.

Amazing what people come up with.

I guess you are pretty safe with Lasergraphics. But if your scan company goes out of biz and you need the PTR rollers, you will be dead in the water.

That is terrible! How long did you use it, Perry? If that was the case, overnight scans and all, I can see why scans would cost so much.

Sound great! Just too bad you need to raise $$. It is always nice when you can just concentrate on a project and not worry about $. You are lucky to be able to work in an area you like and are interested in. It would be terrible to work on projects you hate and just do for $$. GD...even though I've always been a documentary photographer of people; if I could go back in time, there is nothing I'd find more fascinating than shooting the old trains! O. Winston Link is one of my idols! Last time you did your train film you said you had some problem with dirty lenses or some such thing. Images may have been a little sleepy. Whatever, use good glass! We never know when our documentary work will be the last surviving testament to the subject matter. O. Wintson Link - Fair Use

Can't say Perry, as my sheet fed scanner rollers seem to be rubber. But I've used alcohol to clean them many hundreds of times over a 5-year period. They are still good. But they do wear from use after 100K+ scans. I guess time will tell for the PTR alcohol cleaned rollers. Your goo rollers sound like my silicone watch band. I had one of those solar watches and put it in the window to keep charged. I didn't use it for a while and when I grabbed it many months later the band was a sticky mess and had to be trashed. Looks like a lot of extra work go into your scans Perry, with cleaning rollers. So, it is not just running films through the scanner as fast as you can load them.

Wow, business must be booming for them! Didn't you start out with Retroscan Dan?

Thanks, Dan! I use alcohol wipes to clean my sheet fed paper scanner rollers. But they are not PTR as far as I know. They get dirty slowly over time. Or they get dirty very fast if you scan matte black ink as opposed to coated gloss stock. If on a scanning marathon, I may go through a box of 200 wipes in a couple of weeks. So, something you want to consider if you are not using alcohol wipes. Very convenient. I also use them for lens cleaning with Kimwipes.

DDTJRAC I got a few old photo albums in the Archive. You find some interesting things in them. But you need space to store albums and some $. While they are not overly expensive, interesting ones can go for a few hundred dollars each. Here is a photo from one of the European photo albums. Yearbooks are another interesting area of collection. Since there are so many yearbooks, I tried to concentrate most of my yearbook collection scope to women's colleges. This idea came about as an offshoot of my collections on flappers and bobbysoxers. Many of the yearbooks have collage pages and I made a separate collection just of the yearbook collages. Smith College 1949 Bryn Mawr 1939 Bryn Mawr 1960 - sometimes the girls would do some pre-Photoshop trick photography. <><><><> 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. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Thanks David! I will label it as anamorphic lens breathing. Do you have any clips of anamorphic mumps? Or can you suggest any content where I look for such a clip?

Health is an important concern. If you can, run a hi powered fan / ventilator between takes to pump in fresh air. I wonder if they have an air quality meter to measure air pollution like they have for CO2? Good luck!

Memes are one of those things I'd always see online, but I never thought about archiving...until one day I did. Can't remember when I started to archive them, maybe 5 years ago. But once I started to collect them, I went back in time to find earlier ones to make up for lost time. I notice today the memes collection hit 20,971 files. Plus, I have close to 2,000 GIF files I keep separately from the memes. In the beginning I just mixed memes and GIF together. Memes take a lot of time to fool with. In the beginning I would just save any I ran across. But as I got more serious about archiving them, I spent time searching out memes. Some of the collection are just photos that are used as memes...no text needed to get a message across. Lots of creativity out there... Memes are a good record or daily of life at the time they are made. They emanate from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive. I used to be on Reddit, but they banned me. One of the subreddits was for archivists. A person on the forum asked if anyone collected memes. A professional archivist said that archivists usually look after collections decades after they are made...by someone else. In other words, they are hired to 'caretake' and not create. I guess it is the curator's job to create a collection, as well as caretake. No one in the group seemed to collect memes other than me. Vast majority of the meme collection are of a political nature. Since they don't like politics here, I have posted non-political memes. But probably 99.5% of the collection are political memes. I guess it is better that the political parties battle with memes instead of guns. <><><><> 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. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

I'd go for the middle one.