Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Can you use 2 pair of needle nose on each side and with the help of another person to unscrew? What about screwing an adapter ring onto it to extend it and use permanent Loctite on the threads. Let it harden and maybe you can unscrew it that way from the extension ring. They make pliers for expanding chain links for electrical lightning. You may see if you can find one of that style that fits from the inner ring to unscrew. It expands instead of compressing. Good luck!

Thanks Dan, didn't know they made ultrasonic cleaners for film. Some of this archival film is filthy, filthy. Even has bug cocoons on it. Edwal Film Cleaner is a fast drying cleaner. Looks like it would dry the film out. Fast drying cleaners don't do that great for hand cleaning. If you go over them with a slow drying film lubricant or cleaner it takes off more dirt. But Edwal is good for fast work as in 'better than nothing.'

Something you don't see much of nowadays...a VHS Videotape Duplicator from 1987. (Press Photo) Do you think they saved any for museums or were they mostly scrapped? What type of VCR's did they use in the duplicator bank? How big a bank they could make? .

Selection from Press Photography M.D. D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. https://archive.org/download/press-photo-womens-worker-lunch-hour-over-1942-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c-2/Press photo women's worker lunch hour over 1942 D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C (2).jpg Before Photoshop, opaque was used to drop out the background or for retouching. Opaque came in red, black or white. The paper image was marked up with some opaque notes and the final opaqueing was done on the litho film after the process camera shot the screened halftone before plate burning. Photograph: eBay and used under the auspices of Fair Use. Photographer: Unknown

I think the rubber fetish is more of a U.K. thing, but I may be wrong, so just guessing. VHS Rubberist 1988 Clip No. 1 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I don't understand the love for rubber. Looks uncomfortable to wear. But I don't judge...I just archive. As I wrote before, once prejudice enters the archival field you are not doing a good job. I have a small collection of rubberist material, but I've never seen them pump someone dressed in rubber up like a balloon before. Might be something interesting to work into your next movie.

I used to have a lot of desirable vintage still lenses. Some had near perfect circles for the aperture.

Press photo 1984 National Video If you got any decent photo/s of video stores or related ephemera you want to share with my VHS / Betamax Archive let me know. Scans are fine, 600 dpi minimum, 800 dpi preferred. Will be glad to give you credit for provenance. Or not, if you don't want to be associated with my Archive and are just interested in contributing to the historical record. Photos must be decent res and quality unless very rare subject matter. Surprisingly not many people took photos of the video stores in the early days and related ephemera. I'm also looking for early catalogs from Magnetic Video Corp. They were the first distributors of 'watch at home' videotapes. Will buy physical catalogs / ephemera or Hi Q 600 dpi - 800 dpi scans (Lower dpi is OK for donation.) Verso:

Were they more or less like VHS?

Sure, I'm happy to have found it to share with the group. If you don't want to scan them, ship to me and I will scan and send back to you. But run the content scope by me first. BUT...I cut the binding off and run through a sheetfed scanner. So a fraction is cut off on the bound edge. You can buy an Epson sheetfed scanner if you don't have one. You can easily scan tens of thousands of scans a year. Only problem with sheetfed scanners are lines. But you can reduce lines 90% with good prep work. See: NSFW SHOOTOUT…Flatbed Scanner vs. Sheetfed Scanner vs. Copy Stand Photography – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II (home.blog)

Ted Nelson's Junk Mail Cartons : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive Sift through it as it is a mix. But lots of good cine' stuff in the collection.

Kodak: How to Make Good Movies - 1946 244 pages / files including covers and endsheets. Kodak How To Make Good Movies 1946 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=Kodak+How+To+Make+Good+Movies+1946 The I.A. has a 1953 version in PDF. My 1946 copy are JPEGs. You must download to see them in sequential order. If someone wants to make a PDF of my scans go ahead, upload to I.A. and put your name on it for PDF and my name on it for scans. If PDF it is low res, only use your name on PDF.

Is that a cheap one Robert? If so, what does a state of the art model cost?

Excellent vintage photo and cine' reference. Wide range of items for photo and movie making. JPEG's as viewed at the I.A. are not in sequential order and must be downloaded to view in order. I've included 2 different links to find it as sometimes one link stops working if the I.A. is in a bad mood. Sears Camera & Photographic Catalog 1957 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=Sears Camera %26 Photographic Catalog 1957

I had submitted a proposal for this article to a contact I have at the Internet Archive. But they refused to publish it in their blog. I’m more or less slightly tolerated at the I.A., so I didn’t expect nor receive much consideration from them. At one point they banned me and removed tens of thousands of my uploads. Luckily I ran into ‘the contact’ who restored it all or the people in Frisco would do nothing for me. I tell you all this because you should not use the I.A. as a cloud for you one and only copy of the digital material you wish to preserve. Always have hard-copy backups. Luckily I have many other outlets for online expression and am not dependent on any one venue. And I don’t hold grudges, at least with my archival work I don’t. In fact if I hate someone or something…I archive them better! We all have prejudices of one sort or anther, but prejudice of any sort and archival preservation are not compatible. So if you have personal prejudices it is not a problem, just check them at the door with your archival work. Selection from Pop-up Advertising Archive D.D. Teoli Jr. A.C. Archival preservation is not a big deal a lot of the time. In fact, it is almost effortless in some cases. As an example, you are already on the computer or phone day and night, so if you see something interesting, shoot a screen shot of it and submit to the I.A.. That is how I started my pop-up advertising collection. We all hate pop-ups, but instead of being aggravated…I archive them! Fax spam offering $9.8 million dollars Faxes, SPAM emails & robocalls are easy to archive areas to work in. We all get them, so archive them. https://archive.org/details/we-will-take-legal-action-against-you-robocall And if you don’t have a screen recorder you can freeze web pages for future reference on the Wayback Machine, which is part of the Internet Archive. If you got something interesting in your family photos…archive it! This gal is not a family relation, but a found photo. So I put her in my ‘found photo family.’ Selection from Cateye’s Archive D.D. Teoli Jr. A.C. Driving down the street and see something you think needs to be preserved…archive it! In the Miracle Mile district in L.A. and surrounding neighborhoods we used to have tons of sculpted roofs…until one day we didn’t. This is one of the last sculpted roofs of L.A.. I noticed that too late. But in my defense, I moved out of L.A. back in 1989 and this photo was taken in 2012. I would visit CA periodically but spent most of my time in Santa Monica and Venice and not near the Miracle Mile where I grew up and where the mecca for sculpted roofs were located. Before I was an archivist, I was a social documentary photographer. With everyone having smart phones (except me) what is your excuse for not documenting and archiving a chunk of your world? His Perfect Woman 1974 Hollywood, CA Selection from Peering into the World of 1970’s Hollywood and L.A. 2012 artist’s book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. There is just so much possibilities to choose from you can never get bored with archival preservation. Selection from Radio and TV Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Miguel Covarrubias at Throckmorton Gallery, NYC Daniel .D. Teoli Jr. If you go to lectures, presentations, art gallery shows, shoot a little video, take some photos or make an audio recording. I mean, you are already there…so why not archive it? Gallery shows are gone in a few weeks, preserve them. Field recordings is another area that is easy to work in. Again, you are right there. Pull out your cell phone and record some audio of your world. (All I got is a $85 a year, non smart Tracfone from Walmart, so I use this.) I like these USB recorders for audio work. They charge and transfer audio via the retractable USB plug. Internet Photo: Fair Use https://archive.org/search.php?query=oral%20history%20nesta%20kerin%20crain Above is an oral history I made from Richard Bruce Morriale on Nesta Kerin Crain. She was one of the earliest gong and sound therapy practitioners in the USA as well as medium and occult devotee. Internet photo: Fair Use This is film collector Dennis R. Atkinson. I was after him for a couple of years to let me archive some of the extensive film history he had in his head. He always said NO. Well, he died a few months ago and all that history is gone. After he died I contacted his wife with hopes of archiving something…nothing, no reply. If you know someone that has some history within them that needs preserving…archive it with video, still photos and audio oral history. Then upload to the I.A.. If you have lots of friend, ask them to help you out as ‘curators at large.’ A gal wrote me the other day to ask about volunteering to work for my Archive. She was an art student at art college and sounded very enthusiastic. It was not practical for her to do physical work as she was out of state. But I was going to ask her is she wanted to be a ‘curator at large’ for me. Beside contributing found digital archival material to my Archive, she could have been on the lookout for found ‘shopping lists’ to add to that collection. But, being how things are in 2021…no reply from her. Selection from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Shopping List Archive https://archive.org/details/collection-scope-of-the-daniel-d.-teoli-jr.-archival-collection Here is an old ‘scope’ of my Archive. I have not had a chance to do a revised version. Still, it will give you an idea of areas of archival preservation I work in and give you some possibilities of areas or offshoot areas that may be of interest for you to work in. Good Luck! <><><><> 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

Rod Serling gave some good lectures on developing creatively in Season 5 DVD set of Twilight Zone in the special features section on the last discs of the series. Get it from your library.

I've been archiving eBay for some years. The eBay Archive contains over 30,000 screenshots and photos in it. My latest project was massive and archived the Adult Only Section before eBay shut it down on June 15, 2021. I spent 3-1/2 months on it gathering archival material then organizing it. I asked Reddit's 'Data Hoarders' if they would do it, but they removed the thread as soon as it was posted. So I was stuck doing it myself. I like to archive eBay in small chunks of a dozen or a hundred screenshots, not tens of thousands. One area I like to collect in is crazy & weird listings. You never know what the eBayer's will come up with. Odd shaped Cheeto's and potato chips are favorites, but just no telling what they will list. Surprise boxes of who knows what are another staple there. Do you think they glued this one together? Or did they cut / form these shapes? I wonder if they ever sell any of these? Here is some of the eBay oddball collection if they interest you further. eBay Crazy & Weird Auctions D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

How was the Quad tape compared to state of the art VHS? quad video tape - Google Search What type of tape is used now for TV production?

The amateurs' used these type of title makers. How did the old time Hollywood productions make their titles? Letters were made out of plaster and had pins embedded in the back. They came with a backer board for holding the title design. They came with a wooden rule to keep the design straight. They even made pocket size titlers. All the letters and numbers revolved on a wheel. Photos: eBay Used under auspices of Fair Use.

That was a photogs question on a Reddit Photography thread. Here is my take on it... OP...maybe a little. Genius is something you are born with, generally speaking. Although sometimes a thing clicks in the mind and you are ready to go. That is what happened to me after working on infrared flash for 4+ years. Something clicked. But I could have easily given up after 4 years of failure. The genius produces outstanding work with little or no effort, whereas the non-genius may struggle to produce something mediocre. If we could all be geniuses at what we aspire to be going to class or cracking a book open...we would. In the 70's I had a friend that went to Art Center College in L.A. He studied photography. I used to go to class sometimes with him to sit in on classes. I could not afford to go there, so that was as close as I got to Art Center. Anyway, I noticed in the critique sessions for weekly assignments the same students would produce more or less outstanding photos on each assignment. Some would produce OK photos and maybe a great one once in a while and some would produce low end stuff as their general output. Later on with my work as an Art Director I noticed this with artists I would hire or do portfolio reviews on. Some had good technical abilities, but poor creativity. Others had creativity but poor technique. Others had both technique and creativity, but were flakes. Back in the 80's I met a gal in her 40's that retired from business and wanted to be an artist. She was well off selling her business for millions and lived in a mini-mansion in San Marino, CA. She said she had taken some art classes and showed me her portfolio. The draftsmanship was poor and creativity was poor. And her prices to do jobs were very high. Her background as a successful business owner tainted her realistic conception of what is paid for art jobs. Her work smacked of someone with little art talent that struggled to put it down on paper or canvas. It wasn't in her, she had little talent and classes did not do much for her apparently. Now someone with natural talent bangs it out with little or no effort whereas she struggled just to produce sub-par work. In my own case I tried to learn some creativity with book cover design. I produce lots of artist's books. Designing the cover has always been hard for me. I am not a creative person in that area. I bought a number of books on cover design. I studied and studied them over and over again. The best I could do with my creativity for cover design would be to try and copy off of covers I liked in the book. It wasn't in me. When I first started with photography in 1969 / 1970 I wanted to be a fashion / studio photographer. After a few years it sunk in I had no talent for that type of work. Eventually I found what I do have talent in and work in that area. We all have different abilities, so why not make the most of the talents you got? Sure, study all you like but if it is not you, don't waste your life on trying to be something you can't naturally be great at. Do what you are great at. Selection from Weekly World News Front Page Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection

Cleaning film has always been a pain in the ass. Hate it. Are cleaning machines an affordable option for the small operator or are they high priced? What type of film cleaning machines do commercial scanning companies use? How good are cleaning machines compared to hand cleaning?

I've always been interested in what people buy. Found shopping lists is part of the collection scope of my Archive. Sometimes the people have work plans and sketches on the lists and are really detailed. Some have budgets and notes. I feel bad for some of the more detailed note projects and how they lost their plans. Probably some would be shocked to see their trash on the internet. A gal wrote me the other day to ask about volunteering to work in the Archive. She was an art student at art college and sounded very enthusiastic. It was not practical for her to do physical work as she was out of state. But I was going to ask her is she wanted to be a 'curator at large' for me. Beside contributing found digital archival material to my Archive, she could have been on the lookout for found shopping lists to add to the collection. But, being how things are in 2021...no reply from her.

Can't say about hoarder. To the normal person, yes, that is what it looks like. To film collectors it is the norm more or less unless they got tons of $$ and have climate controlled film vaults and film archivists to keep things tidy. Some are more organized than others. But big film collections are a mess many a time. This is a pretty neat collection. But it is small. A more sprawling bigger collection with 35mm reels. All photos from internet and used under auspices of Fair Use.

Nice!

RPPC Circus clowns - early 20th century I seldom mark up my own photography. When I first made the transition from film to digital around 2010, I did. But I outgrew it after a few months. My photography is pretty unique, especially my specialties of infrared flash photography and circular fisheye street photography. It would be easy for someone to find the author of my photos with a simple Google image search, so I'm not that concerned. Maybe if I was looking for business I would mark it up. But any on the branding I put on the photos is not to discourage use, it is just for a notice of origination. Photogs would watermark stuff way back in the day, so it is nothing new. Solomon D. Butcher marked up a lot of his glass plates, and that was back in the 1800's. The photographers to the entertainers also marked photos up heavily. Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection / Ruth Wallace Collection Ruth was famous for singing The Dingy song. Now with my archival work I started to heavily watermark or as I prefer to say 'brand' it starting about 2019 / 2020. In 2019 Tumblr deleted all 48 of my websites or blogs or whatever you call them. It took over 4 years to make all those Tumblr's. In 2020, the Internet Archive deleted my entire account which was composed of 6 years work and 70,000 - 120,000 uploads. (I never counted them.) Prior to 2019, LinkedIn banned me and I lost a couple thousand contacts and thousands of posts. So after that I was in a bad mood. At one time I had the largest online presence of any still photographer in the world. It occurred to me if WordPress canned my ass I would go from a still photographer having the largest online content to one with a nil content...and no one would even have known my Archive had existed. So after that I said, **(obscenity removed)** it, I will start branding my material to at least make it known there once was an Archive by that name. And beside that, branding it advertises my free open content Archive to those that may need the material. That is one of the reasons for giving citations when you use material from another person or institutions. So people can find the source if they need to. But citations or not, I liked the pre-watermark days better. It was less work. I give away for free some very $$ items. Take this RPPC. It cost me $85 to donate Violetta to the I.A. This was pre-branding days, so I'm not going back to mark it. There is never any thanks for the work. Now, I'm not in it for the thanks, but you'd figure the people that run these sites that ban me would take a look at the offending item and 'cancel it' instead of 'canceling all' of the collection. But nope, that is how it is in 2021. One thing about watermarks. Be classy about it. A simple and small or decorative watermark does the job.

Jens Haaning, Take the Money And Run (2021) (Courtesy the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art) Artist Jens Haaning claimed that the stunt was in reaction to the low fees offered to him by the museum. Full story... https://hyperallergic.com/680326/jens-haaning-runs-away-with-museums-cash-and-calls-it-art