Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Thanks for all the help! I've only got got 16mm and 35mm splicing blocks. Spicing VHS is pretty complex. With the rarity of good VHS decks I wonder if the risk is worth it? Maybe what I'll do is just make the two halves of tape into two separate tapes. I've got lots of old VHS I can take apart.

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Just picked one up at Amazon. Got the smaller 50 pounds per shelf model. Would have liked to get the 100 pounds per shelf model, but it is much bigger and more $$. Being on a space and $$ diet, I got the cheaper and smaller weight rated model. I don't really have big loads to put on it anyway. I'm using it for audio visual work as a copy setup for digitizing VHS / Betamax to a DVD recorder. Still, it is nice having more weight capacity if it is ever needed. I don't plan to use this lightweight cart for setting up my Revox B77 for temp jobs. I go through transcribing marathons with the VHS / Betamax Archive. Once they are done being transcribed to DVD I can stow the setup until the next marathon. Or if I need the odd tape transcribed it is not a big deal setting it up. Just unfold the cart then plug and play. I'm not new to folding carts. I had 2 very expensive stainless steel Vollrath folding catering carts back in the '90's. Loved em, especially for temp work. They were very heavy and if you were not careful unfolding the Vollrath and got your finger pinched in it...you would never forget it again! I sold both off when I moved and needed some money and had less space. I picked them up used at a public auction. I wish I had kept them, they don't even make them any more. The non-folding SS Vollrath carts are about $900 now. The folding carts would probably be near $1050-$1100 each. Vollrath used to be the king in USA made stainless steel commercial cooking equipment. But who knows now, maybe it is all made in China? Vollrath SS Cart

No, I did not scan. I took it off a DVD...under auspices of 'fair use.' And maybe it is public domain...don't know? Clip is from Last of the Giants Full film: I am looking for the 16mm film to buy, so I can scan it. But train films go for lots of $$ sometimes. The train nuts gobble them up on eBay. I had to do lots of color grading on the clip. It was heavy magenta, especially in the whites. and saturation was too heavy in flesh tones. Some of the color shift may be due to copying and copying and copying! I have another train film I was going to put up. Flight of the Century. But I generally don't like to rip entire shorts off DVD unless I know it is public domain. That is why I use clips a lot of the time...for fair use discussion.

There is no rule book to art OP. You do what works best and if you can't do that, you do what is 2nd best. Some gal wrote me once asking what exposure should she use for infrared flash. How would I know? I wrote her back and told her to test. That is what I will tell you OP. Test the alpha and the omega and don't forget the in between. They you can see what works best for your project. And you can always fall back on the old adage...rules are meant to be broken. That is how 'Godfather lighting' came about. Good luck!

Fascinating how they changed tires with the ring of fire. Short clip, well worth watching. Changing Tires On ' Big Boy' Steam Locomotive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Normally I use Verbatim Japan BD-R's, but last year I decided to try some of the cheaper Taiwan BD-R discs to save money on some of this temporary work that ends up as trash in short order. Here are the archival test results for various BD-R's. https://daniel-d-teoli-jr-archival-collection-ii.home.blog/2021/09/06/blu-ray-discs-they-are-not-all-the-same/

I got some reel to reel audio splice tape. Is that OK? If not what should I use? I got a broken tape in the Archive that needs a splice. Thanks

Photos: Internet Archive The overhead glass comes down and presses the book flat, but on an angle and not a 180. Then it take 2 photos...one of each page. I have been working as an informal volunteer for the I.A. for 7 + years. Over that time I've donated over a hundred thousand items to their collection. Some of it very rare. I had asked them if they could help buy me a cheap cine’ sound film scanner. I have about a million feet of film on roughly 1,100 reels that need scanning. The Internet Archive could also get the digital output donated from it. They would not give me a penny towards buying a scanner…actually they pester me all the time to give them money. Since I finished the eBay Adult Only Archive project I've got back into flat bed scanning. (The eBay project ended up as 28,000+ screen shots and photos.) In a few weeks I will be bored with flat bed scanning and will get out my Retroscan cine' scanner. I got a fantastic 16mm sound film from the late 40's / early 50's called 'One Enchanted Evening' to scan. It will make a good project for the AEO Light optical sound extracting software. As of yet I've only tested AEO Light but have not done any films with it. I will have to go the distance with AEO Light and 'One Enchanted Evening' will be a good film to do it with for my AEO Light debut. If it works out I will send in a copy for your perusal. But it won't fly on YouTube and scared to try with Vimeo. Surprisingly Vimeo had taken a super rare hardcore 1920s film called the 3 Graces I submitted. But they banned me a few weeks after I sent it in. I complained and they reinstated the film and my account. But all the links I used for my account were dead after that and had to be redone. So it is not worth the hassle with them.

OP, can't say from first hand experience. My experience is, only from watching behind the scenes footage on DVD and from a few short 20 minute experiences at the Santa Monica Pier, underground at the NYC Subway, the Oculus in NYC and Vegas. They were shooting a film / commercials at these locals. I stood there for 20-25 minutes at each, waiting to take some photos and in ALL cases nothing went on except a few workers walking back and forth. I saw no stars, nothing. Now, 20-25 minutes of standing around is the upper end of my ADD brain limits. So that type of work doesn't mesh well with my brain. Vegas was worse. It was not a cine shoot, it was a commercial still photo shoot. They had the street closed down with police on both ends and a shiny new car seemed to be the subject. A photog had his tethered laptop and medium format still cam on his tripod, lighting, assistants and and all that. I arrived at maybe 7.30PM to 8PM. I stood there for my time limit...nothing. So I walked around to do my own photography. When I left maybe 11.30PM...he was still there, street blocked off, everything was in the place it had been when I left and it looked like nothing had happened....anal. For cine work you need to be very anal...as in analytical. You have to be of that disposition naturally. It is hard to force it and be good. If that is your nature, and you got the fitness, the time needed to work around the clock does not matter to you. I'd say if you are not of that nature and like to work around filmmaking, find a job in an area where your hours are more limited to normal working hours. I mean, when you do all the setup to get a shot, you gotta stick with it. If it takes triple the time you thought... that is what it takes. You may need special natural light, you may have to wait for the rain to stop, whatever. So it goes with the territory. But if you are in a studio / office setting, doing doc work, grading etc. You can probably shut things down for the night and start back up in the A.M. where you left off. Unless of course, Hollywood is up your butt to get it done now!

Thanks again for all the help! I posted the same question at a photo forum. I got a lot of replies, but mostly just off the cuff guesses. This was the best detailed answer... royfisher: 1949-1952 is my best guess, possibly to 1954 or slightly later depending on inventory turnover. In the second image: a) On the back wall there's a Brownie Hawkeye poster. The Hawkeye was introduced in 1949 (discontinued in 1961). b) There's a hanging shop fixture for Verichrome film, which was discontinued in 1956 (replaced by Verichrome Pan). In the first image: a) Kodak Slides booklet: I have a copy of the fourth edition. The cover photo is the same, but the version shown in the photo has many (unreadable) words beneath the title; mine just says "Fourth Edition". The fourth edition copyright is 1952, mine is the 1953 printing. Earlier copyrights are listed from 1941 through 1949. The typeface is different, too. The booklet shown in the photo has a 1940s deco-style typeface, while my copy has a condensed Scotch-like serif. b) Kodak Lenses booklet: The cover illustration shown in the photo is completely different from the one I have, and appears to feature a Medalist, which was discontinued ca. 1953. My copy of the Lenses booklet is the fifth edition, copyright 1955; earlier copyright dates range from 1942 to 1952. The fifth edition has a generic sans typeface instead of the deco style shown in the photo ------------------------ So my initial timeline of '48-'52 seems fair from polling both forums. I don't need to be exact, just a rough estimate. You know now people are nowadays if you screw up, better to have some leeway and 'estimate.'

So do you think a range of 1948 to 1952 is fair?

https://archive.org/download/camera-store-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.-2/Camera Store D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. (1).jpg https://archive.org/download/camera-store-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.-2/Camera Store D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. (2).jpg 2 views of the same store. Thanks!

Forgot to mention something... If you work in 8mm you will probably need a 15X loupe as a min with a 22X loupe being ideal.

They are a for profit company. But their article gives some good pointers on raising $$. (I guess so you can hire them to do your digitizing?) How To Fund A Digital Preservation Project | Make Your Project A Reality (bmiimaging.com) I have been working on finding sponsorship for my cine' digitizing efforts. (buying a film scanner.) I can tell you one thing from my limited experience at it. Rich people do a good job being undercover, not with their online presence, but with their contact info. I'm also working on contacting major digital archives (Universities) to see if they can help. From past experience with them, which is substantial, my archival work is too oddball for them, plus it is probably outside of their limited worldview. They just can't wrap their head around what I do. Numerous times I've been turned down for donating material to institutions cause they say my material is online already. Yes, true it is online. But they get hi-res material, not low res online material. Plus searching on a Blu-ray disc or computer files is world of difference compared to searching on the slow Internet Archive. And this does not even take into account when the Internet Archive banned me and deleted my account. Yes, lots of my stuff has been online, but it was taken down and trashed. So being online means nothing in archival terms. Anyway, I just work down contact list from A-Z. I work blind, as I've told you to do. I don't expect anything, as expectations are pre-panned resentments. And if nothing else, I get my name out there a little bit more. But one thing is for sure. Good chance if I don't try, nothing will come about. If you are working on big money for your film projects, here is another interesting site. It shows how the rich people are connected in various ways. To get all the scoop, you got to pay. But they still give you a bunch of info for free. In this example I was looking for Eileen A. Aptman and her hubby. They both funded the Lowell and Eileen Aptman Digital Preservation Fund at Duke. So that is a plus, if the person has an interest in digital preservation to start with. Eileen A. Aptman, Chief Investment Officer at Belfer Management LLC - Relationship Science Unfortunately for me I've never met anyone that had an interest (throwing some $$ my way) in preserving underground material. I guess once they are rich they got to protect their image.

I had heard about 'saving stamps' from working with WW2 rationing ephemera and WW2 propaganda films. Recently I found out what they are. People would buy .10 or .25 war stamps and put them in a special folder. Once they got to $18.75 they could buy a $25 war bond to fund the war effort. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/t4wAAOSwPt9gsk5z/s-l1600.jpg https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gNwAAOSw9jxgsk6P/s-l1600.jpg Can you imagine funding a war at .10 at a time. Jesus, what a different world it was. The gal I mentioned above was able to contact her aunts. One had broken her back, but it was not too bad and she was recovering. The aunts were too young at the time to remember much of the rationing era. I thought they were in their 90's, but they are only in their late late 80's and were only 10 years old during WW2. Anyway, I'm doing a good job piecing the rationing mystery together little by little.

Yes you can use inkjet. As long as they are aged. Sorry can't give aging data, but possibly aged 1 week. Agining is for you to test. I've only tested water resistance of well aged inkjet prints. nsfw Inkjet Print Water Resistance Tests – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection (wordpress.com) Also note these are pigment based inkjet prints, not dye based. I don't work with dye based inkjet as they have poor fade resistance. I'm thinking maybe make a series of prints from light to dark and keep cutting to the new print. But I don't know. I was always amazed at seeing it when they had the print developed in front of your eyes in the movies. It will make a good YouTube tutorial if you pull it off! Cover 1896 Seed Catalog D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C.

https://archive.org/download/world-war-2-ration-books-and-stamps-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c./World War II Ration Books and Stamps D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C..jpg Anyone know how WWII rationing worked? I know they had at least 3 ration books. Maybe one for each year? They said the ration book was not valid without an affixed stamp, but most of the samples I've seen were used without stamps. One sample book had a rubber stamp in the official stamp area. It is possible due to shortages that they stopped using stamps. I've seen WWII magazines where they cut back on one or two of the staples used to bind the books. As well as cutting back on the # of pages in magazines during the war era. So maybe it was the same deal with stamps and glue. The metal staple shortage can be seen within the editions of the rationing books themselves as book #2 used 2 staples and book #3 used 1 staple. They had a variety of ration coupon types within the books. The coupons with grain were maybe used for bread. Out of 6 books I examined there was only one book that had a few of the grain coupons left. They were marked alphabetically and the number 1. I saw another coupon marked alphabetically and had an illustration of a cup. Only a few of those left as well. Maybe they were for oil or milk? I'm just guessing, all the old timers I know are dead, so no one to ask. The early coupons in Book One were just numbered. Book One was a fold out affair and not stapled. In later books they were saddle stitched and had coupons with cannons, tanks, ships and planes along with the cup and grain coupons. There was no mention as to what the cannons, tanks, ships and planes coupons were used for. On the back of the ration book they give 4 instructions. Among them they tell you..."Detailed instructions concerning the use of the book and the stamps will be issued." The official titles to the ration books are as follows: United States of America War Ration Book One War Ration Book Two War Ration Book No.3 I know a gal with a couple of old aunts in their 90's. So hopefully she can ask them if they are still alive.

Do you need all those keyboards with DaVinci Resolve or can you do a decent job just with your computer?

When films are in production, why do they use a working title instead of the real title? Was this practice more common in the past or is it still in use?

OP, I get a similar messages when they take down my videos / ban me.

Here is some time capsule material for you... It may not be commonly known, but in the 1940's Disney was on the verge of bankruptcy. They didn't have their theme park going yet (it opened in 1955) and relied on the animation production for revenue. Consequently Disney was happy to make propaganda cartoons for the US & Canadian Gov to keep from going bankrupt. Walt Disney's World War II propaganda production - Wikipedia Here are two interesting films from Disney during that era. The first one is a short film encouraging housewives to save and recycle bacon fat at the Official Fat Collection Station. The Gov. needed fat to make explosives and gunpower. Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Firing Line 1942 : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The second film is probably their masterpiece of that genre, Education for Death. It is about how a Nazi youth is raised. And it has some comedy in it as well. A big, fat Brunhilda character buries Hitler's face in between her monster boobs. And Hitler has a heck of a time loading her fat ass on his horse. Education For Death 1943 : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Throughout the cartoon series, which are numerous, the same theme of buying war bonds is hammered home to the audience. And the war bonds ads were not only with this series. You could find ads for war bonds in other cartoons and movies of the era as well as magazine advertising. The Gov could not just create $$ out of thin air back then as opposed to nowadays where $ Trillions can be created with a few extra keystrokes.

Full rundown on descreening halftone scans... https://daniel-d-teoli-jr-archival-collection-ii.home.blog/2021/08/26/to-descreen-or-not-descreen-that-is-the-proverbial-question/

Selection from 'How to make good movies' - Eastman Kodak Inscribed 1946 ...for all you kiddies out there. In the old days, children were addressed as Master.

Moondog - Wheeling, WV 2014 I had hurt my foot a few months ago. (plantar fascia) Coupled with the corrosive virus I have been doing lots of sitting working on the computer. While backing up 513 SD cards to Blu-ray disc I ran across an old photo I shot in 2014 of Moondog. I hadn't seen it since I shot it. (I've got photos going back to 2013 I never looked at...100,000+ ...just no time.) Moondog used to be a fixture on the streets of Wheeling, riding around with his bike loaded with flags. I had heard he had some leg issues and he had a leg amputated and now lives in a rest home. I've been having leg issues as well from all the sitting. Can't stand too long or foot hurts...can't sit too long or hip and leg issues. You never think much about standing, sitting or being able to walk. I even have a stand-up workstation along with 2 heavy rubber anti-fatigue mats for one of my computers, but can't stand too long at it or foot throbs. ...enjoy it while you are young boys and girls!