Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

OP... Yes, digital can cause one to be lazy and undisciplined. But they had lazy and undisciplined film shooters as well back in the day. I'm pretty lazy and undisciplined myself. I never take meter readings, I use the screen for exposure. I don't know what will happen to film. As long as they make the chemicals and the film, I guess people will shoot it. The look from film is the grain is organic and varies. It is not like a digital grain screen that applies grain evenly all over. If they want to add digital grain, they should make the computer grain organic like film. And cut down on the gradations. Digital has more of a plastic look to it. Part may be due to the hyper sharpness of digital. The black and white digital sometimes has too much shades of gray and not enough whites and deep blacks. I'd never go back to film. I like digital. But I enjoy working with film in my archive.

https://archive.org/details/house-piano-eats-girl-nobuhiko-obayashi Here is a clip where the piano eats the girl. I'm always impressed with the special effects in this movie that were done prior to computer generation.

Some amazing stuff. https://www.google.com/search?q=zaha+hadid&sxsrf=ALeKk03Xux4a2fRGMslc08hm_se6kkCsPQ:1595458671826&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil3ozb-uHqAhUHCc0KHUYMAmcQ_AUoAXoECCQQAw&biw=870&bih=737 She is a woman...didn't know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid

Got an email from a local theater chain today about how movie theatres are at risk of closing for good. https://saveyourcinema.com/ I hadn't been to a theatre in 5.5 months due to the corrosive virus. On Saturday I went for the first time to a small theatre showing an independent film festival of about 18 films. About 65% of the films had terrible sound, but that is not the deal. The deal was you had to buy your tickets ahead of time and they said they were limited to selling 30 seats in a theatre holding about 300. Out of 30 tickets only 18 tickets were sold for the single time event. When leaving I talked with the manager. He said the state had just reduced their capacity to 25 seats for future events. They used to have improv, comedy, plays, spoken word at that theatre. This week they had a free improv show on Zoom for the first time in ages. No one was together, everyone on separate screens. Just not the same for improv...terrible. Gave up on it after 15 minutes.

I agree. Too bad others don't see it that way. Doesn't it make you sick how much racism there is nowadays over skin color? https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-07-13/cbs-racial-diversity-effort-writers-development-bipoc CBS wants at least 40% of its writers to be Black, indigenous or people of color by the 2021-22 broadcast season. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions. https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/17/seattle-city-council-member-suggests-firing-white-officers-in-massive-reduction-of-police-department/ Seattle City Council Member Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department

I had a number of 16mm scans done by Gamma Ray Digital. But bear in mind they only scanned archival material for me. I have no experience with them with modern films. Here are 2 raw 16mm scans with no postprocessing that Gamma Ray did for me. Here is another one Gamma Ray did for me. YouTube banned me over this one, so I put up on I.A. https://archive.org/details/GemsOfSongDeannaDurbinD.D.TeoliJr.A.C. Perry is very knowledgeable and I was generally happy with Gamma Ray's work. But I eventually stopped using them. The issue were: Very Expensive to get commercial scans done for 3/4 million+ feet of film They refused to scan some of the material due to content. (But this was not an issue limited only to Gamma Ray. Some commercial scanning companies were even more strict with content issues.) Since scanning is so $$, I could only afford to do one film at a time. It is a pain in the ass shipping films one at a time as well as risky with rare archival material. (But this is just a minor compliant. If I was rich, I'd ship in bulk if I wanted to get commercial scans.) I eventually decided to do my own scans. I sold my motorcycle for $2,800, borrowed a couple thousand $$ and put the rest on my credit card and bought a Retroscan 2K. Here is a 2K Retroscan I did. NSFW The problem with doing scans yourself is the time. I have many areas I work in and just no time for it all. Any one of these areas has enough work for a lifetime or two. Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D.Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography Still, if the commercial companies wont scan your films, then you will have to do them yourself. When I got my commercial scans done I didn't know much about post work with video. So everything had to be paid for, even a simple title. I could not afford to get any grading done on my scans, so that is why the raw scans were used. When you get commercial scans done you pay for every little thing. Especially if you were like me and were just learning and knew next to nothing about film handling. For example, a simple name intertitle was quoted at $50. I didn't know some scanning companies don't clean film unless you pay for it, etc. Over time I've learned more about post processing and am fairly competent at working with archival material now. My long term goal is to be able to buy a high quality 4K sound scanner someday. But lotto is not cooperating. If you want to learn about archival preservation of movie films, get some of the Treasures from American Film Archives DVD series and listen to the commentaries. Good luck with your scan OP!

https://www.redsharknews.com/ursa-mini-pro-12k-blackmagic-design-just-dropped-the-mic Blackmagic Design unveiled an impressive new URSA Mini Pro 12K model that pushes the bar for resolution and frame rates and affordability.

Wow, last night I found out the term 'reverse racism' or 'reverse discrimination,' if uttered by a white guy, means you are a white supremist. I had no idea. I read about it with the news that one of Americas top art curators at SFMOMA had the misfortune of talking about reverse discrimination on a zoom meeting, as in 'don't worry, the museum will still collect art by white people or that would be reverse discrimination.' A petition circulated for his dismissal signed by 280 people. In today's climate if you didn't support the petition you would be labeled as a racist and a petition would be circulated for your dismissal. I didn't provide any link for you. It is all over the net. You find the link that matches your personal prejudices will approve of. Got up early this morning, still blurry eyed, I turned on NPR news. I didn't get the whole story, but they were talking about 'if you are buying guns in this panic...you are a racist.' Moral of the story...never mention reverse racism (if you are white) and don't tell anyone if you own guns.

Now, any of you familiar with Amazon's 'Cracka' series? That is where white supremists go back in time and get enslaved by blacks. I thought I read one of the films promotion lines as...'you raped our daughter, now we will rape yours' or something like that. There is no racist backlash to Cracka. And personally I don't see why there should be. I've always told the forum an artist needs to room to work and explore various possibilities. In short, my view is, if it is legal do what you like. You don't hear any outrage over Cracka...huh. As Donny Trump Jr. recently said regarding Instagram's 'Mute Whites' option, if it is against whites...it isn't racist.

No, that is for the forum to decide Robin, not me. Just on the news (PBS) was how media companies are eliminating white hires and mandating 25% to 50% be spent on color / other than white for various positions , scrips, productions, etc. I have no problem with conservatives or liberal views. The only problem is when the claims are lies and when the views are forced down my throat.

No idea if true or not David. That is why we discuss here. I just report what I find and we hash it out in real time. Personally I've experienced massive prejudice with my work. But I can't say it is because I'm white. Although I've thought 'old' may be an issue. If you look at TV David, 'blacks' and 'homosexuals' are being pushed down everyone's throat as a rate far beyond their percentage of the population. So seemed very plausible to me David.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513727/Actors-writers-producers-warn-reverse-racism-film-industry.html Hollywood's identity crisis: Actors, writers and producers warn of 'reverse racism' in the film industry which has created a 'toxic' climate for anyone who is a white, middle-age man. ----------------------------- I brought up age discrimination / boomer hate a while back with getting work. Looks like skin color may be a factor as well now. (Probably does not affect Deakins.)

Films that you have naming controls of? Now the name may not be used solely associated with production. Sometimes the name is used incorporated with word 'film' as in 'A XYZ Film.' I really hate when films use many 'production' or 'film' names back to back. Like they have multiple people that need their ego massaged. Someone on another forum called me a mouth breather. Well, I liked the name so I got my artist to make me a logo for my 'Mouth Breather Production' and 'A Mouth Breather Film.' https://archive.org/details/a-mouth-breather-production-nano-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c. I got other names I use, such as 'A Chikan Groper Film', 'A Jumping Jack Film' and a few more. I get bored easy and like to have some fun, so I call my films by different names...but being visually oriented, they all have images that go with the names. Now if I could not use images along with the names I probably would not use production names like this. What about you? If you use production names how did you decide on the name?

OP...do a test between the 2 and post the results.

https://archive.org/details/the-golden-west...-los-angeles-partial The source of this film said it was the earlier formula Kodachrome even though the film is dated 1938. I've seen early Kodachrome, (pre 1938) it is nothing like this. It is a mess. Also see gasholder @ 43 seconds upper left. (looks like erector set) Very rare and extinct. There were common in when I was a kid. Before hi-pressure gas lines, gasholders were it for natural gas.

In today's cancel culture, with low prospects for film processing choices, it would not surprise me for labs to ban troublemakers.

OP, can't advise about the tech. Can only reply as to standards. We are in a new world now, and it is not just from the corrosive virus. Standards have gone to hell in many areas and pride of workmanship has been replaced with a 'just give me my paycheck' mentality. Honesty is also under attack. The lab may have made a mistake on their end and it will be charged to you instead of them eating the loss. Can you prove otherwise? You depend on them for honesty. Not much you can do about it now midstream. Try another lab next time or maybe suck it up and start shooting digital if you find it hard to get your film processed properly without wrecking a project. What would have happened if you had given them the entire shoot at once and you can't reshoot the material? Good luck!

https://archive.org/details/kish-ultimate-directors-cine-viewfinder-ground-glass-markings-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c./mode/2up Maybe of use to someone.

https://archive.org/details/the-tourists-1912 Internet Archive restored most of my account so am in the process of reorganizing my film collection that was in disarray after it was put in storage when the I.A. closed my account. Here is a cute silent film from 1912 called The Tourists. Synopsis: Tourists miss their train and are stuck in a small town with Indians selling wares to travelers. One of the female tourists flirts with a male Indian and his wife gets mad. A group of Indian squaws goes on the warpath to seek their revenge and the tourists have to make a fast escape. It was interesting how in the old days the companies making the films would put their logo on the intertitle cards. Currently I have 158 films at the I.A. Eventually I will have thousands of films at the I.A. (If they don't ban me again.) I can't put them all up there. Search my account at the I.A. and you can see what films interests you.

OK, just converted it to MP4. Here is Mantrap https://archive.org/details/mantrap-1926 If you got slow net like me, you will have to download to watch. I can't even watch my own uploads. I also converted about 40 other silent films to upload. Some of them are crazy interesting. Little by little will get them up, as long as the I.A. does not kick me out again. Still have trouble with getting sound synched with lips on some of the MP4 conversions. You would think in this day and age it would not be an issue. I have to cut the audio out and try and drag it to reposition it. But that only works up to a point. Luckily for me most of my archival film work, as well as my own filmmaking is very basic and is not loaded with hi-tech trickery...that I don't know how to do even if I wanted to.

Very Nice! Looks like some interesting stuff. Good luck Ellory!

I saw her in 'Mantrap'. It is a silent film for 1926. Bow was fantastic. I hope to put the film on the Internet Archive sometime. The Internet Archive just restored most of my account (1649 out of 1666 collections) Have no idea what they deleted. My first goal is to make a screen recording to inventory my Archive at the I.A.. Better late than never. First time in 51 years of work and 51 years of censorship that anyone reversed their decision to pull the plug on me. But it was just by chance that I contacted the right person, otherwise they refused. I had about a dozen silent films I was in the process of uploading to the I.A. when they closed my account. Was disgusted and chucked them all. Now I have to go find all the films again. ...well, that is how it is on July 4, 2020.

Short and sweet...Beautiful! .

Lets see her art Vital. Dos she have a website?

Put some of that stuff online AJ. WordPress is a good free blogging site. OP, in the past I've made spiral bound proposals with my inkjet printers. But they are costly and time consuming. If a proposal didn't work out and I got it back, it was a simple thing to unbind it and change a page or two with the recipients names and rebind it. But I have a binding machine and can do it myself. If you can get by with the digital, then AJ's method sounds good. You may want to ask the recipient what they prefer...digital or print. I always liked books myself, something about having it in your hands. But I can't say one method is better than the other. Some people hate books and like digital. Good luck OP!