Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Andrew and Shawn are both right, in that there is not right or wrong way other than you gotta be true to your vision. If you are all about loud and obnoxious, then be true to it. I do what I like almost 98% of the time. And if it turns people off, so be it. If you can't be true to your art, then what have you got? If it is not your natural way, then it is just an act. You are just trying to be someone else for the $$. Now, if you are just starting out, then you may have to bend some. But if you want to develop a personal style, then it is good to stick to your vision as much as you can.

You have to have $$ for that AJ. Some of these poor filmmakers can hardly afford the film stock. As I've told the forum before, artists have to dream and then they try to find a way to get sum...of that dream. OP, you should find a gal that is into MMA or boxing and is used to getting beat up. If you can't do it right, dump the shot. Never put in a crappy shot just because your ego demands it. Rewrite the script to fit your skills and budget. You should try all these stunts yourself OP to see what they feel like. Put some padding on the actors under their clothes or the walls and paint it. Can you do some fast edits of the chair falling back on a thin dense foam pad then a close up cut to the bare floor shot? If she is in the attackers arms he should be able to break her fall somewhat. You could put a harness around him that has an elastic tether to help keep some of the weight off of her. But all this stuff takes rigging and lots of testing. One thing to watch for when falling backwards on a chair onto tile floor is hitting your head on the tile. Or she could fall on a hamper of clothes then ono the tile. And if all else fails, put some nudity in it OP. A nude shot it worth 3 or 4 falling chair shots. Good luck...and send in the film when you are done.

OK, that is fair Uli. But do you want to be force-fed to read one sided opinions jammed into the film or put it in the special features? You see Uli, much of this was just how life was lived back then. Same with Jivaro Indians that shrunk heads or Mayan that offered human sacrifices to their gods and what have you. Now when I say one sided Uli, do you know that black males are +/- 6.3% of the population in the USA and do upwards of +/- 52% of the murder in the USA? Will they put that in the film as well Uli? I don't mind at all if people have their say, but lets get both sides of the story Uli.

I hope this is not too political for you guys and gals. But it IS film news. The cancel culture has axed 'Gone with the Wind' as too racist for public consumption. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-max-removes-gone-wind-1297806 The Christmas classic 'Holiday Inn' is next on the chopping block. DVD's of the films may someday be as scarce as 'Song of the South.' Unthinkable, huh? But if the book burning gets under steam and the virtue signalers get ahold of the DVD's for public shows of mass destruction, anything is possible nowadays.

Now, even if a person is rich there can be no continuity online. Lets say I was rich and could set up my own dream website. As soon as I kicked off an stopped paying the bills my website would go poof. And even if I set up a Foundation to run it, the Foundation would be composed of prejudiced people with their own egos and agenda. Sooner or later they would **(obscenity removed)** up the Archive. I'm one of the few people in the world that could run such a website as I have no prejudice when it comes to archival work. I work true to form. Fads, politics and complaints don't phase me. Since I am non commercial, threats of boycott and physical threats do not affect me. Nowadays with the 'cancel culture' they will try to destroy a person they do not agree with by any means and sometimes that means is physical. I carry a Glock wherever I go and have a SBR in my trunk with easy access via the pass through. (In NYC I keep a low profile as I can't carry my guns.) Now sure, I got plenty or personal prejudices, but they do not extend to archival work. I check my personal prejudices at the door when it comes to my work. The Getty Museum worked around some of these problems I bring up. They set the standard for how an archive should be managed and shared with the world. They share their copyright owned material for free and in hi-res, that can be used for any use and in easy to download files. I model my own Archive after the Getty. Being an underground Archive, I even go beyond what the Getty offers. I share hi-res files of things I don't own the copyright to, but I assume would not be a problem sharing do to age and or fair use. In other words...I push the envelope. And if there would be a complaint, I'd take it down. But in 5-1/2 years of work, I've only had a couple of copyright complaints. (Film copyright complaints were more common.) Making sure an archive is distributed around the world and is in as many hands as possible is a good way to preserve a semblance of an archive before the POS that eventually take it over get their hands on it and start working to dismantle it and erase history.

I worked for the Internet Archive for 5-1/2 years as a volunteer. On May 25, 2020 they banned me and deleted all my uploads, which totaled 70,000 to 110,000 items. The collection was a mix of film, video, audio, photos, artwork and PDF books. I don't have an exact number of items as I never counted the number of items in each collection. To me it was like putting money in a piggy bank. You keep putting in, you know it is a lot, but you never know what the exact amount is. I lost some of the material as I used the Internet Archive as a cloud and didn't keep a backup. But I have the original files for about 90% -95% of the items. I wrote Internet Archive to ask if they could restore my account for a couple of days so I could download my lost files, but got no reply. Beside having a photo and PDF website, is it practical for an individual to set up a mini YouTube type website that can have downloadable video and downloadable audio? The video does not have to be exactly like YouTube. It can be downloadable video files with just sample still clips or stills if a YouTube video style website is too pricey to make and maintain. If so, how much does it cost to set up such a website? How much a year is it to maintain it? Where would I go to learn how to do it? High resolution files of all the archival material I contributed was free to all. I called my archive 'The People's Archive.' Sadly, I didn't even get up 1% -2% of my films before they deleted it all. Even so I had somewhere around 125 films and VHS videos uploaded. Here is the material the Internet Archive deleted and what I want to put on my website. Early Photography: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Opalotypes, Tintypes, Cyanotypes, Glass Plates, Autochromes, Gum Bichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Bromoil, & Salt Prints. C.D.V. & Cabinet Cards Sodbusters - Prairie Settlers Fat Women of the 1800's Fashion, Portrait & Vernacular Photographs from the 19th Century Early Japanese 19th Century Albumen Photographs & Glass Plates Early 20th Century Rodeo Photographs Vintage Ballerinas & Dancers Historical Collotype, Woodburytype, Photogravure & Halftone Plates Pre-Jazz Era – WW I Roaring 20’s – Flappers1930’s – Depression Era1940’s – WW II Eiffel Tower Bobbysoxers Vintage Schools, Classrooms & Students Vintage Dye Transfer Prints Steel Pier Diving Horses Girls with Cameras 1950’s – Extensive Beat Generation Archives 1960’s – Hippies Vintage Kodachrome Slides Fashion 1845 – 1980: Dresses, Hats, Ribbons, Bows, Bonnets, Buttons & Shoes 19th & 20th Century Muffs - Purses Victorian & Edwardian Husband & Wife Portraits 19th Century Children Extensive Collection of 19th & Early 20th Century Wedding Dresses Mid 20th Century Satin & Lace Wedding Dresses Tea Length Wedding Dresses Vintage Wedding Parties Vintage Bridal Bouquets & Nosegays Vintage Bridal Headpieces Magic Lantern Slides Vintage Boxing Ladies Artists & Art Studios Mutilated Photos – Faces Cut Out Vintage Travel Trailers Breastfeeding Majorettes Vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Reel to Reel, Television, HAM and Vacuum Tube Photos & Ephemera QSL Postcard Archive / QSL Risqué Postcards Historical Audio Recordings Acetate Records Airchecks Radio Transcriptions Phil Schaap Jazz Archive Reel to Reel & Cassette Tapes Ruth Wallis Archive Living Letters Archive Nesta Kerin Crain Archive Radio Station Photos and Ephemera Early Beachwear Fredericks of Hollywood Archive Sami Laplanders Archive Women’s Hairstyles 1840 – 1980 Hair Curlers Christmas – Santa Claus – Snowmen Vintage New York City Before Photoshop – Retouched Photos Of Historical Interest Macabre Yawning Vintage Eyeglasses Vintage African Postcards Vintage Middle East Postcards Newsworthy Vintage Press Photos Politics Nixon Archive JFK Archive The McCarthy Era Vintage Football Press Photographers – Press Cameras Roadside Americana – Dinosaur Statues Stereo Photography Painted (Retouched) Press Photos Gender Studies Vintage Nudes Upskirts Vintage Pornography Sexual Deviants Early Bondage, BDSM Photos and Ephemera Crossdressers Homosexual Erotica Early Transvestite - Female Impersonators - Mimic Publications Vintage Explicit Personal Correspondence 8mm and 16mm Vintage Pornography 1920 – 1970 16mm Adult Film Trailers Vintage Homosexual & Heterosexual Cartoon Photos Vintage 16mm Kodachrome Home Movies 1938 – 1960 Historical 16mm Films 1920 – 1960 Vintage Train Films Educational Films & School Daily Life Circus Films Underground Films Art Films – ‘Art Student’ Figure Films Silent Films / Silent Films with later added comic narration Cine Arts Films Small Gauge Reel and Film Can Archive Film Rental Catalogs Vintage 1970’s VHS Pornography Videotapes1970’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS Vintage Erotic Cartoons Early #800, #900 & ‘.com’ Sex Ads on VHS Early Homosexual VHS Sex Ads Japanese 1980’s VHS Pornography Videotapes Japanese 1980’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS Obscure VHS Videotapes Political Comix Vintage Medical Photos Sleepers RPPC’s Propaganda Outcasts Underground Social Documentary Photography Vernacular Snapshot Aesthetics Vintage Circus Vintage Night Photography Whimsical Halloween Blackface Historical NAACP / Racial Prejudice Picnics Ghost Transfer Images Black Panther - Black Power Publications Belle Barth Archive Switchboard Operators Vintage Parades1940’s – 1960’s Swimsuits & Sportswear Vintage Umbrellas & Parasols Weegee Archive Vintage Rodeo Currier & Ives Darktown Comics Vintage Print Advertising Stripper Groupies See-through Negligée Trocadero Theatre Bettie Page Archive Hand-Colored Photos Maurice Seymour Archive Irving Klaw Zine & Ephemera Irving Klaw Negative Archive Vintage Pinups Eric Stanton Illustrations Sexploitation Vintage Birthday Parties Donald Trump Film Era Ephemera Vintage Cine’ & Still Camera Ephemera Leica Publications & Ephemera Vintage High School & College Yearbooks Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Collection Down Syndrome Self Harm – Cutters Postmortem Photographs Early Computer, Video & Cell Phone Ephemera Black Americana Vintage Sheet Music Artists’ Books Vintage Comix – Comics Original Comix Art & Ephemera Neo-Nazi - White Power Publications Mimeograph Machine Photos & Ephemera Vintage Jazz Photos, Periodicals & Ephemera Yodeling Dick Brooks Archive Early Mountain, Country, Hillbilly, Western & Folk Music WWVA Jamboree Archive Square Dance Music, Call Sheets and Ephemera Mimeo Revolution Press – Little Magazines –Independent Press Poetry Counterculture & Underground Newspapers Paladin Press Archive Covid-19 - Coronavirus Audio Archive Vintage Newspapers Handbills Malware / Ransomware / SPAM / Robocall Correspondence Laserdiscs Zines ...Thanks for any help!

A 1972 16mm film on the history of porn in NYC came up for sale on eBay. I have been looking for a copy of it on VHS for years. It covers the 1970s grindhouse era on Times Square. The 16mm film for sale is only 90% complete. The seller has a scanning lab out in the Northwest. I asked if he was going to scan the film before he sells it, but he said he wasn't. He said if it was complete he possibly would scan it. He told me he could scan the 50 min film on a Lasergraphics for $500 if I wanted a copy. I offered him $50 for a DVD just to look at the faded pink film, but $50 does not go far with film work. That is what happens with money based enterprises, it is all about profit. With non-profit historical archives they are happy to get what they can and if something better does comes up they update their material with a better copy. But there is no guarantee a better copy will ever come up. Now, I can't blame him for wanting a profit, we all have to pay the rent. Just saying films are disgustingly expensive to deal with. If I was rich I'd pay $500 for a DVD to look at. I would not care. When you kick off you leave it all behind for someone else to spend for you, so why not spend it yourself. But alas, not rich. Going back to film archives... I was told that when the big film archives do find a better copy for their library they trash the retired version in the dumpster. If true, isn't that sad ending for film.

https://www.redsharknews.com/sony-zv-1-is-an-entirely-new-genre-of-camera "Some of you out there might claim that a Vlogging camera isn't new. However Sony's newly announced ZV-1 isn't just a camera that has a few Vlog friendly features. Instead it has been designed from the ground up to be used for this purpose."

I sometimes shoot a movie with a still cam for timing and comp practice. Lots of nice stills in Godzilla https://danieldteolijrarchivalcollection.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/the-godzilla/ I did another one on The Train. Have not got around to post processing it.

Convert it, lets see you vision.

Let me also add I've been using alcohol wipes on my old school non smart TracFone, my DSLR screens, my mirrorless screens. Never a problem.

Interesting article, just as the title says. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-running-gallery-apartment-side-art I liked the part of the DJ in the kitchen playing 'Frankenstein' records that were cut up and glued back together like Wm. S. Burroughs mosaic prose he cut up and glued back together. How is that even possible? I would think it would wreck the needle.

Dunno why Uli It has been the same material, same everything for 5 years and no violation, then yesterday boom, a violation. I heard back today from the I.A. here is their email: "Hi, It appears that the materials you have uploaded violate the Terms of Use.Your account will remain locked. Best, Jeff, Internet Archive Team" So that was the kiss off I got for 5 years of volunteer work Uli. If I was rich I could open up my ow archive online, but as soon as you stop paying the bills...it goes poof! Some of that material I donated to the I.A. was a crazy amount of work. With the Darktown Comics it took months to acquire and then post process. Same with the sheet music archive. Well, I may try to sell some of it on eBay. No place else to go with it. I will sell 'instant archives' on M-discs for big money. I don't want to sell it, I used to give it all away for free. But if I have to burn discs and mail them I want to be paid for doing things I don't want to do. If they don't want to pay $50 or $75 for a Blu-ray data disc then let it die with me when I kick off. One small minded curator I proposed a donation to rejected it and said it was already on the I.A. She was small minded for 2 reasons: 1) Having to download 150 big files is not the same as having it all broken down for instant access on a DVD. 2) It is not available any longer sicne my I.A. account was shut down. That underscores the importance of archives backing up other archives. Now Uli, it is one thing if you got 5 years worth of warning violations. But I got only 1 shutdown in 5 years and no warnings. And the shutdown was from a computer glitch that said I was a spammer. But they reinstated immediately.

I've been trying to reinvent myself with regards to my archival work and social documentary photography. I tried to upload some stuff to the Internet Archive today and found my account was deleted. I lost 1,666 uploads encompassing +/- 130,000 individual items that I had donated to the Archive. Here is a list of some of what they deleted... Early Photography: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Opalotypes, Tintypes, Cyanotypes, Glass Plates, Autochromes, Gum Bichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Bromoil, & Salt Prints. C.D.V. & Cabinet Cards Fashion, Portrait & Vernacular Photographs from the 19th Century Early Japanese 19th Century Albumen Photographs & Glass Plates Early 20th Century Rodeo Photographs Vintage Ballerinas & Dancers Historical Collotype, Woodburytype, Phtotogravure & Halftone Plates Pre-Jazz Era – WW I Roaring 20’s – Flappers 1930’s – Depression Era 1940’s – WW II Eiffel Tower Bobbysoxers Vintage Schools, Classrooms & Students Vintage Dye Transfer Prints Steel Pier Diving Horses Girls with Cameras 1950’s – Extensive Beat Generation Archives 1960’s – Hippies Vintage Kodachrome Slides Fashion 1845 – 1980: Dresses, Hats, Ribbons, Bows, Bonnets, Buttons & Shoes Victorian & Edwardian Husband & Wife Portraits 19th Century Children Extensive Collection of 19th & Early 20th Century Wedding Dresses Mid 20th Century Satin & Lace Wedding Dresses Tea Length Wedding Dresses Vintage Wedding Parties Vintage Bridal Bouquets & Nosegays Vintage Bridal Headpieces Magic Lantern Slides Vintage Boxing Ladies Artists & Art Studios Mutilated Photos - Faces Cut Out Vintage Trailers Breastfeeding Majorettes Vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Reel to Reel, Television, HAM and Vacuum Tube Photos & Ephemera QSL Postcard Archive / QSL Risqué Postcards Historical Audio Recordings Acetate Records Airchecks Radio Transcriptions Phil Schaap Archive Reel to Reel & Cassette Tapes Living Letters Radio Station Photos and Ephemera Early Beachwear Fredericks of Hollywood Archive Sami Laplanders Archive Women’s Hairstyles 1840 – 1980 Hair Curlers Christmas – Santa Claus – Snowmen Vintage New York City Before Photoshop – Retouched Photos Of Historical Interest Macabre Yawning Vintage Eyeglasses Vintage African Postcards Vintage Middle East Postcards Newsworthy Vintage Press Photos Politics Nixon Archive JFK Archive McCarthy Era Vintage Football Press Photographers – Press Cameras Roadside Americana – Dinosaur Statues Stereo Photography Painted Press Photos Gender Studies Vintage Nudes Upskirts Vintage Pornography Sexual Deviants Early Bondage, BDSM Photos and Ephemera Crossdressers Homosexual Erotica Vintage Explicit Personal Correspondence 8mm and 16mm Vintage Pornography 1920 – 1970 16mm Adult Film Trailers Vintage Homosexual & Heterosexual Cartoon Photos Vintage 16mm Kodachrome Home Movies 1938 – 1960 Historical 16mm Films 1920 – 1960 Vintage Train Films Educational Films & School Daily Life Circus Films Underground Films Art Films - 'Art Student' Figure Films Silent Films / Silent Films with later added comic narration Cine Arts Films Small Gauge Reel and Film Can Archive Film Rental Catalogs Vintage 1970's VHS Pornography Videotapes 1970's Adult Film Trailers on VHS Vintage Erotic Cartoons Early #800, #900 & '.com' Sex Ads on VHS Early Homosexual VHS Sex Ads Japanese 1980's VHS Pornography Videotapes Japanese 1980's Adult Film Trailers on VHS Political Comix Vintage Medical Photos Sleepers RPPC’s Propaganda Outcasts Underground Social Documentary Photography Vernacular Snapshot Aesthetics Vintage Circus Vintage Night Photography Whimsical 19th Century Fat Women Halloween Blackface Historical NAACP / Racial Prejudice Picnics Ghost Transfer Images Switchboard Operators Vintage Parades 1940's - 1960's Swimsuits & Sportswear Vintage Umbrellas & Parasols 19th & Early 20th Century Purses & Muffs Weegee Archive Vintage Rodeo Currier & Ives Darktown Comics Vintage Print Advertising Stripper Groupies See-through Negligée Trocadero Theatre Bettie Page Archive Hand-Colored Photos Maurice Seymour Archive Irving Klaw Zine & Ephemera Irving Klaw Negative Archive Vintage Pinups Eric Stanton Illustrations Sexploitation Vintage Birthday Parties Donald Trump Film Era Ephemera Vintage Cine' & Still Camera Ephemera Leica Publications & Ephemera Vintage High School & College Yearbooks Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Collection Down Syndrome Self Harm - Cuttters Postmortem Photographs Early Computer, Video & Cell Phone Ephemera Black Americana - Jazz - Vintage Sheet Music Artists' Books Vintage Comix – Comics Original Comix Art & Ephemera Mimeograph Machine Photos & Ephemera Vintage Jazz Photos, Periodicals & Ephemera Yodeling Dick Brooks Archive Early Mountain, Country, Hillbilly, Western & Folk Music WWVA Jamboree Archive Square Dance Music, Call Sheets and Ephemera Mimeo Revolution Press - Little Magazines - Independent Press Poetry Counterculture & Underground Newspapers Vintage Newspapers Handbills Malware / Ransomware / SPAM / Robocall Correspondence Laserdiscs Zines I had been a volunteer working round the clock for the last 5 years to get things scanned and uploaded to the I.A.. Any money I would get beyond basic living expenses would go to them. I wrote them to inquire why then banned me, but no reply as of yet. I was especially mad as they deleted over 200 hours of unscoped covid-19 airchecks I made over a 6 week period from the early part of the pandemic. I figured it was going to be an important part of history to document what unfolded. Not many other outlet's for my Archive. I have 80+ WordPress sites, but they could go poof at any time. That was what happened to Tumblr. I had spent 4 years making 48 Tumblrs. Then one day they decided to pull the plug on me and I lost it all. Same thing with Wiki Commons. Spent a year sending in uploads, one day someone got a hard-on for me and they deleted them all. YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn have all pulled the plug on me in the past. I joined again under different names, but can't send in much or they will ban me. And I never really started on my films either. I have about half a million feet that need to be scanned. All small subject 8mm and 16mm reels, very rare stuff. Really sickening how you can waste your life away. I'd like to give up on the archival / social doc work, but it is all I know. I'm old, just got a few years left, so not much time to reinvent myself. ..well, that is what is happening on 5.25.2020.

Gotta test things, don't just do them blindly. Alcohol does ruin some stuff. I had a post it note on a commercial DVD. The post it note left sticky residue on the DVD. I used an alcohol wipe on the DVD. Forgot is was not a silk screen printed DVD but was inkjet printed. The alcohol wipe messed up the inkjet image somewhat. I can only vouch for my pad which I think is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Cleaned it many dozen times with alcohol wipes. Perfect! I also use the wipes for Epson sheet fed scanners. But the scan area is glass, so it is not an issue. And I use them for lens cleaning for the last 5 years. You can also try wearing plastic gloves with your touchscreen.

The Government produced a propaganda series during WW2 called Private Snafu Here is one of the films. https://archive.org/details/private-snafu-spies-1943_202005 I wanted to buy a 16mm copy of Tokyo Joikio selling on eBay. It is a propaganda Looney Tunes cartoon made by Warner Bros making fun of Japan. But it sold for more than I could afford. Really, it was not that much $$. But if you bid on a bunch of films you have to have the $$ to pay for them if you win them all. So it makes it tough to bid strong if you are up in the air as to what the bill will be.

I guess for some reason he does not stand out that much. I will have to give his work some more viewing time.

Maybe they will come up with disposable screen covers you can peel off or sanitize without worries. I've used mini alcohol wipes on my tablet's screen for years and no problems. I clean with a alcohol wipe then wipe dry with a Kimwipe. This was before covid. The wipes do a nice job cleaning up fingerprints and dirt. But they only work for tablets and phones. Too small for monitors. You would need bigger wipes.

Thanks for everyone's feedback! Anyone have an idea what they paid the editors back in the film days, say 1970's and 1980's? Dealing with all those film clips must have been hell. I would think it was a lot harder back then than they have it now with digital. In addition to timing, I think one of the components of being a good editor is that of being good at doing puzzles. Also having a good memory of what you got and putting it all together.

"...A top colorist can make $1500/hour!" What do average colorists make?

Wow, that is big $$ Robin! Sounds like they make more than the DP.

The Blu-ray Indiana Jones collection has many hours of great commentary and archival footage from Spielberg

Do they charge depending on how big a budget film it is? Or is it the same day rate for big or small budget films?

Just by chance I found some oddball tapes I never knew existed. Candid Camera's Alan Funt made an R-rated series called Candid, Candid Camera. I picked up 6 volumes of it on VHS.

Thanks for the rundown Vital.