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Breckenridge, TX Poultry Plant 1927 Photographer: Basil Clemons Source: U.T. Arlington Special Collections Post Processing: D.D.Teoli Jr. <><><><> 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 always tell you my middle name should be scanner. Well, screen recorder is right up there as a 2nd choice. Today I hit 30,000 knives in my online knife and sword survey. ...all made with a screen recorder. Gold is always in the news nowadays. I did multiple surveys with the screen recorder on gold, silver and other metals. Lots of companies don't make catalogs any longer. I wrote to Black Diamond and asked if they had a 2025 catalog. Answer was no, not even a PDF catalog. So, sometimes I make catalogs myself. I make a screenshot survey of a company's website with a screen recorder. OK, this isn't a screenshot. But I did originally shoot it as a screenshot. Then went to eBay to buy it and scan it proper with my large format 11" x 17" scanner. You see photos online you can't download, movies, gif, etc. Downloading is blocked. Use a screen recorder. People will say they can take a screenshot without a screen recorder. OK, go do it for hundreds of thousands of images. I blast out screenshots like a machine gun...7 days a week! I'm not a sociologist, but I am kinda like a sociologist. A section of my archive's scope deals with houses and how people live. This house has an interesting feature, a movable Island. I'm not interested in buying the houses. I just like to record how people live. Each house may have 80 - 130 screenshots in the survey. Tens of thousands of photos all done with a screen recorder. Here is a movie called 'China Doll' I made with a screen recorder. It is made from +/- 450 still screenshots I shot in a couple of hours and is about Chinese silicone love dolls. When younger I was a street photographer. I am trained at fast shooting, not in f'ing around. This is the kind of movies I like to make. Boom, you are finished with them in a couple days and on to the next project. To do moviemaking right you have to be very anal aka methodical. That is not me. Sure, I like high quality work, but it also has to be fast. ADD won't go for much analness. That is why running a movie archive fits my personality best. I scan, I post-p, I upload and boom...all done! I learned early on I'm not cut out for on-set work and bullshit. Plus, most everyone in the archival films are dead. No personalities to deal with! NSFW China Doll D.D.Teoli Jr. : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive You can copy movies with a screen recorder, but I don't have any samples handy. I didn't bother to distinguish the few videos I did as being made with a screen recorder. Sometimes I will copy a video with a screen recorder just to watch it later and relax with TV viewing instead of computer. Then I trash it as it didn't have that much interest in it after all. Whatever, you can record online video fine. You like to archive things, get a screen recorder. An outstanding tool for the archivist! I use it multiple times per day. <><><><> 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

Survey of RTI Cinescan Inspection Stations eBay D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. Streaming: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Looks like a nice concept from back in the day. This is what archives need. A fast motorized inspection station to see what is on the reels. <><><><> 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

La Habra, California 1920s RPPC DDTJRAC <><><><> 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

Farriers 1904-1918 RPPC DDTJRAC <><><><> 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

Here is an example of my film archive database. It is based off of my main archive database. I use it because it is simple, requires no extra software and it works for me. A master folder is made for the database collection. Subfolders are made for each film. Within the subfolder there can be text files, stills, sub subfolders or film samplers. Ideally a sampler of the film is made by speeding up the film at 1250% or one if made from stills extracted when the film is scanned. Stills from the scan are used every 10 to 14 frames and flashed about .2 seconds each. But all that is variable. It does not contain scans of the actual film other than samplers or stills. The scans are put on HDD and archived on M-Disc DVD, M-Disc Blu-ray and archival Blu-ray in an optical disc library. ...and when it comes to the need for overcomplication. Either this system does not offer you the tools you need. Or you are a deep thinker and need more complications in your life to keep your deep thinking mind occupied. <><><><> 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

You screwed the appliance into the light socket overhead. 1906 ad DDTJRAC Even big washing machines were screwed into the socket. 1909 ad DDTJRAC <><><><> 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 needed some temperature conversion charts. I was having a hard time finding anything useful. NASA had some useful charts. I download them, then uploaded them to the Internet Archive. Lots of temp conversion charts around, just crappy ones that are poor quality or you have to buy them. You see something interesting or useful...archive it! Donate material to the Internet Archive. You've already got it, preserve it for the historical record. Go the distance! <><><><> 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 get lots of dirty archival material to work with on the copy stand, sheet fed scanner, cine' and slide scanning, etc. I use compressed air to help clean things, along with other cleaning methods. The compressed air was a gigantic breakthrough once I started to use it years ago. Before that it was a rocket hand blower. I don't have a permanent place to work; it is all temporary setups. A wood clamp gives me a place to park the air gun...temporarily. I still use the rocket blower for delicate jobs like lens cleaning. I don't want to blow dust inside the lens. But for 95% of the work, it is the air gun. Don't forget to drain the compressor once in a while. I do it weekly. In the humid Rustbelt we got lots of moisture in the air. That was a benefit from living in L.A., we had dry air. <><><><> 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

1923 DDTJRAC Auto Forum / SS In the old days, before you started your car, you needed to give the cylinders a shot of gas. ...always learning new stuff as an archivist. <><><><> 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

The spam had calmed down a notch over the last couple of years, but then it started to go up again. People must be more desperate or greedy. Or it could be the spam level is more than it was, and AI has fixed it some with better filters. Dunno. If I was rich, I'd like to hire investigators to go the distance with these spammers and robocallers. They would document the whole process of the scam. It would be very interesting. But I don't like to talk with people, so I never contact them, I just archive them. And even if I did, I have no time. Being short on time, I only archive the interesting spams now. This was how it was a few years ago. 501 SPAM emails received over a 1-week period : DDTJRAC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive If someone puts a little time and effort into stealing, then I will archive it. But so much of the spam has nothing to it for creativity and effort. This one is part of a common themes in spam mails. They like to call you beloved one. They must have a country were beloved one is a common phrase to use. I am Waiting For Your Response, Aisha Al-qaddafi From: aishagaddafiiii26@gmail.com Fri, Aug 8 at 8:46 PM My Beloved One, Please bear with me. I am writing this letter to you with tears and sorrow from my heart. I am Aisha Muammar Gaddafi, the only daughter of the embattled president of Libya, Hon. Muammar Gaddafi. I know my mail might come to you as a surprise because you don’t know me, but due to the unsolicited nature of my situation here in Refugee camp Ouagadougou Burkina Faso i decided to contact you for help. I have passed through pains and sorrowful moments since the death of my father. At the same time, my family is the target of Western nations led by Nato who want to destroy my father at all costs. Our investments and bank accounts in several countries are their targets to freeze. My Father of blessed memory deposited the sum of $27.5M (Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in a Bank at Burkina Faso which he used my name as the next of kin. I have been commissioned by the (BCB) bank to present an interested foreign investor/partner who can stand as my trustee and receive the fund in his account for a possible investment in his country due to my refugee status here in Burkina Faso. I am in search of an honest and reliable person who will help me and stand as my trustee so that I will present him to the Bank for the transfer of the fund to his bank account overseas. I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust but rather take me as your own sister or daughter. If this transaction interests you, you don't have to disclose it to anybody because of what is going on with my entire family, if the United nation happens to know this account, they will freeze it as they freeze others, so please keep this transaction only to yourself until we finalize it. Sorry for my pictures. I will enclose it in my next mail and more about me when I hear from you okay. Yours Sincerely Best Regard, Aisha Gaddafi Some of the spam are very threatening. I get robocalls telling me I will be arrested and other ones demanding bitcoin for blackmail. Maybe it is the ghost of Epstein calling! mschavez@misiones.bo 12:22 AM (12 hours ago) to me Hello There. This is your last notification. I hacked your system through the Wireless router you were connecting to. A few weeks ago, I accessed the systems that you used to get on the net. All of the data out of your devices was quickly replicated to my servers. I have access to all of your mobile device messengers, social network sites, e-mail, chat history, and contact list. My computer virus repeatedly changes its signature (driver type), so it remains unnoticeable to anti-virus tools. I guess right now you see, why I remained quite right until this exact day While get together info in regards to you, I discovered you're a big follower of porn web pages & much more. You truly prefer to visit porno websites and look at kinky clips whilst having an orgasmic pleasure. I have surely created a web cam shooting videos of you jacking off. The cropping and editing of the video you were watching right at that moment and your genital masturbation. Your own facial expression is obviously visible. I don't believe this sort of content will be really good for your personal reputation. I can forward this video out to everybody who know your identity. I additionally have no challenge with rendering all of your personal info open public in cyberspace. I do believe you realize what i am talking about. It'll be a huge frustration for you. I am able to ruin your daily life forever. I really think you really do not want that to occur. Now let's solve it in this manner: you transfer me 1500 $ (dollars) thru btc equivalent at the moment of payment), & I will promptly delete all your information from my computers. And after that, we will ignore each other. My btc wallet address for transaction: bc1q7mz8ceyurveque88wr2hvhnkffgwrdkgt049pk In case you don't realize how to transfer money and what Bitcoin is. Then type in the Google "Get btc". I give you two working days to transfer the money. The time launched monitoring automatically once you opened up this message. I'll receive an alert the minute this email is open. Don't aim to look for aid, as the wallet address can't be traced, address the letter came from & can not be traced also and generated digitally, hence there isn't any point in texting to me. Do not make an attempt to contact the police & some other protection solutions, and should you choose to do, your personal information will undoubtedly be revealed. Switching security passwords in social networks, e-mail, and devices isn't going to help you, since all the information has already been downloaded to my servers. Best of luck and don't do something silly. Give some thought to your foreseeable future. This person is in Bolivia. I don't get a lot of spam from Bolivia, but I really don't know unless the email address says so. If you don't know, the .bo in the email address tells the country it originated from. .bo = Bolivia. <><><><> Mike Wallace Selection from press photo archive. DDTJRAC 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. 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This is Pacific Coast Highway showing Huntington Beach oil wells. Back in the day, California used to be #2 in oil production in the USA, just behind Texas. CA does not even rate in the top 5 now. The top five crude oil-producing states and their percentage shares of total U.S. crude oil production in 2022 were: Texas 42.5% New Mexico 13.3% North Dakota 8.9% Colorado 3.7% Alaska 3.7% https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/where-our-oil-comes-from.php It is always hard to date things for the archivist when no dates are marked on the originals. Cars can help date things. The cars shown here are from mid 1920s. I saw another photo that was being sold from this collection of the Brea oil fields in CA that was dated 1927. So that gives some time frame. <><><><> 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 had posted my 3144 page book disassembly thread at a photo forum. They poo-pooed the BW scans because they have some transparency due to the nature of the thin paper. Consequently, some of the printing on the verso shows through. They recommended I use a black backer. Well, I'm not new to scanning or black backers. I've been scanning since the late 1990s. And I've experimented with black backers from many years ago. The black backers do cut the transparency way down. But the tradeoff is they do not reproduce the original faithfully. You just have to pick which way to go with this type of job. Poor quality color and white reproduction scans with less transparency or a faithful reproduction with more transparency. You can work on the black backer scans in post. But that only goes so far. And to do post on 3144 scans is too much for me. Batch processing never seems to do the job on these vintage scans and there are always problems. So that slavish job of post processing 3144 scans would be for someone else. And that someone else would hopefully be getting paid to do that job. Here are some test scans with white, black and various shades of gray backers. The top of the scan shows the type of backer used. The file name also tells which backer was used. The light gray backer does the best job with reproduction other than white. But if offers the most transparency of the dark backers. Another problem beside off-color reproduction with using colored backers is the originals on this job barely fit the scanner. Very little wiggle room. Some of the type can be tight to one side or the other as well as the top. If the scanner had a dedicated dark backer that would help with this problem. But when you position the original off the edge of the scanner trying to split the difference and then have to hand overlay a backer on it, the original invariably moves. You end up scanning and rescanning the same original over and over again trying to get it right. That is fine for a handful of scans, but not for 3144 flatbed scans. Download these files so you have a library of test scans. And if you do use colored backers for scans, make sure you are happy with the post job to make them look acceptable. If you have a sheetfed scanner and use the 'scan both sides' option, sometimes that helps with reducing transparency. It just depends on the original. And a copy stand can help with transparency. But copy stands offer their own issues. Experiment to find what works best for you. Examples of using white, black and gray backers to reduce transparency when scanning 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

This file will have 3144 scans in it. Along with backups on drives, every 550 scans or so I make a DVD to physically back it up. I use a color marker page to distinguish the set from future scans. Seeing a color marker helps when dealing with thousands of files like this. Once scans are complete the whole collection goes on M-Disc Blu-ray and an archival Blu-ray. I just like 2 different discs to diversify things. M-Disc DVD is pretty $$ or I'd make the smaller backups on them as well. But I use AZO DVD. If kept in the dark AZO DVD is good for 15 - 30 years. If kept in the sun, AZO DVD's are dead in a few weeks. And all Blu-ray are not archival. Some are pretty crappy. Verbatim makes the best archival Blu-ray discs. Preferably the Japanese made discs. The budget brands of Blu-ray I only use for temp work. Not archival at all if the sun hits them. Just a tidbit of info for you about optical discs. If you want to start using color marker pages, here is a collection of them. Colored, White, Gray And Black Page Collection 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

When cutting up a book to scan there are a number of battles to deal with. One is copyright. The other one is defacing a book. Only you only can decide which way to proceed...for the greater good or the greater right. Bound book was +/- 3.75" thick. Cover was cut loose by cutting through the end sheets. Individual sewn book signatures were cut loose and further disassembled from there. Edge photo of cut binding shows the crooked cut this guillotine cutter produces. Old school guillotine cutters produced square cuts. From my limited experience, modern imports in this price range do not. This type of guillotine cutter is only useful if the gutter of the book is wide. I've tried 3 different cutters of this style, and none of them produced square cuts. If the book has a narrow gutter, this cutter may cut into the text or illustrations of the book when disassembling the book due to the crooked cut it produces. Books with narrow gutters have to be disassembled by hand. The guillotine cutter photo is from the internet and used under the auspices of fair use. Photo of a rotary paper cutter used to disassemble pamphlets, magazines and booklets. The rotary paper cutter is also useful to standardized paper width to run through a sheetfed scanner. Example scans from disassembled book, which is the bible of all things hand tools and hardware from 1923 - The Shapleigh Wholesale Hardware Catalog. The book was hand scanned at 300dpi (BW) to 600 dpi (Color). A 300-dpi scan can be made in 10 seconds on my flatbed scanner. A 600-dpi scan takes 23 seconds. Time difference is not normally a big deal. But multiply the time savings x 3144 scans and it adds up. Working 7 days a week part-time, this project will take 3.5 to 4 weeks to complete. And that is for raw scans. For 600-dpi scans it is 7.5 to 9 weeks for scanning this project part-time. Post cleanup work will add a lot more time to the project. A sheetfed scanner was not useful for this project. The catalog's paper is thin which produces wrinkled paper issues on the scans. Also, the ink used in the book is matte black which transfers to the black ink to the scanner rollers. This will leave marks on the pages that run down the full length of the page like black tire tracks. Lastly the book is old and dirty. Dirty originals lead to lines on your scan when using a sheetfed scanner. A speck of dirt on a flatbed scanner, is a speck of dirt. A speck of dirt on a sheetfed scanner is a white or black line that runs down the entire page. For more info on scanning techniques see: NSFW SHOOTOUT…Flatbed Scanner vs. Sheetfed Scanner vs. Copy Stand Photography – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II <><><><> 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 started taking short road trips after I got my license at 16. I'd take day trips to Desert Hot Springs, Indio and 29 Palms. I had visited them as a kid when my family visited friends there. From there I took an overnight drive to Yosemite. I had a little VW bug. I got sleepy driving home at 2 AM, so pulled over on the highway to sleep. I slept in the back seat all jammed up. Then I took some day trips to the Sequioa's and Tiajuana. I was pretty broke, so no motels. Back then they didn't have restrictions on new licensees like they have now. Once you got your license...you could just drive! I didn't get into longer road trips until I got a cheap van. I guess all the early road trips I took instilled a nostalgic note in me when it comes to road trip films in the film archive. Recently I came across a fantastic 16mm home movie road trip film series called "All 48 in our 88 in 58." Sadly, I found out about the series after all the reels were sold except 1 reel, which I acquired. The collection was broken up and sold to different buyers over a number of months. Too bad it was not kept intact and sold as a collection. Here are some frames from that film. (All photos are from the seller of the film.) I always love when the road trip reels have progress maps in them. This filmmaker was pretty talented as far an amateurs go. He had nice comp, focus and exposure and a dash of creativity. That is all you can ask for! This reel was #9 of the series. Who know how many reels were in the series to cover all 48 states. If you look closely, you can see the name of their expedition on the back on their Olds 88 station wagon. As a bonus, I got some footage of a cable shovel on the road trip reel. Steam and diesel cable shovels are another area of collection in the archive. Lots of roadside attractions in the road trip reels! Looks like they did lots of camping, but maybe it is just a break for lunch. I wonder if they stayed in motels or camped all the way? The wife was in high heels a lot of the time. But she had changed for the cookout. That is the problem when a film series is broken up, you just have to guess. The wife would get out there in the fields, even in high heels. Maybe she is picking up a memento here...dunno. I got lots of other road trip films in the archive. Hopefully I will get a scanner someday. I got millions of feet of fantastic films! And if not, the best a person can hope for is that a picker gets ahold of them and they get resold on eBay if they kick off. That doesn't mean they would ever be online for viewing, but it beats them all being trashed in the nearest dumpster. Just never know how things will go. That is why I started to put up a few frames of the exceptional films online. I try and preserve something from them in case they all get trashed. You know the deal...something is better than nothing. It had just occurred to me this year to start saving the frames used in the online sales to include in the film description folder in the master film inventory. My preference would be to include a film sampler of the entire reel in the folder, but you need a scanner to do it. If no sampler is available, then a few snapshots of a film is good to have. A sped-up film sampler is a fantastic tool to have when you have thousands of home movies to deal with. They are good to have for any movie and not just home movies. But home movies are especially hard to deal with when they have no central theme. Here are examples of films sampler experiments I did to show you what I mean. Sampler experiments were made with still frames as well as by speeding up the film. There is a sweet spot that gives you a decent snapshot of a film along with being fast. Medical films - explicit content Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine <><><><> 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

When scanning gloss stock that is warped it is hard to get a good contact with the scanner glass. In this example the warped gloss stock produced a rainbow type of defect while scanning. Weighting the scanner lid can help get good contact with the original. Foam backer board must be used under the scanner lid as the flatbed scanner lid provides poor contact. 18 pounds of weight was used here. If you go above 22 - 24 pounds on the scanner lid, an Epson V600 scanner may break. Every scanner is different; you check its weight limits out for yourself. Unweighted scan of RPPC Crop of unweighted scan defect area. Crop of weighted scan defect area. Full report: Scan With Rainbow Defects Weighted / Unweighted Comparisons 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

This was lost for about 6 years. Just found it yesterday. I scanned it right away. It could get lost again instantly. I've done it before. It all depends on shelving. A place for everything and everything in its place. But you need space and shelving! The queen wasn't afraid to get into the muck. At least when she was a young gal. Queen Elizabeth II In WW2 as a mechanic Google <><><><> 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

No matter how you slice it...film collecting is messy business. Sure, if rich you can match your cans, barcode, have lots of horizontal or vertical film shelves and temperature-controlled film vaults...but it still boils down to film cans or reels on shelving...or the floor. And when you run out of shelving, you use the floor for shelving. I found this photo on the internet, along with the rest of these photos. This guy titled it reorganizing film, so maybe he has the shelving, and the floor storage is just temporary. 35mm is for the big boys. I just deal with 8mm and 16mm. Temporary or not, floor storage is very common for film collectors if you are short on space or shelving. It is common to see film jammed on shelves any way they can fit. Here is a smaller collector and is neater about it in his man cave... In the old days they made film shelving to store film vertically. But they are very rare to come across nowadays and they cost $$ when you do find them. For me it has been a lifetime of being short on space. Space cost $ and I've always worked on a shoestring budget, consequently I have always been short on space. Even growing up I had no space as a kid. My parents didn't have a lot of $ and I grew up in a 1 bath 4 room house in L.A. My bedroom was a foldout bed in the living room. An old gal down the street saw some of my film archive and said I was a hoarder. Some of my films being organized from M-R... I told her I'm not a hoarder, I'd just short on space. I've got a few million feet of film and if I had more space and shelving the same thing, she called hoarding, would not be so jammed up. So, if I am a hoarder, it is being a 'hoarder by design' and not by desire. I rather have tons of space and shelving...but I don't. A real hoarder fills up any space they get no matter how large. That is the acid test. Anyway, she inspired me to expand my shelving for cine' film with 3 or 4 more 6-foot-tall chrome wire shelving units. I don't have that much room for them, but I can put them on casters and double stack them. When I need something from the rear shelf unit, I pull out the shelf unit in front of it. I am not really a film collector; I'm a film archivist. I don't necessarily want the films; I just want decent digital scans of the films. My goals changed in 2023 from maintaining a physical archive to becoming a digital archive. But it is a benefit to education as well as the archival record when you can handle, inspect and smell the films versus just dealing with scans. And in the big picture, it is hard to get rid of everything even if you want to go all digital. It takes lots of time to dispose of things properly unless you just trash it all in a dumpster. 16mm IBT Dye Transfer Technicolor Lab Head DDTJRAC <><><><> 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 found this while cleaning out my mom's garden shed after she died in 2010. I must have forgotten it at her house when I moved out. The shed was pretty old and rickety and leaked. Consequently, the magazine got mold damage and stunk pretty bad. I was going to trash it, but it had sentimental value to me. It was the oldest surviving photo mag I had bought since getting into photography in 1969. I recall buying it on one of the families regular Friday night food shopping trips. I think it was either a Ralph's or Von's near National and Overland in L.A. When the family went shopping, I would head for the magazine rack and read everything I could on photography. This mag impressed me with all the portfolios of the photographers of the day, so I bought it. But usually, I would just read magazines at newsstands and get books from the library to save my $ for film and chemicals. I had wrapped it in 4 layers of plastic sleeving and kept it that way until last week. (You could still smell the mold with 2 or 3 sleeves.) A couple weeks ago I started to give it some microwave radiation to prepare it for scanning. After 6 microwave treatments it still stunk, but it was doable to handle for scanning. I didn't need it perfect; I just wanted to scan and trash. No telling how much microwaving it would need to make it perfect. It tells you; you don't tell it when it is ready. But eventually the microwave wins if you got the patience. And you can't rush it, or you scorch the paper. Here you go... Popular Photography Annual 1972 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

Internet Archive: Inside $621 Million Legal Battle by Record Labels Major record labels have sued the online library Internet Archive over thousands of old recordings, raising the question: Who owns the past? <><><><> 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 haven't watched it, but from what I gather they would use remote control drones for target practice in WW2...but am not exactly sure. These are screen shots from the seller of the film. The goddamn 'pay by the second' stock footage people would have loved to get this one. They are always pestering me after I beat them out of a film on eBay. They write me or have the eBay seller write me to offer 'free scans' if I will sign away rights to them to sell it...by the second. **(obscenity removed)** them! I hate stock footage people. Sure, we need them to see some of history. But you can only see it...if you pay by the second. Stock footage people make films unaffordable for the average Jane, Joe or zir to buy. I always enjoy telling them NO, I am not interested. If they were not in it for the $, then sure they can have a film to scan for free. Or if I had a decent scanner, I'd give them a 4K scan for free. Money and profit have nothing to do with my work. But I check them out thoroughly to make sure they are not in it for the $$. The only time money enters the picture with me is when I ask myself if I have enough money to do a project or acquire something. In any case, I still would never give a film to someone to scan without a big deposit. Or they would have to prepay for me getting a high-grade timed 4K scan from a commercial scanner. I've dealt with tons of people over the years. People are getting worse when it comes to honesty and ethics, not better. Now, it is not like I'm some sort of purist that thinks money and profit is evil. Money is stored energy. You need money to operate. But chasing profit can destroy the spirit. Like is short and I'm old. Consequently, I only like to work on projects I want to. I don't want to be working on crappy projects other people want me to work on just for $$. I did plenty of that work when I was younger. Thoreau sums it up... "Trade curses everything it handles; and though you trade in messages from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business." This film also insirped me to figure out a way to distinguish important films in the archive. I printed up a bunch of 5 star red labels and can see them easily now. I used to use a piece of red artists tape, but I like the red stars better. <><><><> 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

50 spam emails received in 5 hours! This was 2022. That was about the height of spam email barrages. It has gotten a lot better since then. Maybe AI fixed AOL? Don't know. It is not a big deal to me because SPAM email is just one of the thousands of areas I work in with the archive. This is what happens when you put your email address out there. Around 2021 I stopped archiving these types of emails individually. I would only archive them in bulk amounts when something notable like this happened. Individual spam emails would only be archived when they were of a more personal nature with some time and thought put into them. I got into collecting spam way back, but it was not early enough. I may have started around 2017, but I missed a lot of good spam emails from back in the day. I was getting agitated from all the spam email and one day I decided to archive it instead of getting mad. I had got an email similar to this one below around 2015-16, but I did not save it. I used the name of the email With Due Respect Beloved One to name an artist book I was doing. That spurred me into collecting spam. Years later I got a spam email by that same name. with due respect beloved one Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:20 JANET (j48174194@gmail.com) To:you + 1 more Details I know that this message will be a surprise to you, my name is Mrs. Janet Gay Markham, I am diagnosed with ovarian cancer which my doctor have confirmed that I have only some weeks to live so I have decided to handover the sum of ($3.5 Million Dollar) in my account to you for the help of the orphanage homes and the needy ones, Please kindly reply me here as soon as possible to enable me give you more information but before handing over my details to you please assure me that you will only take 30% of the money and share the rest to the poor orphanage homes. Thanks waiting to hear from you Mrs. Janet Gay I had heard people can rent spam email template and bulk email address lists to send out the spam. Seems true, I sometimes get the same exact spam email days in a row with only the sender's address being changed. <><><><> 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 have two super 8 films from 1978 and 79, where the footage was all processed at the same lab. Camera footage was Kodachrome 40 . I had not viewed the films in about ten years. Upon screening the the footage , which had all been perfectly exposed , now looks about 1 stop underexposed, with the colors obviously, now muted. It is apparent to me the film emulsion is degrading, my guess probably from insufficient stabilization in the original lab processing. I have Kodachrome 8mm films from the mid-60s that still look new. Has anyone experienced this? The film reels were stored in their individual closed plastic containers. I have now drilled holes to allow some air ventilation, although this has not been a problem with any of my films from the 60s. Has anyone encountered this? Any solutions to halt the degradation process? Thank you for any help.

Vaccumate was one of those film preservation treatments they did back in the day along with Vaporate. This sample of a Vaccumate treated film is marked with a 3. Maybe they had different versions. It is all just guess work. I could not find out anything about either treatment. Although you can't see it in the scan, the Vaporate film did seem to have a matte finish applied to the stock. I did not see any difference to Vacuumate treated film versus untreated film. <><><><> 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