Category : Lab activity

Bauer P6 studio

Written on May, 09, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

Cleaning up and checking this old machine for a potential exciting assignment. This projector plays magnetic sound from 16mm as well as optical. As shown below its also a SEPMAG and COMMAG projector and the magnetic band is laced up on this ear side. This image shows something I always liked. This is the view down the optical light ‘lens’. …

camera as projector

Written on May, 06, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

So here is a camera being used as a projector, ie a light source is inside the camera body projecting through the gate where a piece of film is held. The left one has a 135mm (Apochromat, Kinoptik) lens BUT the right one has a cinema 35mm lens with focal length of 40mm. The image sizes are below. The camera …

light piece with spheres

Written on May, 06, 2016 by admin in Lab activity, pre-cinema

Here is a shot of the open studio light piece with shadows of ping pong balls configured to imagine a planetary event. The projector was a rank tutor with its normal lens removed and instead a 35mm cinema lens. The small ball is levitating, the large one also appears to be floating.

Trailers of Fury

Written on Apr, 09, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

Finally after years of effort our collection of 35mm Kung Fu trailers has been scanned and released by Severin. See the details at Severins site.

Found inches

Written on Apr, 09, 2016 by admin in Lab activity, things I'm doing, done and planning on doing

Frames found under the pedastol of the Kalee21 projector we have been using at the Cube Cinema since 1998 that was recently retired to make way for some modern machines. For an 18 year period I thought this small sample of wasted, discarded, lost or just dropped frames would make a good Archeo-Cube project. So I am going to scan …

cameraless test 2

Written on Apr, 09, 2016 by admin in Lab activity, things I'm doing, done and planning on doing

I’ve been doing more tests with film surface distress and a better set up to rephotograph. This frame shows the effect after only minutes exposure to the distressing agent. The circular area is about 5mm in diameter.

Nitrate to Nikon

Written on Apr, 06, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

Here is the basics of a small rig I am going to use to make digital copies of a small amount of Nitrate film found at the Cube Cinema a few years ago. The b/w positive print dates from 1947 and appears to be a short Charlie Chaplin film. I am going to have to build a base with X, …

About Nachleben, why this impossible word?

Written on Jan, 17, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

Mignon 35

Written on Apr, 28, 2015 by admin in Lab activity, VI, sound and audio projects

Nice acquisition, portable 35mm by Microcine, Italian. Planning on using it for Vi image/projection on 6th June at qujunktions Dark Matter event. Its meant to be portable and the handle suggests that one person could lift it up. One person can NOT lift it up and its the hardest to lace up 35mm projector Ive ever worked on.