Category : Lab activity

Written on Jan, 30, 2015 by in

A piece of old scrap I bought online actually looks like an ingenious 35mm step printer with very similar movement to the big Matipo machine built by Debrie. Its meant for very short lengths of film and might have been adapted for use as an analysis projector at some point.  Anyway another project to add to the Lab list.  

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Written on Oct, 06, 2014 by in

                            Found this logo in an old Cinematographer magazine from the 70’s. Think it would be a good logo for Nachleben

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Extremely pleased to be offered the Imperial War Museums Debrie 35mm step printer. This machine was built in the 1930’s and has been used by IWM to transfer all their Nitrate films to safety film.

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Written on Sep, 07, 2014 by in

We did a lightshow on Saturday in Brimingham at the BMI. We made a few new tricks including use of rank tutors and getting colour from nothing on the OHPs with polarising filters. Here is a picture of another new thing using carousel projectors and restricted light.                           …

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Written on Apr, 10, 2014 by in

                  Amsterdam March 31st – April 3rd 2014   The future of Cinema may well look like the EYE in Amsterdam. All windows, views, vistas, angles, exploded shapes, discovery, a perfect staging of Cinema and Architecture. Once in Cinema 1 though its clear that the basic same arrangement is the same wherever …

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Heres the light show as we ended up setting it up. On several tables infront of the stage, effectively as the front row. Operating the OHPs meant standing up and this probably caused some obstruction to visibility for some of the audience. At the bottom left of the picture is the 16mm modified to hand cranked which featured in the …

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Here are some images of stuff in studio in preparation for the MV / EE tour which we start next week. I will be posting blogs for each show hopefully. Our basic set-up consists of 4 x kodak 35mm slide projectors on dimmers, 2 Epidiascopes using various lights/lamps as projections, a prism beam splitter and prism (in reverse), 2 OHP …

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Here are some frame grabs from Esther Campbells film working of a James Blackshaw track. Was shot on an Arri for first 2 days, then I used a Bolex on the last day. I will post a link to the finished piece when its available. Really happy with the results especially this shot where we crane down from high in …

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‘Phantom Walls’ was the title of a piece of work I made for the gallery space run as part of my old studio building on Lower Stokes Croft. The finished installation consisted of Sculptural element, sound playback and low frequency presence. The darkened room provided an ideal setting and a false wall behind which to install the CD and cross-over …

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This is the kit I’m currently carrying with me in Haiti. I’m here as one of a three people team from the Cube Cinema forming the current field team for HKKP. I’m planning on using the free time I have here to document what I can about the people and places we see, a people struggling to rebuild their lives …

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