Here is the picture of the slide reel I got in the box with a Rank Tutor that I bought on eBay.
Its a slide show designed to illustrate camping for the Girl Guides. When I saw it was Nitrate stock I nearly fell out of my canoe!!
I’ll be doing these studio tours during the Cinema Rediscovered Film Festival in late July at watershed (mainly).
They are tours designed to verbalise what I am doing on several levels. In this regard they are also performances and presentations about ideas, processes, thinking and working collaboratively.
There is an assumed ‘intrigue’ or ‘fascination’ with machines that often forms the basis of inquiries into or explorations of apparatus and historic mechanisms and this is especially true of ‘Cinema’ being principally an art that was an expression of/through/with technical apparatus.
Not in totality of course but a large part of its formations and developments were precisely applications of ‘tools’ that were in themselves defined by their own materiological conditions. Its my conviction that these tools don’t just disappear when Cinema decides to adopt a different toolset (semiconductor based currently) but rather they are free from the over riding economic and industrial restraints of the past and are never exhausted as creative instruments.
But they are also necessary for any future generation to understand the history of their use and their place in the working systems that frame their development as creative tools.
Alexander Horwath recently said, (p27 JPF 96 | 04:2017. FIAF)
“…the actual content of film….is inseparably bound to its writing instruments, its technological basis and material tools. Thus in the future….analogue films will remain fully understandable if analogue film, including its parts of which the film strip is only one, remains accessible as a working system”
Been spending a lot of time on the Oxberry making the digital scanning set up work better.
Test results are good depending mainly on the res of the scans, high res just means more processing later to compile photos into moving image sequences.
I’m doing some studio tours in July as part of the Cinema Rediscovered Festival . In these tours I will be showing people around my work spaces so they can see some of the machines I am fixing and also so they get have a hands on go at lacing cameras or projectors.
The details of my tour are here.
At the same festival I am also running a glass slide / magic lantern slide workshop at the great Curzon Cinema in Clevedon.
I have just come back from the Eye Annual Conference in Amsterdam which was themed this year as ‘Activating The Archive’ and I will be making some key interest posts here soon.
Also very pleased to acquire a 35mm camera that will shoot sound speed as well as single frame and this machine will form the basis of all my next practical projects.
I am also into the main practical /written research project for my MRes so there will be much activity over the next year.
