From: JEFFREY PAULL (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 03 2009 - 19:43:50 PST
I forgot to mention -
Loops can be virtually as long as you like, if you provide both the room and guiding spools to allow a really big loop to move freely.
The "spools" can be just about anything that allows the film to slip past, and prevents the film from sliding off and falling.
Coat hangers, tho way wider than 16mm film, are OK, and, if you like, you can be playful both inventing carrying "spools" to keep the loop loose and open,
and how you might arrange the travel path of the loop as part of an installation.
- Any short loop should still be long enough that you thread it through the upper and lower sprocket wheels.
- Don't make a loop so short the pull-down claw is the only thing moving the loop. It's tough on the sprocket holes to take all the strain of that start-stop-start moment of the claw.
- Short loops make more cycles per minute than do longer loops, so will scratch, dust up, etc. faster.
- Long loops expose much surface to the air in the room, and, so, to dust in the room. Plan ahead.
- Expect the scratches and hair-in-the-gate to reveal themselves. That's why video on hard drive or flash drive is so good: no dust, always in focus, abolutely steady on the screen, no deterioration.
- As dirt particles accumulate in the gate over time, they may sit there and scratch the film surface as it continues to move through the gate. Fact of life.
- Projectors can drift out of focus as they continue to run and heat up the gate.
- Ask as the lab if there are still, in 2009, coatings that toughen the film and reduce the appearances of scratchs, etc.
JP
On Tue 03/03/09 21:28 , redmond entwistle email suppressed sent:
> Hi frameworkers,
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> I'm looking to borrow a 1000ft split reel from someone in the 5 boroughs
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> many thanks,
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> Redmond
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