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Author Topic: Too much dirt in 16mm gate aperture Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-04-2002 05:51 PM                     I have a video clip of a 1965 animated Screen Gems TV logo clip. It shows a lot of dirt around the edges of the 16mm gate aperture. Also there is some damage to the film possibly resulting from what is mentioned above. On one of the frames,an area of the emulsion has been torn off. I think Mr. Pytlak & others can view & explain this clip. www.retromedia.tv/media/screengems.ram Also on the same retromedia.tv site, there is what I believe to be 35 mm perf buzz at the start of a 1969 NBC promo clip with the old peacock logo.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-04-2002 07:46 PM                     Ok Matthew I must ask, do you enjoy getting scared shitless watching the Screen Gems logo over and over? You seem to have some kind of biazarre fondness for it. (For the people who have no idea what I'm talking about, do a search for "screen gems".)  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-04-2002 08:04 PM                     No, not at all. Not scared of it.  |  IP: Logged John Anastasio Master Film Handler Posts: 325 From: Trenton, NJ, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-05-2002 07:37 AM                        The fact that you can see the aperture shows me that the transfer to video was improperly done. Yep, it's dirty. Yes, dirty pressure plates damage film. I'd be willing to bet that this video transfer wasn't done at a TV station. It's not even square with the frame. Your point is...?  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-05-2002 07:46 PM                     I honestly can't find figure out the point this time . I always do figure out what the the point is but now I can't. *******!!!!! It's not my fault that I can't figure out the point this time & I'm not mad at anyone but myself because of this dilemma of finding the point. Let someone else figure out the point correctly,please,being honest here.  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-06-2002 08:25 AM                     Is anyone else confused at this point?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-06-2002 03:38 PM                        Heck no!  |  IP: Logged Paul Cassidy Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 549 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2001 posted 07-06-2002 03:59 PM                        THE Point is ........ummmmmm.......ahhhhhh.....well I don,t know  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-06-2002 04:33 PM                        Can somebody tell Matthew that I found the point? It was in the last place I looked. It always is for some odd reason.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-07-2002 03:43 AM                        I think this all may be a conspiracy to force us to look for a point in all this when in fact there is none and we have all wasted .02 seconds of our lives.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-07-2002 03:57 AM                     I tried going back to 1965 and cleaning up that aperture and running some filmguard on the clip. They couldnt understand what filmguard was even after I tried to explain, so I just had to tell them to wait about 35 years and then everything would become clear. I got all the dirt off the aperture and off the film, but couldnt do much for the stripped emultion. Apparently my efforts were in vain, because when I got back to present time, I viewed the clip again and the dirt around the aperture, and on the film were there. My guess is they never cleaned that aperture again and transfered to video at a later time. I guess I should have showed them how to clean the aperture themselves so this wouldnt happen. Damn. Oh well. If anyone knows when the transfer was done, I will gladly go back and do it again, and finish the job this time. It doesnt matter how long it takes to find out when the transfer was done though. I have all the time in the world. It is a time machine, you know. ------------------ Find me online AOL: Dexter Caldwell yahoo!: dexter_caldwell "It is the opinion of the entire staff the Dexter is criminally insane."  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-07-2002 07:42 AM                     I t looks kile someone ignored the various thing on proper film/equipment use & care whether intentional or not What would cause a telecine or projector to tear off part of the emulsion,I don't know. Whoever did this should have cleaned the equipment & moved the machune back some to mask out the aperture edges.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-07-2002 02:44 PM                     Perhaps the person who was running the telecine equipment KNEW he was transferring the Screen Gems logo, realized it was one of the lamest and dull logos ever made, and as such came to the conclusion that it simply did not matter. Perhaps? I could buy it.  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-08-2002 07:57 AM                     ...or perhaps they were too scared of the logo to watch what they were doing.  |  IP: Logged

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