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Author Topic: Projector Loops Iben Jimenez Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Cayey, PR, US Registered: Mar 2006 posted 04-12-2006 10:32 AM                     What is the purpose of the loops of film in the projector?  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-12-2006 10:35 AM                     The purpose of the loops in the projector is to keep the fillm from slamming tight against parts during the intermitten's pull down/stop cycles.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-12-2006 11:16 AM                     Woodville Latham in 1895 patented the "Latham loop" to allow slack above and below the intermittent motion in the picture gate. Previous to this film projection equipment ( Edison peephole viewer and camera ) had no "slack" loops which limited the length of presentation and made installing a large light source for projection impossible  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 04-12-2006 01:14 PM                     In other words Iben, if there were no loops the film would rip apart because when the intermittent stops the film in the gate 24 times each second the rest of the projector is still moving.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Case Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Sydney NSW Australia Registered: Aug 2003 posted 04-12-2006 07:12 PM                       Apart from feed and take-up, it is essential that film moves perfectly steadily through the analogue optical sound head: just as esssential as its intermittent movement through the gate.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-12-2006 07:40 PM                     ..but, it's fun watching the "rolling loop" mechanism of the horizontal 15/70 IMAX machines - how the loop starts and being created by compressed air in the rotor and rolls along until it disappears at the end when the film exits the rotor... This method is tons easier on film since there is no tension and stress due to the vertical action of the conventional gate and trap setup. Here is a story on the "Latham Loop" mentioned in the "Motion Picture Projection", by James R. Cameron (not the director), 1943: [IMG]http://www.film-tech.com/uploads/uploads05 03/pg-22-x3.jpg[/IMG] -Monte [ 04-12-2006, 10:03 PM: Message edited by: Monte L Fullmer ]  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-18-2006 05:53 AM                        Even today you can get chills reading this....what an incredible landmark those first exhibitions must have been and what the audiences must have thought seeing moving pictures for the first time. Same with the first Todd-A-O and the first 3D and the first CinemaScope, etc. You think anyone will get chills or even care when or where the first movie was ever projected using a 1.3K digital DLP projector? PS -- Monte, Thanks for the post.  |  IP: Logged

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