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Author Topic: Possible Projection Offer (this thread has gone way off topic ... no guarantees) Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-19-2005 08:01 AM                     Here here Monte! Shoe polish was only applied over the sprocket holes. Never over the picture or sound track. ...Rick  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-19-2005 12:30 PM                     quote: Rick Raskin Never over the picture or sound track. LOL - Whooops, I forgot to mention that when I made my line of "shoe polish", I made a clean line covering the area from sprocket hole to the edge of the film, or the SDDS track, then on the emulsion side only. Why the emulsion side only is that nothing sticks to the base side of the film whereas the emulsion absorbs anything wet. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-19-2005 12:58 PM                    shoe polish is evil and only ment for one thing......SHOES!!!!!!!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-19-2005 01:39 PM                     ...(lol) - but, hey in the mid 70's and heading off into the '80s, it was the THING to do - either have shoe polish, or the "sinful" opaque tape. I opted for the shoe polish since I loathed opaque tape. I remember seeing many an amateur ran booths with that trusty bottle of the Kiwi Nurses White Shoe Polish on the makeup bench ready to be used time after time. And still to this day, once in a great while, I still come across shoe polished prints which I now clean that stuff off since it was put on so gaudy. But this practice is getting very rare to see nowdays. Most have switched over to "Zebra", and the some still use yellow opaque. Gone is that horrible, gooey white opaque that would goo up everything in sight. What a mess to clean that stuff off the film rolls! (LOL!) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-19-2005 03:12 PM                     quote: Monte Fullmer: "...but, hey in the mid 70's and heading off into the '80s, it was the THING to do ..." Ya gotta remember us OFs geezin' out about when big reels meant 3 2000' reels splice together on a 6000' reel. After all, you could run a show with only one or two changeovers. For some OFs it meant plenty of extra time to sleep. (OF = Old Fart) ...Rick  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-19-2005 03:33 PM                    I never used it however I will admit I used to use tiny white avery dots and blooped the soundtack and marked the reel changes with them. I just coverd them with the splicing tape and punched holes in any that overlaped the sprockets. Worked great and really didn't effect the picture so long as you didn't put it on both sides. But if you had to use shoe polish or what ever why did you have to have so much on the film. 2 feet come on how about 3 inches.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-19-2005 04:21 PM                     quote: Darryl Spicer 2 feet come on how about 3 inches. I remember when we converted a 2k house to a 6k house by making our own 6k reel arms. using lag extention bolts to raise up the upper magazine frame, and to lower the lower magazine frame, made up new pulley belts. As for rewinding, it was using the Neumade hand cranks on the bench being raised the same way. I also had to retime the lamphouse carbon feed motors to take the three reel run a bit, but got that easily accomplished LOL - We "OF's" needed to see where the splice was at. 'sides, 2ft was the result of a good clean swipe across the edge with one stroke of the arm without stopping. I made shoepolishing a work of "art" - like an artist. I held the bottle a certain way so that the sponge applicator was at the right angle towards the surface of the film to where I can actually "guide" that applicance across the film in one stroke of the arm. ..have to show you how I used to do this sometime...it was pretty slick to do. (lol) -Monte -Monte  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-19-2005 08:30 PM                     So far off topic, in fact, that I'm locking it. Talk about your crappy film handling practices in the FHF. Just don't start a new thread.  |  IP: Logged

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