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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 4) Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-01-2015 03:47 PM                     I'll go with a Magnarc. The above photo it is from the non-operating side its missing the dowser handles. The hinges are correct for the rear door and it looks like the meter placement is also correct. I too have to much time on my hands today. Its been raining for 2 days and a storm is a brewin'.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-01-2015 04:16 PM                        Stone Age Technology  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-01-2015 06:30 PM                     Ah, Yes! The Flintstone Granite-o-graph. Note the un-trackable groove to the right of the needle. Grooves are definitely not spaced for maximum time on the disc, pre Columbia era for sure.  |  IP: Logged Randy Pryde Film Handler Posts: 32 From: Casper, WY, USA Registered: Feb 2013 posted 10-01-2015 09:34 PM                        I wonder how that would compare with RCA's infamous Dynagroove?  |  IP: Logged Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 10-02-2015 08:27 PM                     Also, this isn't authentic to scale either in that the curve of the grooves, at that level of magnification with an actual LP, wouldn't be very evident.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-03-2015 01:23 PM                        If it were supposed to look like Dynagroove, the size of each groove wall would vary according to the level of modulation in the grooves surrounding it. In some ways, I think Dynagroove got a bit of a bad press. I have around 10 Dynagroove LPs, and only one of them sounds totally egregious. I do most of my everyday listening on a Denon DP300 and Audio-Technica 440 cartridge, Cambridge Audio phono preamp and main amp, plus Wharfedale speakers. Although the cost of buying all those items (or equivalent) is probably around $1k now, they probably deliver an audio quality equivalent to an insanely expensive setup in the mid 1970s (the main period of Dynagroove). My British Decca Dynagroove pressing of Andre Previn conducting Walton's Symphony #1 sounds every bit as expansive and uncompressed as most of my pre-Dynagroove, 1960s Living Stereos. Maybe it's my hearing, but there's nothing wrong with it to my ears. Now as for DynaFLEX, I'd like to see anyone make one of those out of granite!  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-03-2015 01:33 PM                        Must be a hard rock recording, unless the record is made of iron ore in which case it would be heavy metal.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-03-2015 04:23 PM                         |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 10-09-2015 08:44 AM                     From Flickr via consumerist.com: One picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Unrelated, not the theatre in the picture, demolition has begun on the Abby Quad Cinemas building in West Milford NJ. It has been closed for for a few years now. Build in the mid 1970's, it is similar in design to the Jerry Lewis Cinemas of the period. It was featured on the cover of Boxoffice magazine in 1976 with an article describing it as the future of theatre design.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-20-2015 12:55 PM                         |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-21-2015 02:08 AM                         |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-03-2015 08:56 AM                        The bigger the glob the better the job...  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 11-07-2015 12:33 PM                     MGM Processing Lab - 1930's MGM Printing Room - 1930's - 4 Million Ft. of Printed Film per Week  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 11-07-2015 10:38 PM                     I found this Chart of Movie Lengths which seems kind of high for the 1930's discounting Films like "Gone with the Wind" Most of the B Pictures then were between 60 and 70+ minutes. I did a calculation using 90 minutes as the average and if MGM Printers were cranking out 4 Million ft. of Film per week, than that would be over 555 Prints. That seems pretty impressive for that time, however there were a lot of Movie houses back then... Check this out: someone's compiled the average runtime of each decade's Top 50 movies (http://www.infinitypoint0.com/60/imdb-film-length-project/) (as voted on by IMDB users, at least): 10s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 79 minutes 20s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 98 minutes 30s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 96 minutes 40s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 109 minutes 50s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 114 minutes 60s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 127 minutes 70s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 125 minutes 80s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 129 minutes 90s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 127 minutes 00s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 129 minutes Pretty interesting stuff. The biggest change is from the 10s to the 20s; I'm guessing the increasing popularity of "talkies"(1927 onward) probably had a lot to do with that. Also interesting to see that it's pretty much held steady for the last 40 years or so. So, what kind of conclusions do you think we can draw from this? That truly great stories take awhile to tell, and that early on we simply lacked the technology and production values to do so properly?  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 11-08-2015 12:55 PM                     quote: That truly great stories take awhile to tell, and that early on we simply lacked the technology and production values to do so properly? Technology perhaps, production values back then were FAR better than the garbage of the last 30 years or so. (especially the last 15 or so). There are also NO good storytellers left anymore (Quentin does do good stories but they are dark and violent). Hitchcock's North By Northwest is a great example of the old school way of telling a great story without use of foul language and gore. Now, a pic for your viewing pleasure, this is my yard last winter:  |  IP: Logged

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