Random Films from the Archive - Objectivity 160 

I don't think I would (think it was boring and uninteresting). It seems like a dream job to me.

They should've gone and got the film reel and put it on that machine.

I mean, I KNOW, right?

I strongly dislike this. It's interesting that people can feel exactly the opposite to you sometimes!

That's a really cool idea.

There is a RU-vid channel, British Pathe, that hosts a lot of old newsreels. You should check it out.

Why cable channel, when you have YT?

Look up Jeff Quitney youtube channel. That guy posts old news and instructional films all day long. A gold mine if you like that kind of stuff.

The RU-vid channel Periscope Film has lots of old newsreels, training films and ephemeral videos.

Maybe we need an Objectivity 2 channel, similar to Numberphile 2, for the hidden gems that don’t make the main channel!

Because it had'nt been digitised yet. I suspect getting the actual film out and projector stuff etc was too much hassle.

Crank up the Steenbeck!

SHE'S AN ARCHIVIST

I suspect because they don't wish to wear out physical copies like that, and prefer not to play them back unless for the purposes of digitising or such.

she is so adorable :D

I 2nd that motion

It's on their website found in the description

Cheers!

The guy invented the word so he can spell it as he wishes.

Oh yeah, I didn't Americanize it on purpose LOL that does make it funnier though (I'm drunk)

I had forgotten about bicolour typewriter ribbons. My. it takes you back.

Ugh, american writing of "-ised"; get out!

The digital copying can save a separate file without lines. I guess that they just wanted to preserve the original exactly as found, but anyone can clean it with the right software.

To paraphrase Wikipedia: The procedure is called wet-transfer film gate, or wet gate for short, Submerging the film in a liquid with a suitably matched refractive index (usually Perchloroethylene) reduces the effects of scratches on the film by reducing the refractive effects which divert light passing through the scratched part of the film. This makes it acceptable in places like archiving where digital manipulation is out of the question. Unfortunately, it only works on real scratches not copies of them.

The wet gate was basically the only way to remove scratches before digital tools became available and only had any effect if the treated film had the physical original scratches because otherwise the liquid would have nowhere to be absorbed into. Usually when I see old films processed for bluray release (by that, I mean what I see in the special features if it details the restoration process) they usually combine the wet gate with a light automatic spec and dirt removal and gate weave stabilisation in computer and if time (and money) allows, they will then tackle bigger tears using more manual digital tools and lastly restore tone and color (sometimes even grain is re-added to match the surroundings to hide some major retouching work) . In really bad cases there are scanners that gently pull the film in a constant velocity in order to not tear up badly stored films reading the image line by line instead of photographing the frame in one go. I've also seen some great results with digital ice equipment (if I recall the name correctly) with that they photograph the same frame both with visible color and then with infra red (or was it ultra violet?) To get a matte that showed only the dirt and scratches as white on black. With it they could then do very agressive restorations on tiny areas to get rid of stuff. So, yeah there's a lot of things that can be done if time and money is no object. But for the newsreels they will probably have to stick with minor automatic restoration.

Wiki also mentioned using ultrasonic film cleaners before a wet-gate transfer. Digital ICE is a combination of hardware and software developed by Kodak (a moment of silence please) for removing defects like dust and scratches when scanning photographic slides and negatives. It's still available on some slide and negative compatible flatbed scanners. You were right, it uses infra-red light to re-scan the film since most color film is transparent to IR but the dust and scratches aren't.

Wet-gate is the defacto standard for proper film reproduction, it's not a 'special' or 'rare' method that is just available in certain parts of the world, even in the old days. Cheaper reproduction companies would save costs by not using wet gate, this is what happened to the 'full' Metropolis copy that was rediscovered in Bueones Aires 10 years ago. It was copied from 'dangerous' nitrate film in the 50s without a wet gate and thus the already heavily scratched original was copied with scratches and dirt that could never be fully repaired (although the Blu-Ray has at least a 'watchable' restoration).

It's perfectly cromulent

Are you sure about that? :) - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZcaPzQlqSuM.html

Keep up, keep up. Wacky kids use Avid, their parents use Steenbeck and their _grandparents_ use the Movieola.

I always edit or copy my films while listening to new fangled jazz music on the Vitrola.

One of my best days was when my 8 plate Steenbeck arrived. My Moviola was especially superb at tearing up sproket holes.

carver3419 That's what that perf fix tape is for.

jmchez The irony is that the Moviola was named for the Victrola. But I somehow think you're just trying to give us a needle.