This subject has a deep fascination for me both as history and as a practical art. This attempt at a more long form post hopefully works and I will be coming back to it when I can with new research, results of practical experiments and other readings. Reading Craig Barron and Mark Cotta Vaz’s (1) great book about matte …
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In every moment of an analogue film projection, there is another mask, or matrix, or screen which is going to effect viewing and viewers in different ways than the perception of visually recognized cultural forms. This ‘FLICKER’ based screen is the total background field effect of an analogue image regardless of the content of ‘the image’. This screen is also …
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This isnt my photo but you can see here an interesting feature of a vistavision gate in a printer holding a standard 4 perf 35mm film strip. The ability to see the framelines top/bottom means that adjustments to new framing can be made very easily. There was an Oxberry vistavision gate for sale recently on a trade website and Im …
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Also here is my recent ‘MRES’ dissertation whose full title is DEVELOPING AND DEFINING AN EXPERIMENTAL ARCHIVE, PROCESS, PROBLEMATICS AND PITFALLS. I received a 62 with merit for this believe it or not……. I can see many shortcomings, errors of thinking and failures when reading this now and I will be producing my own written commentary on it this spring. …
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I quickly looked at worm filmwerkplatz’s Oxberry when I was in Rotterdam. It is a beastly machine, felt like being in an empty room with a Bull. My phone is broken hence the out of focus image. Im quite jealous of all those proper moving stages. Each one with a micrometer scale. Also those things are built ‘so’ well, and …
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One interesting thing is how the fixing bolts for the blade part to fix to the base corresponds with the point of the angle of each segment of the shutter.
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What does a 3 bladed shutter do differently from a 2? Nothing apart from project each frame 3 times, producing an image flicker frequency of 72hz. A 2 bladed shutter produces 48hz. If we chop off one of the blades in a 2 bladed shutter (not the pulldown mask obviously, unless we want this effect) we will get 24hz, …
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Im trying to devise a way of describing flicker that is mathematically accurate. Frame rates as we understand them for example 24fps or 18fps are only one aspect of the whole picture delivery system. Firstly, often a frame is delivered twice, or three times so this produces a different phonomemalogical figure, say 48fps. But this figure only counts the …
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