Like anything in an interconnected world I start to prepare and finally paint the floor and get disracted by old electronics. This is the way. I blew a part on my sound follower a few years ago. I had turned it on to check functions and work out how it worked and then a little pop happened and a puff …

So after some successful use, the right hand side projector xenon lamp has started to refuse to strike. Each time it is struck it blows the 6amp fuse on the lamp house. Having experience with igniter units, tesla coils and the scary electrics involved I was fairly pessimistic about being able to fix this. Everything inside the lamphouse looked in …

These old cinema 35mm projectors are in St.James’s Hall in Kilbeggan, Eire. The plan is to somehow or other restore them to working order and maybe modernise the light sources as they both ran carbon arc lamphouses. see this special edition of REWIND (by the PPT) where the first projectors mentioned are simplex. In this publication are also very fine …

Really getting fired up and excited going through loads of resources at film labs website. I havent looked at their website for a while so am blown away by all the work thats gone into this. Theres literally everything there you need to shoot, develop, project, etc motion picture film. Amazing, great work guys, keep it up!!!

Im giving a talk at this festival. see below. I’m revisiting some of my research that came out of the work I did on digitising the Curzon Cinemas nitrate clips. This involved looking closely at the mechanical operation of flicker as it occurs in reality in a projector in a bid to resist the erasure of a film projectors presence …

This is my chance to do a proper job aligning, leveling and improving this machine. From previous set-ups I’ve learnt a lot about what is wrong with the design. Heres a load of snaps showing the awkward assembly of the projector on two steel rails that just bolt to the top of the main frame. This part of the machine …

Heres is an older oxberry camera block than the one mounted on my frankenstein optical printer. This camera has no rack over viewfinder. It has a voltage controlled movement and adjustable shutter angle. No viewfinder seems like a problem for a camera. How on earth can you compose, focus, even see what you are shooting? This camera will be used …

OK. So I am very happy with a new pair of 1000ft mitchell film magazines and here is one sitting on top of the animation camera. However, these mags have a wider base fitting known as NC (newsreel camera) and the camera uses one called GC which is smaller. Just waiting to hear from someone in LA who has an …