Been spending a lot of time on the Oxberry making the digital scanning set up work better. Test results are good depending mainly on the res of the scans, high res just means more processing later to compile photos into moving image sequences. I’m doing some studio tours in July as part of the Cinema Rediscovered Festival . In these …

So me, Rod, Hoppo and Richie managed to pull off our performance at BEEF and Brunswick Club Saturday just gone. I thought I’d write up a breakdown report of all the techniques, projectors and processes we devised and used. This is is aimed at myself as documentation but also, as I  believe in the spirit of open source and sharing, …

New 35mm gate from BB list, at first was loose and I was worried that perhaps a spring was missing. But I undid the film transport frame/sprocket and relocated the frame into its proper place. Now running like a dream. Need to fix take up motors on camera now………..

I have finally, after what feels like 10 years (prob 10 years since acquiring this machine) but is actually 5 years of storage battles, makeshift repairs, huge learning curves (electrics, relays, soldering, circuits, mechanics and optics) got to the point where this Oxberry-Neilson/Hordell bastard printer is working enough  to make tests to ascertain what still isn’t working. I know for …

More on the machine part I bought years ago. I have finally, after a bit more in depth research worked out that it is the basic mechanism from a Debrie Parvo L series camera.   Here is a link to a film of its manufacture and assembly. http://cinematographes.free.fr/videos/debrie-3.mov Heres some good photos of a complete one in the Malkames Collection. …

I am presenting at the Ghent Early Cinema Conference and will be showing my idea that Cinema design, the building itself may of played  a part in the adoption of narrative forms of cinema films, or those forms that were more story and duration based and required suspension of disbelief to read and enjoy. I will do this by sketching …

Heres 2 photos taken during a shutter test where the blade has been almost closed over and a very tiny slit is all that lets any light through. This would produce a shutter speed too fast for effective exposures (in convnetional use anyways). The LED light source illuminating the paper on the other side of the gate flickers and this …

Using a linear stage from Thorlabs and some basic metalwork I can now accurately position a digital camera or just the lens to line up with the camera. A bit of tweaking to get the relay lens bellows to fit. All that needs doing now is take up motor electrics, then I’m ready to try some film to film tests. …

Quick test scan off the printer of acid treated and burnt through short length of film. ST should be on right of course. 16mm     Lab leader I found. 35mm, sent to Matt Soar for possible inclusion in his project lost leaders   And my favourite, a video clip of film passing through the gate. And another clip I …