[Frameworks] Help: 16mm looper to rent - East Coast Options!

[Nicole Baker]

That is frickin' brilliant.  I once made a contained loop the right length
to just run through the projector and across the reels on its own, but it
was so short it was only a few seconds of footage.

Looked really cool though.

Nicole Elaine Baker
MFA in Visual Studies, 2019
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies
*www.magiklantern.com <http://www.magiklantern.com>*



On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:41 AM, jimmyschaus1 <jimmyschaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just ran the loop through a regular 16 projector and had the extended arm
> of a mic stand placed a couple feet behind the projector, perpendicular to
> it, and looped the back part of the loop around that.  Adjust the distance
> of the stand from the projector to effect the tautness.  Made one big loop
> that went round and round.  Took a cue from audio tape looping techniques
> I've seen at experimental music gigs lol.  Just put another object
> somewhere that can take up the slack and voila.
>
> Not the safest bet--the material the mic stand's made out of isn't
> abrasive but also its not designed for celluloid running smoothly over it
> for hours on end.  You could end up with some scratches.  But if you really
> want to do the loop and can't acquire a proper looping projector, it
> works.
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Nicole Baker <nebaker at pnca.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jimmy Schaus,
>> Could you elaborate on how you set that up?  It sounds like a really
>> useful trick!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:54 AM jimmyschaus1 <jimmyschaus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I used the arm of a mic stand to take up the slack of the loop and just
>>> a regular 16 projector for an art show once, worked pretty well!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:37 AM Margaret Rorison <
>>> margaret.b.rorison at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Friends,
>>>>
>>>> A student of mine is looking to show a 16mm film in a Juried show at
>>>> her school in Baltimore, MD.
>>>>
>>>> Can you recommend any professional places that would rent a looper for
>>>> a reasonable price.
>>>>
>>>> ​I have a beautiful handmade looper made by Kenny Curwood- but I am not
>>>> able to lend this and wanted to see what other options there are for
>>>> renting one for a couple of weeks.
>>>>
>>>> thanks!
>>>> Meg​
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>> http://margaretrorison.com/
>>>> http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
>>>>
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