[Frameworks] 1. when was the film splicer invented? (mstarkmcr at gmail.com)

[Robert Withers]

When I was working with 16mm film in the late ’60s we used two kinds of tape splicers for work print:
the ”Guillotine,” which cut with a metal side blade and the ”Rivas,” which cut with a metal blade and usually cut the splicing tape with a serrated plate on top of the splice in the middle of the frame. Pennebaker and maybe others redesigned Rivas splicers by attaching a small razor cutter that would cut the tape on the frame line, making a more-or-less ”invisible” splice. 
I think a Guillotine splicer was used in 35mm also.
For a permanent glue splice a ”hot splicer” was used in both 16mm and 35mm, which cut a frame with a metal block. You would lose a frame with each splice and the splice was visible unless used with black leader in the ”A & B roll” contact printing system.
What happened between the 1920s and the 1960s? I’ve seen that picture of Elizaveta Svilova but I’m curious about Peter Kubelka. 
Cheers,
Robert

Robert Withers
withersr at earthlink.net




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