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

[Jeff Kreines]

The B&H “foot splicer” is still the industry standard for negative cutters today.  Amazing device. 

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff at kinetta.com
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> On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Buck Bito - Movette <buck at movettefilm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Bell and Howell's advanced foot-actuated splicer's patent was applied for in 1916 - so although I haven't found dates for earlier splicers, I feel there must have been simpler splicers available prior to that along the lines of the Bell & Howell 198A splicer design (although that particular model follows the introduction of 16mm film in 1923).
> 
> Here's the google patent link:
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US1275431A/en
> 
> And Brian Pritchard has a 1929 B&H pamphlet scanned that shows this type of splicer in the 3rd page:
> http://www.brianpritchard.com/B&H_Splicers.htm
> 
> -Interesting thread!
> 
> Lawrence "Buck" Bito
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> On 4/23/2020 9:16 AM, mstarkmcr at gmail.com wrote:
>> Many thanks for that George - i have some of these type of splicers but have never actually used one.
>> 
>>> On 23 Apr 2020, at 16:33, George, Sherman <sgeorge at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The Griswold cement film splicer was patented in 1922 and was the first splicer I used  in the early 1960’s
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