[Frameworks] 16mm film looper

[Ugo Bo]

Il giorno gio 26 ago 2021 alle ore 10:18 Nicole
<nicole at magiklantern.com> ha scritto:
> If you do not mind, I would very much like to see a drawing of the method you described!
> Thank you for sharing.

happy to share, see attached files: instructions and video. The steel
wire gizmo in front of the projector is just optional, but helps to
keep film braces not touching.

To avoid scratches a good point is always to lube your film. But about
what to use to do it opinions are very different!

Il giorno gio 26 ago 2021 alle ore 13:59 Julian Antos
<julian at chicagofilmsociety.org> ha scritto:
> YMMV, but a good looper should not scratch film after even several hundred runs. Not that it doesn't happen, but they can be made to run very gently.

Yes, but the Poor-Man-Looper is free (just the cost of two reels)

But in any looper scratches happen because film is fed and pulled out
at the same speed, and every loop turns at a slightly different
rotational speed in respect to the adiacent one. So every loop always
slides against the others. Closed loop platter systems avoids this by
shaping the loops in a sort of flower shape - see here:
https://www.maxluxitalia.com/cgi-bin/pdf/schedetecniche/piatto_kinoton_st2000.pdf,
but not many projectionist loved it!

cheers
Livio
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