[Frameworks] 16mm film looper

[lindsay mcintyre]

This guy makes loopers in Vancouver, BC
Sean Arden pardenarden at gmail.com



On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 7:49 AM Ugo Bo <ugobodibra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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