[Frameworks] Frameworks Digest, Vol 65, Issue 2

[Bruce Cooper]

Eric,

  From reading your post I think you would like the films of Robert
Schaller, someone I went to school with in the 1990's.
https://www.robertschaller.org/film/

-B.C.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 5:39 PM Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:07 PM Fritz Robinson <fritzrobinson at outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I want to know from Eric in this post how he prepares his contact printed
>> strips for developing. Does he edit them together before sending film to be
>> processed. Will processors take undeveloped rolls of film that has been
>> edited. I don’t know if the glue or tape will withstand the process.
>>
>
> Hi Fritz,
>
> Thanks much for your interest. It's a little complicated to explain.
>
> Although my source materials, the etchings, were in strips, I contact
> printed onto 100 foot rolls of 3383
> <https://filmstocks.info/stocks/kodak-3383-vision-color-print-film>. At
> the time, Monaco, a local lab, would spool that stock onto daylight reels
> on request. I wouldn't be surprised if Mono No Aware does that today.
>
> I created a sort of split magazine from two 400 foot film cans, using tin
> snips to cut a slot across the height of the cans, spray painting the
> insides with matte black paint, lining the incision with black velvet to
> prevent emulsion scratching and light leaks. The cans were brought together
> so that the slots touched, and were then placed into a photographer's
> changing bag. I'd arrange the etchings, gels, guides on the light table
> with room lights on. I'd then switch off the lights and spool the print
> stock across the light table over the elements I'd arranged. I'd forgotten,
> but I think I made a very long, narrow sandbag that ran the length of the
> table to weigh things down, and then I'd do a quick flick on a
> spring-loaded switch to illuminate the fluorescent tube that was under the
> glass surface. Very brief. Then I would wind the exposed footage into the
> take up can, bring the cans together, put them into the changing bag, and
> turn the room lights on again before preparing the next strip.
>
> Repeat.
>
> (A better way to do this is to use a vacuum table that was once common for
> platemaking in the printing industry.)
>
> This was not inconvenient compared to what you're suggesting: splicing
> exposed footage together for a lab to process.
>
> I'm many thousand miles away from home and don't know that I have any
> detailed photographs of my setup. The interior image at
> https://erictheise.com/films/ shows the light table I used on the floor
> at left but it's probably too distant to be helpful.
>
> Hope the words make some sense.
>
> Eric
>
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