[Frameworks] "140 different wipes that are available"

Jeff Kreines jeff at kinetta.com
Wed Dec 6 20:37:08 UTC 2023


That’s a great book for old-school (for me current) film techniques.  I love wipe charts.  You could get custom wipe mattes made.  The filmmaker Andrew Lugg had a 5 minute left—to-right wipe matte made for his film Gemini Fire Extension.

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff at kinetta.com
kinetta.com


> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:20 PM, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This figure appears in my copy of Roberts and Sharples' A Primer for Film-Making (1971)–
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> <image.png>
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> –and I have questions.
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> Was there a company in the business of selling matte kits to labs? "140" seems so specific and yet so arbitrary.
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> Has anyone ever come across a reel demonstrating all or most of these wipes? A few I find perplexing, many I recognize or can imagine, but seeing them in action would be instructive.
> 
> Happy to read any discussion this provokes, thanks.
> 
> Eric
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