[Tig] More memories please

[Bob Kertesz]

>what happened with this system when you ran the film backwards- did
>the presets understand the direction of the film? I would guess not,
>and that you had to start from the beginning each time, or else count
>back manually and reload the preset to suit.


The color corrector had no way of knowing what direction the film was running
- it simply sensed when a metal tab passed by the sensor. If the client was
insane enough to say "let me see the previous scene again, please", there was
no rewinding unless you needed the experience splicing film and explaining why
the print looked like that afterward. Anyone who ran the Singer projector
backwards only did it the one time...

So you had to get up from the chair, go into the other room, fast forward the
film to the take up reel, manually rewind it on the bench while holding a
clean lint free rag on it, load it back on the projector, getting the loop
size exactly right or the trigger times from the metal tabs would be off,
return to the room, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, remember to reset the device so the
next tab would trigger event zero. If you forgot to do that, you had to get up
from the chair, etc. 

Dissolves were a nightmare because no matter where you put the sensor tab, the
client hated it.

Despite there being a limited amount of control, and generally much saner
clients than today, transfers would always take a while.

--Bob

Bob Kertesz
BlueScreen LLC
Hollywood, California
bob at bluescreen.com

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