16mm Film

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This is test footage with a new camera system I’m developing. Using black and white negative, I aim to produce color film. This first test uses BW film to records two of the three primary colors: red and green. It is similar to early color methods of the 1920s. It is limited in its tonal range, but demonstrates the system works. There are still some alignment and sync issues, but I hope to work them out. This footage was shot with two Reflex Bolexes, using Double X 16mm BW Neg. Enjoy!

Color + Modulation is EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED by Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD, and/or other titles distributed by Microcinema, go to: www.microcinemadvd.com Color + Modulation is a collection of eight ambient 16mm films that have been painstakingly hand painted frame-by-frame and digitally manipulated on a desktop computer. Working with acrylic & metallic paints as well as with a pallet of permanent ink pens and spray paint canisters this film project took 7 years to complete. These Film Paintings have been described as both visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful as each of these movies transform ones video screen into an abstract canvas full of playful motion and smooth explosions of color and shape. Original music accompanies each sequence.

Live at circus crone,munich 1966

I’m very glad I got to these before they ended up in the bin, One working projector, one with a stripped worm drive gear. and a whole box of films and spare spools!. Some stuff from General motors Holden, Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) and vereous movies and test films.

16mm transfer test

Design Project 1- Playing With Color For the first design project, I decided to play with color while using 16mm film. In the past year, experimental film has become a real hobby to me. I enjoy working on such a small-scale structure and then watch the real work come to live once the film is projected. The standard running rate of 16mm is 24 frames per minute. A frame on a 16mm film reel is only half and inch in length. You can imagine the amount that goes into creating camera less animation. A few years ago, I had shot 16mm for another project. Using the Belen Howell 16mm camera, the end result looked very old. The black and white images revealed to be strong. I decided to use this old film to create this first composition. I felt the images with a bit of color would uncover a stronger effect on the viewer. I chose three separate scenes. The first sequence was a companion bike scene, the second was an umbrella scene and the third; an old car sequence. Using a experimental technique, I scratched certain objects on the film strip and replaced them with a burst of color. Rather than just color the filmstrip, I decided to add scratch the objects, giving them a more creative effect. The bike was replaced with a splash of blue, the tie was a shade of orange, the umbrella draped in purple and the car outlined in red. After completing the scratching and colouring, the filmstrips were edified together and played through a projector and recorded digital. The end result is a fast …

A simple test to see the effects of the Vittorio Storaro gels from Rosco. And a small Color Temperature correction example. My wife Katie as the model