My hands just got terribly filthy....

[Trevor]

Inquiring minds must know: are your undies dirtier then your hands?

My hands have gloves on when I check films so I will check and report back asap. 

[Trevor]

Finished Katrina and Jannie Totsiens: eleven 35mm reels and two trailers.  Job done.

Now I just hope I get to go there in July.

[Trevor]

It happened again this morning: this time with negatives. Odd. 

[AoTFan]

Sometimes when I'm watching an old movie, there will be a piece of hair that seems to be stuck on it.  And it doesn't look like hair from someone's head, it looks like it's from, you know...the place where it grows shorter and curlier.

What the heck is up with that?

Well, if it's a porno, I'd say someone got a bit TOO involved in the movie.

[Trevor]

Sometimes when I'm watching an old movie, there will be a piece of hair that seems to be stuck on it.  And it doesn't look like hair from someone's head, it looks like it's from, you know...the place where it grows shorter and curlier.

What the heck is up with that?

Well, if it's a porno, I'd say someone got a bit TOO involved in the movie.

As I said back then, all those hairs: they belong to me 

The hair could actually be one of three things: a hair that gets caught in the gate of the camera - hence the phrase 'check the gate' - a hair that is picked up during processing or a small sliver of film that gets caught in the camera gate during production. 

[Trevor]

It happened again: a 16mm film in an air-tight can is filthy dirty. Very strange. 

[BoyScoutKevin]

It happened again: a 16mm film in an air-tight can is filthy dirty. Very strange. 

It is said that the Library of Congress, here in the U.S., the site where one gets a copyright for a film, has one of the largest collections of pornographic films in the U.S.

How about where you work, Trevor? A lot of South African porno?

[Trevor]

How about where you work, Trevor? A lot of South African porno?

Thankfully not.

Up until 1994, possession or production of X rated material was against the law, whether the material was on film, tape or in a book or a magazine. All films and publications had to be submitted to the South African Publications Control Board for ratings.

People tried to make adult films here - there were several made during the 1980s - but those films were seized and the makers jailed or fined heavily. So much for free thought and speech 

[Trevor]

A newsflash: Trevor is preparing a film print for the first time in four years 

And yes, my gloves get horribly filthy 

[Newt]

 

[Trevor]

It's Tokoloshe: only issue, there's a reel missing. No idea why.