My hands just got terribly filthy....

[Trevor]

Hardly earth shattering news I know (considering the work I do) but I'm checking prints of Shangani Patrol for this festival https://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/events/shangani-patrol/ and I'm always amazed at how much dirt gets on your fingahs after winding a 35mm print through to check it. 

[Josso]

Is there a difference between prints and films? I handled 35mm a bunch and I never got dirty, I would be p**sed if I got dirt onto my negs, mind you I buy 35mm new though.

[Trevor]

Is there a difference between prints and films? I handled 35mm a bunch and I never got dirty, I would be p**sed if I got dirt onto my negs, mind you I buy 35mm new though.

The film that you put in cameras remains negative once you develop it and make paper prints from it: the prints I deal with are positive and are the normal films that run in a theater.   

[Newt]

I'm always amazed at how much dirt gets on your fingahs after winding a 35mm print through to check it. 

Do film prints attract dust or do they generate their own?  You got me wondering.

[Trevor]

I'm always amazed at how much dirt gets on your fingahs after winding a 35mm print through to check it. 

Do film prints attract dust or do they generate their own?  You got me wondering.

It could be a combination of both: the cans are usually clean (whether they're metal or plastic) and the films get dust from the air and running through the projector gate. All I can say is that the reels I went through were feeeeeelthy... 

[Jack]

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?

[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?

All those hairs: they belong to me. 

When a 35mm film is processed, there can sometimes be hairs that get picked up by the reel during processing and then there can also be hairs in the camera gate when filming happens, hence the phrase "Check the gate".

These days with digital filmmaking, the camera is bald to say the least. 

[Trevor]

Further research by yours truly indicates that the 'hair' could also be a small sliver of film that comes loose from the raw stock while the film is passing through the camera gate. 

[Derf]

Further research by yours truly indicates that the 'hair' could also be a small sliver of film that comes loose from the raw stock while the film is passing through the camera gate. 

Eewww. Cinematic pubes. 

[Trevor]

Further research by yours truly indicates that the 'hair' could also be a small sliver of film that comes loose from the raw stock while the film is passing through the camera gate. 

Eewww. Cinematic pubes. 

Especially if the hairs are mine (which they all are) 

[Flangepart]

And of course, all I can think of is the hair on the film in WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?

[ER]

Do you have to take a lot of fire precautions working with films, Trevor? I had no idea until recently* that films (or is it only old film?) present the fire hazard they do.


*And they say you can't learn anything from Tarantino movies!

[Trevor]

Do you have to take a lot of fire precautions working with films, Trevor? I had no idea until recently* that films (or is it only old film?) present the fire hazard they do.


*And they say you can't learn anything from Tarantino movies!

Yes we have to: it is the nitrate based films (those produced prior to 1951) that we have to handle with care as they can go up in flames easily. The odd thing is that if the nitrate based films are kept correctly, they can last for years.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_base#Nitrate

BTW: the scene in Ingloroiououoyooius Basatrds  where the pile of film catches fire could very easily happen. 

[Trevor]

Doing it again: I'm preparing copies of Katrina and Jannie Totsiens for the same festival in July this year. 

[bob]

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