Items Needed for Cleaning and Viewing Your Film

No matter what your budget, you should be able to find affordable equipment for cleaning and watching the movie. When the cost of equipment is considered, unlike the very expensive specialized equipment, I will list the basic calculation method of the first after the last high end resources.

Anyone who is a film you should invest in some vertical rewinders - Hand and power returns, the editorial desk with good lighting would also be very korisno.Dodatni hoop (a), the film cans or boxes, clean cotton gloves, safety goggles, cloth, marking pens and marking tools and other basic necessities.

film cleaner, lubricant film and solvent resistant gloves should be added to your equipment. Also well-ventilated place and appropriate masks should be used for safety's sake. Some of the film cleaners are very toxic

To view the film for the damage and the outlook for the budget minded portable light box and loupe or some way to review a movie with a high magnification factor should be used. For high end budget desktop film viewer and reader for desktop sound talkies.

for making repairs and adding a leader, you will need the items above plus, perforated tape, razor blade, scissors, presstape, leader of the film, a film of cement and a simple clamp. For high end budget you can buy all the above plus the acetate film at a high level of coupling with the appropriate splicing tape and film cement as appropriate. If you use polyester film tape splicing or ultrasonic clamp melts the film, along with the ultrasonic signal.

Depending on how many different scales of the film of my collection is going to rule as a unique setting, you will need. The term Dual 8 means that it is both Super 8mm and Regular 8mm. There are viewers who can work with double-8, but will not work with 16mm or 35mm.

Vertical returns being advertised as a dual 8 or just one of 8mm, so that you know what you need and what vendors they list. On eBay I bought a plate with 2 Hand Craig returns attached to it the regular 8 and just need a plastic adapter back my Super eighth

Film gauge is expressed in millimeters (mm) sometimes you'll see the Super 8, with or without mm behind the 8, as well as Super 8mm, all mean the same thing. These are two criteria that are commonly used Home movie buffs.

acetate film base is what most regular 8 was recorded starting in 1932 and some Super 8 that was introduced in 1965, the acetate was first used around 1909, and is used today in one form or another.

polyester has been used since the mid 1950's to today for 35mm, 16mm, and a Super eighth Polyester film is commonly used for movies projected in the American theater, and usually in 35mm gauge. This is the hardest and most stable film base in use today can only be connected to the splicing tape or an ultrasonic coupling.

nitrate based films were from 1893 until the early 1950s it was very flexible and powerful, but is also highly flammable nitrate fires are almost impossible to extinguish a start. American manufacturers have never supplied to the domestic film market with nitrate based film of 16 mm or 8 mm gauge. Nitrate film is marked with the words of nitrate along the edge to mark it as a cult movie house will not be offered this highly inflammable film.