WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.240 The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.559 All Right, people, take out your notebooks and pencils and 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:10.080 trive rolls. You're listening to tech Talk Radio with true geeks. 4 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:12.720 And by the way, I'm beast Eider and I'm a 5 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:13.240 kiek too. 6 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:18.760 Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, 7 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.440 I'm sean to Weird, and I'm Matt Jones. And everybody 8 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:24.160 is a little I don't know. We just say a 9 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:25.879 little sleepy little. 10 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.320 You're the only one that didn't lose an hour of 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.600 sleep on Sunday, So you can just take that as 12 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:33.960 you will. 13 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:38.079 Yeah, yeah, I was gonna go with like weary and 14 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:39.840 mildly rage full at Andy. 15 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:43.880 No, just but you know what, okay for us in Arizona, 16 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.320 where we don't do any adjustment, there's somewhere else they don't. 17 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:51.719 Is it Indianapolis that they don't change the time or 18 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:52.439 something like that. 19 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.119 It's not Indiana. Indiana's still Indiana. Just their time they do. 20 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:57.640 There's it's Hawaii. 21 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:00.880 Of course it's Hawaii, because white you need to change 22 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.079 the time in Paradise. 23 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.879 Well, the crazy thing is is because working in media, 24 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.000 you know you're booking interviews. You're looking at people are 25 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.920 contacting you go, Okay, what time do you want to 26 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.319 have them? And then you have to like do the math, 27 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.840 Oh where are they? And then you get this math 28 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:19.120 to do, Like like I was trying to find out 29 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.959 the time for you, Sean, because you're three hours ahead now, 30 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.079 but I was trying to think, are you in that 31 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.760 there's one area where it's only two hours ahead, and 32 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:29.319 I was trying to figure out where it is. 33 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:35.719 So we are the furthest West County in Indiana that 34 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.640 is in Central Time. So I drive if I drove 35 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:41.920 twenty minutes, maybe thirty minutes to the west, i'd be 36 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:42.560 in Central Time. 37 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:44.840 Right, that's weird. 38 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.200 That's how close we are. If I drive north two miles, 39 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.280 I'm in Michigan. So I'm kind of in a weird 40 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.719 little trifecta. But yeah, Indiana, Indiana is a weird Like 41 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.359 most of it's Central Time, but some of it's Eastern Time, 42 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.480 and it's kind of a weird mix. But right, I 43 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:03.000 have coworkers that live in Central Time, right, we have 44 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:07.879 staff that live in Central Time and they drive, you know, 45 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:09.840 but you know, forty minutes to get to work. But 46 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.080 then they're also losing. It's so weird. I don't know 47 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:12.800 how they do that. 48 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.240 Is it better the other time of the year for you? 49 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.599 For you guys, I mean when the time adjusts because 50 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.400 you gain an hour, right, I. 51 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.639 Mean fall back, fallback, spring forward? 52 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.199 Yeah, yeah, is it better when you fall back? 53 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:29.360 Over the years, I worked overnights during most of that time, 54 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.520 so it's like you just worked an extra hour. 55 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:33.400 I kind of trying to remember because I worked in 56 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:37.199 radio in California where we'd have to do adjustments and 57 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.479 you always think. I felt like I was getting ripped 58 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:41.680 off an hour something. 59 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:46.319 The thing that really frustrates me right now is getting 60 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:47.759 my kids back into a routine. 61 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:49.039 Oh yeah, you don't think. 62 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.520 You don't think an hour makes a difference, but until 63 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.719 your kids are up at five am instead of six 64 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.560 am or vice versas. So wow, just place havoc with 65 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:57.439 their sleep schedules. 66 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.840 And I've got three dogs and two cats, and time 67 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:06.919 is a human construct. So yeah, there we spring ahead 68 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:14.360 and they're like, hey, Hi, have I mentioned how hungry 69 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:16.120 I am? And I'm like, well, you're standing on my 70 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.120 chest and the sun's not up. So I had some 71 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:22.000 inkling that there was something going on our cat for 72 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.319 the first time ever. Last night one of our cats 73 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:29.360 lose at two am, decided to stage a protest and 74 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.120 took her metal food bowl and just started chucking it 75 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:33.840 around our bathroom. 76 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.199 Nice of that cat and my. 77 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:40.159 Wife, God bless her. She got up, you know, got up, 78 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:42.000 put the ball back in, looked at the cat, was like, 79 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:45.319 what are you doing? Two hours later at four am, 80 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:49.759 I guess one protest wasn't enough because now she's throwing 81 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.639 it across the room. Instead of just like drop it, 82 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.479 pick it up, drop it, she's flinging it across the room. 83 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.560 The cat reactions, so now it knows yeah. 84 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:03.080 And I'm just like, no, the cat's training us successfully, 85 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.759 I'd like to point out, very successfully. Like this morning, 86 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.000 I got up and she's chewing on the collar that 87 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:10.560 we take off at night, and I'm like, no, don't 88 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:12.120 chew on that. And as soon as I get up, 89 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.120 she gets just like ah, gotch and dives into the 90 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.920 bathroom for food. And I'm like, I am losing this fight. 91 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.920 I am not winning against a two brain celled cat 92 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.360 and both brain cells are fighting for third place. 93 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.040 Oh boy, well, hopefully you'll be able to catch up 94 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.759 on the sleep. But I'll tell you we got some 95 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.360 great comments a couple of weeks ago when Sean you 96 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:37.879 were talking about the EPSOM fast photo six' adw. We've 97 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:39.839 given that a lot of time and I was gonna 98 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.120 post the video and I haven't done that yet. Of 99 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.399 the scans that you were doing, you actually you're still 100 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.959 working on that project, right. 101 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.920 So the backlog this is great, right, the backlog of 102 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.920 photos that I had from the project I started in 103 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.519 twenty nineteen, which was all of my grandparents' films, thirty 104 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.800 five mili slides, lose four by six whatever that's done. 105 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.160 Oh great, that's cool, right. 106 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:10.399 Because in the time that I got that scanner and 107 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.600 I just you know, just in just putting a couple out, 108 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:16.120 maybe an hour or two a day into it, I 109 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:18.680 blew through probably twenty eight hundred photos. 110 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.160 Nice, that's good, and got them in. 111 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.800 And organized and upgraded and uploaded to the cloud and 112 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:26.079 onto my sand storage. 113 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:26.319 Right. 114 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:29.199 So it's like that thing saved me so much time. 115 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.879 Well. I one of the nice comments we got was 116 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.879 from Mitch Goldstone, who we've had on the show a 117 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.439 couple of times, from scan my photos. They have a 118 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.040 business that does that and he appreciated the fact that, yes, 119 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.120 you know, we're mentioning you could do this yourself. You 120 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.680 have the opportunity, and of course we did mention that 121 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.519 you could also go to a service like like Mitch offers, 122 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.040 but he appreciated the fact that you're talking about the 123 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:59.040 importance of preserving members. We've seen what happened in Hawaii, 124 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:03.720 We've seen what happened in Los Angeles and Pasadena with floods. 125 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.720 Now that people are concerned with some of these images 126 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:10.000 could be lost forever where there's no maybe no negatives 127 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.639 in a disaster, and you don't want that to happen. 128 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:17.720 So we appreciated the aspect of you saving these images 129 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.360 for your family. You actually have gone another step where 130 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.240 and somebody listening may think, well, I've got a scanner, 131 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.079 I've already scanned all my photos. You've got those eight 132 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:31.279 millimeters or super eight millimeter reels of film. Have you 133 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.439 taken the steps to get those done? And again, Mitchell's 134 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.120 company could do that, but you actually let me know 135 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:39.199 that there is a way you could do this yourselves 136 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:39.639 as well. 137 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.360 Yeah, we've talked about this on the show before because 138 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:44.240 this was part of that project I started back at 139 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.360 twent nineteen. Well, my mom, my aunt, my uncle pitched 140 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:50.959 in a couple hundred bucks to get me a step 141 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.759 by step film scanner right eight milimeter super eight millimeter 142 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.199 film scanners called a Wolverine data film to digital movie 143 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.160 maker pro. Okay, you can buy them on you can 144 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.759 buy an Amazon, B and H Photo, etc. They make 145 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:05.120 a couple cheaper versions. I would avoid getting the cheaper 146 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.600 ones if you if you're looking to do this, I 147 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:09.160 would get I would spend the four hundred dollars to 148 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.600 get it. The next I will recommend that this is 149 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.439 the lowest tier you're going to get at a consumer level, 150 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:19.079 because the next step starts adding commos to the price. 151 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:20.399 Oh wow, so. 152 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.439 Right, so you start getting into a little bit more 153 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.120 of the bottom end of the professional level. So this 154 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.160 is kind of the happy medium, and it's relatively easy 155 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.439 to set up, but there's a lot of prep work involved. Right, 156 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.600 So I scanned I got I don't even know. I 157 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:40.000 scanned so many films from my grant, from my grandfather, 158 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.480 my mom's side of my maternal grandparents. 159 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.279 What years are you talking about? 160 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.439 Oh, so late forties, so forty nine to wow, eighties? Right, 161 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.439 So I mean there was. There was stuff ranging from 162 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.560 when my when my grandfather serving the navy in the 163 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.600 late forties into the fifties. You know, film of my 164 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.199 mom's first birthday. You know, so in the the early fifties. 165 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:07.439 Now, these would all be silent. They wouldn't be because 166 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.079 you didn't have Yeah, yeah, you know, there's. 167 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:12.279 No there's no audio recordings that went along with these. No, 168 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.759 you know, they didn't do the total like, yeah, it's 169 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:18.839 all silent. So but it it What I like about 170 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:21.800 it is and you came across a lot of in 171 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.759 my research on trying to find a scanner. You came 172 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.439 around a clock. You came across a lot that would 173 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:31.079 just pull the slides through and just kind of videotape 174 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:31.920 them as they went through. 175 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.799 Right, This actually steps. 176 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:36.919 Has a stepper motor in it that steps through every 177 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.919 single frame has it catches this brocket advances it one 178 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:44.279 frame takes it takes an image, advances it takes an 179 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.200 image all the way through until you stop it. So 180 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.480 what that allows us to do is then it compiles 181 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.519 it at twenty four frames per second, which is film 182 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.480 speed to play back for the human eye, and it 183 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.240 generates an MP four file for you right off, right 184 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:00.679 off the machine. So I can then take that and 185 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.600 put it right into a you know, a final cut 186 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.919 Pro Premiere, Da Vinci, Resolve, etcetera, etcetera. 187 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.440 So you could put graphics in there than with some 188 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:09.240 of these programs. 189 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:09.480 Yeah. 190 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.679 I mean, at that point, you're it's up to how 191 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.679 creative you want to get. But it's a very time 192 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.759 consuming process, right, And that's something I always try to 193 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.360 remind people about this process. This is a very time 194 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.279 consuming process. Not a lot of people are going to 195 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.399 sit through and do this, and that's what I'm taking 196 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:29.919 out of this is I'm spending time with my family's history, 197 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.399 seeing these come to life with the videos, the pictures, 198 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.759 touching them, holding onto them, remembering, oh, yeah, that was 199 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:38.720 me when I was six. I'm a goober, right, It's 200 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:42.080 like I'm missing fourteenth and all this whole thing. So 201 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:47.159 it's just a cool process. So this past week I 202 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.759 got in touch with my uncle who gave me my 203 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:51.559 paternal grandparents' films. 204 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:52.600 Wow. 205 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.399 So I'm now in the process of scanning even more 206 00:09:55.639 --> 00:10:00.639 film and I just scanned in this this this morning 207 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.480 a four inch reel of film. So you know, imagine 208 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.240 a four inch reel that it ended up being about 209 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:10.919 fourteen minutes of foot edge. 210 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.360 Wow, I remember you remember you would take the I 211 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.639 had a Super eight camera and I would take the 212 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.639 you know, the little film out and I would take 213 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.759 it to the photo matter or wherever I was getting processed, 214 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.039 and they would then give me a reel. And that 215 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.360 reel was about three and a half minutes is what 216 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.039 you would get off the standard. But then if you 217 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:36.240 you know, wanted to edit and spice together, you could 218 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.840 have one of these five inch reels or even seven 219 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:41.759 inch reels I from what I remember, and you would 220 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.240 get like a longer amount of time. That would mean 221 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:45.879 it would take you longer scan though. 222 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.480 Well yeah, so this reel is definitely multiple smaller reels 223 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:51.200 spliced together. 224 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:51.399 Right. 225 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.519 They had a he has the original spicer that they 226 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.120 have with the tape. If you've ever done tape to 227 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.279 tape or film to film splicing, which I had to 228 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.120 do in college, it's a it's a bear, it's a pain. 229 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.480 Light it up, cut tape. 230 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.600 Yeah, spin the real go go go. 231 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.200 Lice tape Spinspinspin's go go go, Right, So. 232 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.879 I had to do that was a lot of fun. 233 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:19.399 It's a process, right, so it's it's a time consuming process. 234 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.480 And I'm also cleaning and and and and and kind 235 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.840 of setting it for archives. So I'm also unspooling it 236 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.159 with and cleaning it with ninety nine percent ice pp 237 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.759 alcohol and a film cleaner. Right, so I'm spinning it through, 238 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.679 cleaning it with with a cotton cloth, unspooling it, spinning 239 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.399 it back. So I'm cleaning it so that when it 240 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.120 goes to the scanner, it's not goobling up with potential mold, 241 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.159 you know, because it's yeah, emulsion is a chemical that 242 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:50.720 can break down and can grow mold. So I experienced 243 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.360 that with the first part of the project where I 244 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.440 didn't clean I mean I was cleaning it, but not 245 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.799 doing a very good job of cleaning it. And then 246 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.200 I would go, why is this the crummy that I 247 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.440 take the film out? It's got crumbs and it's got 248 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.360 so I've been I cleaned the scanner every time before. 249 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.039 I love a new real film. So it's just a pain. 250 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.600 It's just it's a pain, but it's totally worth it. 251 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:12.639 It's just time consuming. 252 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.159 Now with this Wolverine data film to digital movie maker 253 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.480 projector this isn't the kind of projector. You would say, oh, 254 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.360 I'm gonna go ahead and play a move. I'm gonna 255 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.519 play the movie. Well, watch it on the wall or 256 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.399 watch it on a screen. This is mainly just four 257 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.000 digital transfers, right. 258 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.840 Yeah, this is just pulling the film through shooting light 259 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.919 from the bottom up so that an image scan an 260 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.720 imager can take a picture every frame, and then it 261 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:40.799 gives you a file at the end. 262 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:42.919 Some of the quality look looks pretty good. I know, 263 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:44.799 matt you you saw some of the some of the 264 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.799 finished product of one he had just finished. It was 265 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:49.039 pretty pretty clear. 266 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:52.200 It was really clear. Like I was looking at it, 267 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.679 like what Coming of Age film? Am I about to 268 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.519 start watching? Like I feel like I should be hearing 269 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.480 you know, Corey Matthews coming over the voiceover, like it 270 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.720 was the summer of nineteen eighty four. 271 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.320 Yep, I know when when Sean was telling us this 272 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.879 was taking in nineteen eighty one, I felt very old 273 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.000 because that's when I was graduating from high school, or 274 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:20.159 nineteen eighty even I was, I wasn't even born. Oh man, 275 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:25.559 you guys, this is great though. It's a great way 276 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.840 to preserve that technology. Now they don't rent the projector. 277 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:30.440 You don't have to buy this from like what B 278 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:31.360 and H or something. 279 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.519 Yeah, you can buy it from ben H Photo, which 280 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:37.039 is my go to for pretty much anything we buy professionally. 281 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.720 It's not Amazon. I just wouldn't trust Amazon for I'm 282 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.840 hesitant to trust Amazon for purchases these days. 283 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.399 Oh, especially one of the story of one of the 284 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.759 big stories from today. Yeah, definitely. 285 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:53.279 Yeah, So it's just you know, and B and H Photo. 286 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:57.159 They're great, but yeah, it's it's it's kind of a 287 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.200 set and forget right, all right, there's some tweak that 288 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.919 I've made, and I've actually had to go in and 289 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.519 repair the unit myself. So I had some issues with it. 290 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.000 And if somebody wants my how to step by step 291 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.600 guide on how I do it, it's not how you 292 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:16.720 do it in the guide, it's it's it's the the 293 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.759 real to real part of it. Right. It's got an 294 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.600 arm with the you can put the reel on and 295 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.000 then it's supposed to spin onto the other reel. Right, 296 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.440 so it's supposed to pull the keep tension. That's a 297 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:32.320 that's a load of crap. That system doesn't work. It's 298 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.080 it's it's it's two motors. Well, so it's it's a 299 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.080 free spinning on on on the feed side, and it's 300 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.840 a it's pulling on the on the on the receive side. 301 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:46.159 That motor is not strong enough. So as soon as 302 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.039 you get more than two feet of film and it 303 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:52.399 starts getting tight, it starts to skip, it starts to 304 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.960 it starts to spin, and it starts to the motor starts, 305 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:59.120 it starts lagging. So what I do is I said, 306 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.200 it's literally sitting right at the edge of the table. 307 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.320 So I've got the feed real and I have it 308 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.799 coming through and I loop it through the guides and 309 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:08.399 I just let it dump off the edge of the table. 310 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:09.600 Oh, there you go. 311 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.919 So it the weight, the weight of the gravity holding 312 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.799 the film down is enough to keep the film tight 313 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:18.039 in the carriage. 314 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:20.399 If you have a cat, don't let your cat be 315 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.080 linger you're around, because you will kill the. 316 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.519 Cat would be all over that. But it looks it. 317 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.240 I'll send a picture. It's a big nest of film, 318 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.840 Like I mean, this is I don't know how much, 319 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:32.080 fourteen minutes of film. 320 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.600 It's it's yeah, it's a lot of film feet. 321 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.919 Yeah, it's it's a long it's a long fifty film. 322 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.320 I think fifty feet, if I remember correctly, was on 323 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:42.360 the small reels, and that's where you got three and 324 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.200 a half minutes. So that kind of tells you a 325 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:44.679 little bits. 326 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.480 I mean, it's it's a lot of film, and like 327 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.200 he said, I've been cleaning them. So I've been a lot, 328 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.200 a lot of spooling, a lot of spooling. 329 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.360 You know what I have on now? I might it 330 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.960 might be sixteen millimeter, and I don't know if they 331 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.600 make if Wolverine makes a sixteen millimeter film, you know, 332 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:05.960 to digital. But I have the original trailer for Star 333 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:10.799 Wars before it ever hit theaters, before anybody knew. Yeah, 334 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.480 I on sixteen millimeter and it has a different soundtrack. 335 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.200 The visual effects aren't put in yet where they're firing 336 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.200 the blasters and the lasers. I mean, it was pretty good. 337 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.279 I bought it a science fiction convention back in probably 338 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.240 nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight. I got a script for 339 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:32.639 Star Wars, you know, where it had It had bigs 340 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:36.159 and the different characters that maybe weren't didn't make it 341 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.440 fully into the big film. But either way, that sixty 342 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:42.919 milimeter trailer I still have, and the narration of the 343 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.080 music was ter It wasn't even the music that you know, 344 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.519 John Williams music. It was some classical score. But I 345 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.399 would love to find a way to get that also transferred, 346 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:54.720 so that you know, I would say, okay, I have it. 347 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.200 It's probably out there on YouTube anyways, but still it 348 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:58.159 would be cool to see. 349 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:02.919 Well, one of my favorite project was the four K remasters, right, 350 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:05.200 if you any of you have gone through the process 351 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.359 of trying to find those and download them, they're incredible. 352 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:11.480 By the way, it's a hot topic, so I'm not 353 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:13.240 going to discuss how to find those or where to 354 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:16.960 get them. Is this Star Wars. It's the original trilogy. 355 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.880 It's called Project Night whatever year they will mean nineteen 356 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:25.240 eighty three four K or whatever. And there somebody got 357 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.599 a hold of a thirty original thirty five you know whatever, 358 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:33.480 the thirty five millimeters original print and remastered it in 359 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:39.920 four K, and it's incredible to see the difference, right 360 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:44.519 because it's all pre special editions, it's all the original 361 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:45.319 film release. 362 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:46.480 Right. 363 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:48.839 So if you're a huge Star Wars nut, you can 364 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.759 just google it. You'll find it. Go down the rabbit 365 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:53.559 hole if you want Project four. 366 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.079 K, Project four K seventy seven. 367 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:58.480 Okay, cool. I'm gonna look for that one. Yeah. I 368 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.039 used to love collecting movie trains. I had that one 369 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.039 at the car. Do you remember the one with James 370 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.400 Brolin in the car was like a crazy looking car 371 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:07.720 at the trailer for that. 372 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.839 A few decades behind us, you got you gotta you 373 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:12.240 gotta bring it a few decades forward. 374 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.279 Oh boy, Yeah, Young Frankenstein. You ever hear that one? 375 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:17.759 I get that one. 376 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:18.759 That's a great. 377 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:22.400 Lindsey hey. 378 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.759 Actually you know with the passing, with the passing, uh 379 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.359 not that long ago. Have gene hackmen too. You have 380 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.519 to think about that scene in Young Frankenstein with him 381 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.279 and Peter Boyle as Frankenstein and he plays a blad 382 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.559 man right to light his cigar, poor coffee and just 383 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.799 completely terrorizing poor Frankenstein. 384 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:44.000 Where are you gonna go? 385 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.400 I was gonna make espresso? 386 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:49.279 I remember. 387 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.000 Frankenstein is such a great movie. 388 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:56.359 It's it is such a classic. It really anything Melo 389 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:01.599 Brooks has done is just timeless. Slee Bulletproof and I 390 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:03.880 saw there was a there's an interview where they were like, 391 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:07.799 what movie did you make that you could never remake today? 392 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:09.839 And they barely got the question up before it was 393 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.759 like Blazing Saddles. Yep, absolutely, Like there's no way I 394 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.200 could remake that today a chance. 395 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.119 I was really jazzed many many met years ago when 396 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.680 we were doing the show. And I don't know if 397 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.559 this happens in Palm Springs or it was in Tucson 398 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.160 when we first got her, But Burton Gilliam, who was 399 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.599 in Blazing Saddles, did the voice work of a character 400 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:38.559 in a game called Redneck Rampage and got him on 401 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.559