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Topic: The "Mystery Woman" on super 8!
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John Whittle
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 791
From: Northridge, CA USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted December 07, 2005 08:51 AM
quote: They had a special name but for the life of me I cant remember what it was.
These test or control pictures were called "Lillies". One bit of Hollywood Lore has it that one of the first girls was named "Lilly", another that there were pictures of flowers and fruits in a bowl. They were also called "China Girls" because some labs used ceramic figurines for the test frames.
I think this started with Technicolor and most labs produced there own control "girl". Many were spliced into the leader (although I've never seen one where it belongs--i.e. in the leader there are four frames marked with C F in the corners that is to be replaced with a control picture). This refers to the last "leader" the SMPTE Universal leader which was to replace both the SMPTE leader (the tv target leader) and the Academy leader (footage count down with just 35mm footage numbers, i. e. Pict Start [12 foot], 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. The Universal leader went in seconds to 2 seconds (ironically 3 feet).
John
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 07, 2005 11:22 AM
The reason why I asked this question, is that if you look at the leader to most of the Laurel and Hardy (as well as the other Hal Roach releases from Blackhawk), you will find that the leader on the film is actual leaders used by the Hal Roach studio's, actually designating that. The woman seen in these leaders, is certianly of a hair style of the early to late thirties, (I'm speaking of the black and white films), and I'd swear that this was at least one of the "stock player" at hal Roach studio's
I'm a just LOVING this post, also relishing that fact that naughty little Osi Osgood, has myriads of forum members looking at thier Blackhawk leaders. HAH!! Subversive little OSI!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 08, 2005 10:38 AM
Very cool Douglas!
I don't know where the different studio's got thier leader, all I know is that many of my Blackhawk prints say, somewhere on the leader, "Hal Roach Studio's". I don't know if this was thier own studio designation, originating with the studio, or it was tacked on by the film labs, whereever they were.
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