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Topic: How do you guys spool film on core?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 09, 2009 01:48 PM
I tend to keep the cores from Super 8 optical sound features, (when I have been lucky enough to get them untouched and from the factory floor, so to speak). I have cored them, but the hard way.
This may sound Silly, but what I do is set up my old copal, (only used as a rewinder machine, that's about all it's good for anymore.) I take it offthe reel it was on, taking it onto the take up reel, so that I have the end of the reel of film to tape to the core. I then take some tape and tape the end of it on the core.
Now here's the fun part!
I place the core on the linoleum countertop, and with a finger, start winding it off the reel by spinning thwe sore on the counter top, like we used to do when we played with that drawing machine, the "Spirograph", which would put neat designs on the paper. The first (last) reel takes the longest, but the more reel get "spiro'd" onto the core the quicker it gets because, of course, the amount of film is greater on the core.
I would only do this with features, reel by reel, last reel to first, so that the film is in its proper order. After having placed the whole feature on a core, I then take some good strong, but not heavy stick tape, and tape the film, both sides, over and over again, so that the cored film is firmly on the core; otherwise, you could have a terrible mess if it falls apart. (yeech! hate that!)
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