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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008

posted January 25, 2013 12:39 AM

I know we all sometimes get down from time to time (like me tonight since I have to go for a certain mri tommorrow) but then there are those things that make it all worth it.... For me, my job makes it all worth it. When I can get past the day to day annoyances I actually have one of the greatest jobs ever. This week I was allowed to set up a major display of the stuff from my archive... What kind of stuff you ask? Ummmm crazy important historical motion picture equipment such as the following:

An Original Lumiere Cinematographe from 1897 (#318)
A rare 2 color prototype Moy & Bastie camera from 1910
The Western Electric mixing board from The Jazz Singer(1927)
The copper cutting disc for R1 of the first vitaphone feature Don Juan (1926)
A walkie talkie used by George Lucas while making Star Wars
Excalibur from the film Camelot (1967)
A plaster cast of Thomas Edison's hands made by academy award winning makeup artist William Tuttle
the 3rd camera Bell & Howell ever made from 1906 (one of only 8 box cameras they ever made)
a British 3 strip technicolor camera (threaded with film by me)
a Duplex step printer from 1916 (an early 35mm contact printer)-which I completely broke down and rebuilt in the case like a ship in a bottle.. [Smile]

a working Powers no. 5 projector
a Pathe cinematographe from 1910 (the same kind as used to shoot Birth of a Nation)
and lots, lots more...
These are all from a collection I oversee that was compiled by a brilliant man named Herb Farmer.

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted January 25, 2013 01:05 AM

Dino you absolutely do have the greatest job ever! Thank you for sharing your wonderful photos and here's hoping that the MRI shows nothing but good results:)

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Janice

"I'm having a very good day!"
Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).

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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010

posted January 25, 2013 02:09 AM

Dino,

The collection looks excellent, where is the exhibit and how long will it run?

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted January 25, 2013 03:34 AM

Dino

Thanks for sharing that, hope all goes well for your scan.

Regards Graham,

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Joe Caruso
Film God

Posts: 4105
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2013 08:22 AM

Stay well, Dino, and thanks for the film - I had 2 Cat-Scans recently, and other procedures, all as well as I am - You will be too - Stay in touch, Shorty

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 25, 2013 01:28 PM

Dino, you lucky fellow! What fun you must have! All the best on your mri. I hope it will go well. My health concerns have had me kind of up and down as well.

Best wishes!

OSI

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Bill Phelps
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1482
From: USA
Registered: Jan 2009

posted January 25, 2013 08:02 PM

You do have a cool job Dino! Your job and your hobby is one in the same! Those old cameras are really interesting. I like the Lumiere. There was a film made back in 1995 and filmmakers from all over the world got to use the camera and film a one min short. This is the amount of film that you could hand crank through the camera. Some of the results were awesome. The directors talked about how excited they were to get a chance to use this original motion picture camera.

I also hope you are doing well...thanks for posting the pics.

Bill [Smile]

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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008

posted January 26, 2013 02:25 AM

Bill yes that Lumiere film was a great project. I am actually working with someone right now (they are interviewing me on Monday)on a documentary on Alice Guy Blache that is being narrated by Jodie Foster, where they are going to remake one of her early shorts using one of our old Pathe hand cranked cameras.

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