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Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on December 05, 2015, 12:40 PM:

It is described as a rewinder but I have a doubt. http://www.ebay.fr/itm/OUTIL-ANCIEN-BOBINEUSE-POUR-FILM-16-MM-BON-ETAT-/172018027958?hash=item280d12cdb6:g:5q8AAOSwuWVWE55T

Posted by Alexander Vandeputte (Member # 1803) on December 05, 2015, 12:58 PM:

Looks like an editing tool, to keep picture and sound synchronized.

Posted by Clyde Miles (Member # 4032) on December 05, 2015, 01:27 PM:

maybe for timing a print

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on December 05, 2015, 02:06 PM:

Thanks for the suggestions.

Posted by William Olson (Member # 2083) on December 05, 2015, 02:39 PM:

Yes, that's what it is. I believe it's called a multi-gang synchronizer or something like that.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 05, 2015, 03:53 PM:

Yes,

This is used with fullcoat (sprocketed audiotape on a film base) for the recorded sound and regular film for the image.

You went out in the field with your camera and a sync cable and a fullcoat recorder and came back with two kinds of footage.

-kind of a lost art, I'm afraid. Even if you want to do it they haven't made fullcoat in a couple of decades now.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on December 05, 2015, 05:23 PM:

Thank you very much for the explanations ! I would not have found out without your help.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on December 05, 2015, 05:41 PM:

Are you sure it's not a sewing machine?

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on December 06, 2015, 02:21 AM:

Synchronisers would have needed rewinds to use them. The number of "gangs" you would buy would match the number of spools which your rewinder could accommodate at one time.
A minimum of four "gangs" were recommended.
A large number of synchronisers have now joined 35mm cinema anamorphic lenses on eBay in the hope that they will bring in big money. But the truth is that that are now virtually worthless and nobody would buy as they would have no use for them.

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on December 06, 2015, 03:39 AM:

Hi Pat nice to see a post, keep well. [Smile]

Well done Steve yes Fullcoat sync bed. A couple of local 16mm film producers had great setups for this and as you say a lost art now fading to obscurity.

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