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29 October 2025
- 13:0113:01, 29 October 2025 Film orientation (hist | edit) [23,591 bytes] Cooljpeg (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Film orientation''' refers to the orientation in which a film element is wound onto a reel, the fashion in which a film element was manufactured, and the ways innate characteristics of a film element can serve as referential waypoints during inspection and projection. Making heads or tails of film orientation can be a topsy-turvy endeavor, but is crucial to ensuring proper winds, investigation of newly incurred damages, and accurately citing locations throughout a fil...")
22 October 2025
- 12:1312:13, 22 October 2025 Sound focus (hist | edit) [3,192 bytes] Rfhall (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sound focus''' is a concept relevant to the presentation of 16mm films with optical soundtracks on projector models with '''sound focus controls'''. =Background= 16mm films (and other nonsymmetrical formats like 8mm and Super 8) vary in their emulsion orientations depending on the camera stock type and lab processes that produced them. Depending on the workflow that produced it, a reel you hold with the sprocket holes facing you might have its emulsion layer facing o...")
16 October 2025
- 08:4008:40, 16 October 2025 Uncommon film gauges (hist | edit) [5,735 bytes] Rfhall (talk | contribs) (This article incorporates and consolidates the text from the articles about 9.5mm, 22mm, and 28mm originally written by JesseCrooks)
15 October 2025
- 21:0721:07, 15 October 2025 16mm sound formats (hist | edit) [2,993 bytes] Rfhall (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* mono - various types (mauer, single track, etc) (stereo was developed in the 1990s and some Eastman projectors have readers for this but no prints were made) * silent (double perf vs. single perf) * sound from external sources (digital file, cassette tape, radio, etc.) * mag stripe (rare for standard projection settings but comes up with home movies and artifacts like Scopitones) * production elements you may run into (e.g. fullcoat) * DTS exists in very rare, semi-exp...")
- 19:1819:18, 15 October 2025 16mm aspect ratios (hist | edit) [3,898 bytes] Rfhall (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The 16mm frame has '''a native full-frame aspect ratio of ~1.34:1'''. This is the aspect ratio of the vast majority of 16mm prints encountered in exhibition settings today. Exceptions are usually encountered when projecting a print of a film that has been reduced to 16mm from a 35mm print, or when projecting certain experimental or artists' films. The ~1.34:1 full-frame aspect ratio is the same for sound prints and for silent prints. <gallery widths...")