{"id":828,"date":"2012-03-12T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/?p=828"},"modified":"2012-07-23T21:47:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:47:35","slug":"scratch-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/2012\/03\/12\/scratch-that\/","title":{"rendered":"scratch that"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film is both sturdy and incredibly delicate.\u00a0 One wrong move can ruin a film forever.\u00a0 The biggest mistakes most often happen in projection.\u00a0 Like vampires, film projectors often destroy the ones they love.<\/p>\n

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The image above, seen through a loupe,\u00a0 is from a 16mm print that was most probably projected from or onto a bent metal reel that had a burr on it.\u00a0 This print of The Great John L.<\/em> (USA, 1945) is from the Howard E. Burr Collection<\/a>.\u00a0 (This is also the kind of scratching you can get from running a film on a platter<\/a> incorrectly, but those of you projecting at home probably won’t have to worry about that.)<\/p>\n

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The image above, from another print of the same film, shows damage that can be done inside the projector gate.\u00a0 There is a short white line through the man’s head in this Gone With the Wind – style shot.\u00a0 This is where the emulsion has been abraded, probably by something stuck to the gate.<\/p>\n

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The arrows point to another emulsion scratch.\u00a0 This could easily have been made by a dirty roller in the projector.<\/p>\n

Always clean your projector prior to showing your movie!\u00a0 Here are some tips<\/a> on projector cleaning from Bob Brodsky.<\/p>\n

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