Auricon SOF

Post by **studiocarter** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:09 pm

The film transfer arrived today. It is a Auricon opitcal sound on 16mm film. The transfer was by a Rank Cintel Turbo. It is Great, Great, Great! All but one place has sound, the lamp was too low there. It has been burnt onto a DVD disk, and captured into the PC for editing. Postings will follow on myspace and or youtube.

My myspace space has two photos of frames showing the optical sound tracks. My logo is one. The other you need to register to see in my pics. There is one other person who has posted some Auricon movies, Panaflex.

More later. Gotta go.

Michael

Post by **wado1942** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:45 pm

congrats.

Post by **MovieStuff** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:25 am

Neat-O

What would be very cool is a computer program that can read optical sountracks if presented frame by frame. What I mean is, if you used a hi-res camera to capture each frame along with the soundtrack on the edge, but also caught a bit of the frame above and below (for overlap), then you could use software to decipher the audio for super duper, wow-free audio. Should work for 35mm, too!

Roger

Post by **wado1942** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:43 am

There actually was a short lived quadraphonic analogue audio system that appeared (and dissappeared) in the early 90s. It took up the same space as the normal optical track but used a CCD to pick up the audio. It yeilded 4 descrete channels with 20Hz-20KHz response and an 80dB S/N ratio. But nobody wanted to pay the $$ for 4 descrete channels analogue sound when heavily compressed, non-descrete digital sound started getting all the raves.

I realize you mean get the audio while scanning but this system could be implimented easily in a flying spot scanner and something like a Spirit would do a great job of it.

Post by **studiocarter** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:57 am

OK, here we go. 4 clips have been uploaded to youtube. They provided links to each. I am studiocarter there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT2SXsQzjVA test01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSzSEb1iBVw test03

I don't know what happened to test02 unless it was another clip on the same roll??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZisZqVj-A test04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cgag7gKz5g test05

test04 is my best

Phew (this is a lot like working!)

Michael Carter

PS: The 4&5 ones worked. I can't get a list of all four on their page anywhere. You just have to link from here I guess.
duh I don't know how they work, maybe later

Website · Post by **BigBeaner** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:55 am

That sound is so crappy...

I LOVE IT. What flavor, texture, yes there's a time for the smooth crisp digital but I love this. It's amazing how the sound gives the feeling of those 50's classroom movies. Great job!

Post by **thebigidea** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:58 am

Wow that's great - I adore it too, like the awful soundtracks on those Warhol talkies. And it DOES sound like an ancient educational film. The nicer looking clips are surprisingly clean and contrasty - but I love those ugly distressed clips as well, charming noise and dirt.

I'd love to mess around with a few reels on that camera... so you can use any single perf film on it to record optical sound? I might actually consider picking up a used camera on ebay then...

Post by **studiocarter** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:29 pm

Thanks for the strokes guys, my hair is all standing up on end :lol: burrrrr

I'd love to make a NEW old educational film with this outfit; something about art or filmmaking would be interesting. Sort of like a newscast, interview / documentary of an artist in a crappy studio somewhere in a seedy part of factory town.

Color film has never been tried, by ME; Panaflex did a bunch on Kodachrome then added music afterwards - optically. They look great. He is on myspace.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... d=76022598

Studiocarter is now accepting scripts for new ancient methods film productions :twisted:

Post by **thebigidea** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:50 pm

coughsputter.... COUGH....

Camera pans across fetid studio. Small objects and dust-covered plaques from community art festivals line the walls. Titles clumsily superimposed at the bottom.

NARRATOR:
Art. Its about images. Its about ideas. And its mostly about Robert Maxwell Davies, a legendarily unregarded figure in the history of modern art. If you were to approach him on the street, you'd most likely walk away due to the pungeant aroma of pure creativity that surrounds him at all times. Equally unknown for his self-obsessed avant garde experimental films of the mid 1960s to his unsolded trpytchs based on the expressions of Don Knotts from 1987, his breakthrough year when he discovered ideas were best found after fervent napping.

cut to black and white film of extreme closeups of lips being licked by coffee-stained tongues.

CAPTION: MOUTH SAYING THINGS [1964]

MUFFLED VOICEOVER:
Breadknives. Smelling salts. Where did my cheddar go?
The answer, my friend - is blaming my wind. The charm's gone
and wound itself up. Oh fuck. Not the electric bill. Ennui.

VOICEOVER OF PONCEY CRITIC:
Breakthroughs in seeing. Visionary forays into beingness. This was an artist unafraid to exhibit a small piece of bread as a major step forward in spatial arrangements.

MOTHER:
[with vaguely european accent]
He was a good boy. He used to punish himself, he would sit on the couch for hours, talking to an imaginary friend that he claimed could get him an arts grant to develop new ways of punishing himself. He was seven.

NARRATOR:
Nowadays his Immaterialist collages of Joe Don Baker's midsection sell for almost nothing on ebay. Tomorrow, who can say whether or not he will be forgotten.

DAVIES:
I'd like to say i'm in it for good reasons, but i'm not.

NARRATOR:
This disregard for his gift led him to his albatross, 1967's crashing bore and epic failure - "The Rigorous Cabinet of Doctor Verdegast Von Glucose"

cue tattered scene from film... churning organ in background and thunderclaps...

ASSISTANT:
Doctor Glucose - you're mad - nobody could ever eat that much sodium... you'll live to regret it...

DOCTOR GLUCOSE:
You're wrong... i'm not mad... i'm just able to articulate my ideas in a way that challenges your perceptions of science... if we listened to you we'd never have invented the wheel or the computational machine. Mad? Ha - i'll show you that madness is another word for progress - hahahahah...

Doctor collapses into cardboard set.

DAVIES:
I wanted to see between the frames, as my mentor, Serbo-Urbanian filmmaker Ontor Pertawst did. He taught me that a beard made the world
easier to take. He showed me how to scowl at people who wanted an explanation. Art for artichoke's sake. We'll have a bakesale or something.

ONTOR:
I may have met him once or twice but i don't remember much.
He just didn't make much of an impression. So... how about making
this documentary about me instead? I do impressions. I leave impressions. Watch - I do impression of uh... Claaaark Gable. Mickey Rooney. Broderick Crawford. I performed in cabaret clubs of comedy - how you say - for funs as well.

NARRATOR:
He may have borrowed lethargic narrative techniques from worshipping at the altar of the inscrutably accented Ontor Pertawst but truly mastered it, remade it into his own idiom - a way of life, a wonder he wasn't arrested for such aggressive lethargy.

EX WIFE MILDRED BORE:
He sat around the house watching Knightrider mostly. In the same pair of boxers, stained yellow you see - he said he liked the textures. I could tell he was just lazy.

inexplicable world's fair footage and blaring orchestra bursts in.

NARRATOR:
And let laziness be our way forward in this new american century... let God command his subjects to cave in and live life in a way it should be lived, and may America continue to enslave the world to the precepts of goodness, democracy, and shorter lines at the supermarket. if on the seventh day god rested, so should we all rest for seven days to make great art. Amen.

CENTRON FILMS LOGO

"For a nude american century"

film burns and breaks, sound warps down and shudders to a halt.

--

I'm obsessed with mental hygeine - I was working on one about being a poverty row filmmaker - do's and don'ts entitled "Lights... Camera... Foodstamps"

Post by **studiocarter** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:52 pm

DIY or DIE
I bought this on VHS and really liked it.
http://www.kittyfeet.com/diy.htm

Some of the studios and people look like the above script! Actually, most of them, my celler, my son's house after his bi-yearly super party, (wish I coulda been there), my third floor, most of Pittsburgh...

That was really neat. Did you write that just for lill ol me? :oops:

Post by **thebigidea** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:15 am

The effect of coffee and procrastination in the morning I suppose! I think I watched too much stuff out of the Prelinger archives and am liable to lapse into voiceover commentary voices at any time. This makes going to, say, the DMV difficult.

here's a few I made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HTdKwh3qSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEaOiagn3Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0kU6qCc3GY

and while we're on the subject of coffee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWIppMX1wDg

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:21 pm

Major DeBraggert = Mr. McFeely ?!

Post by **wado1942** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:32 am

So Michael, looks like you got your technical advice from a good friend of mine Nathan. I linked your sample #4 over to smallpondfilms.org's board and he replied saying he supposedly inspired you to shoot on an Auricon.

Post by **studiocarter** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:49 am

It's a small world

Post by **studiocarter** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:06 pm

Ha! He wrote and wants to host my film on his site along with other Auricon films. Cool.