35mm Movie Trailers Scans

The copyrights owners of the K-PAX movie refuse to let people broadcast the trailer on Youtube, through the use of the dispute system as a mean to contact them I asked to let me publish it but they refused without a shadow of an explanation. So sorry folks, you won't see it. With close to 2000 trailers scanned, this is only the third time a copyright tried to block me but it is the first time they didn't relent after a plea. I guess they don't want to sell this movie anymore.

9 months ago | [YT] | 67

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One of my hobbies, beside scanning, is using my little drone. These days I'm doing it to collaborate with Capitaine Montréal who makes informative and historical videos about the city I live in.

10 months ago | [YT] | 17

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Yes! finally got 10k subscribers.

11 months ago | [YT] | 62

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I received trailers from Ukraine, mostly in Russian if not all, to not confuse my regular subscribers I'm only publishing them "unlisted" on my channel, but there is a public playlist that anyone can use to find them:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Please share that list with your Russian speaking friends. :p

Я получил трейлеры из Украины, большинство из них на русском, если не все. Чтобы не путать моих постоянных подписчиков, я публикую их в «доступ по ссылке» на своем канале, но есть общедоступный плейлист, который можно использовать, чтобы их найти:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

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1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 22

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When a film is stuck in "a block" state, unrolling it normally severely damages the emulsion. (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWCTL...). This issue occurs far too often for my taste.

I believe I have found a trick to unreel such a reel without damaging the emulsion.

I think the issue occurs because the film shrinks over the years, causing incredible pressure between the emulsion and the adjacent layers of film. This pressure makes the film mold to the microscopic landscape of the emulsion of the other layer. When you try to unroll it normally, the pressure is released while parts of the emulsion are still locked with the film of the other layer.

The trick I found is to unroll it from the inside. Remove the core forcefully, insert a smaller cylinder in its place, tape the internal end of the film to that smaller cylinder, and reel the film onto it from the inside.

Up to now I only tried it twice on doomed reels and it worked both times.

Update!
This trick is ONLY to be used when the emulsion is on the outside of the roll. When the emulsion is on the inside then unroll from the outside:

Emulsion outside of roll: Unroll from the inside
Emulsion inside of roll: Unroll from the outside

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 31

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Looking for a solution to a problem with YouTube uploads.

Download this file to see the problem: we.tl/t-3XOo16OmDV (link expires on March 4th 2024)

I recently started using vp9 as an encoder for the video I wish to send to YouTube. In the present zip file you can find the file I sent: "whatISentToYoutube.webm" which visual qualities are super great for the mere 4.8Mb/s bitrate I chose to match YouTube's logic . After upload to YouTube. When I later on watched the video on their platform I deadfully noticed a stutter in the picture, especially with the slow and medium pans.

I downloaded the high resolution vp9 from Youtube using:
yt-dlp_linux -o whatCameBackFromYoutube.webm -f 313 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57ol...
and I compared the ffprobe video outputs of both my file and theirs:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'whatISentToYoutube.webm':
Metadata:
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: qt
MAJOR_BRAND : qt
MINOR_VERSION : 512
ENCODER : Lavf59.27.100
Duration: 00:02:33.67, start: -0.007000, bitrate: 4829 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: vp9 (Profile 0), yuv420p(tv, bt709/bt709/unknown, progressive), 3072x1320, SAR 1:1 DAR 128:55, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
Metadata:
HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler
VENDOR_ID :
TIMECODE : 01:00:00:00
ENCODER : Lavc59.37.100 libvpx-vp9
DURATION : 00:02:33.674000000
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'whatCameBackFromYoutube.webm':
Metadata:
ENCODER : Lavf59.27.100
Duration: 00:02:33.68, start: -0.007000, bitrate: 4832 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: vp9 (Profile 0), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 3072x1320, SAR 1:1 DAR 128:55, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
Metadata:
DURATION : 00:02:33.666000000
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Metadata:
DURATION : 00:02:33.681000000
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So even if my encoder was vp9 and my bitrate was even lower than theirs, they re-encoded it and, somehow, they found a way to totally mess it up.

Here are the equivalent of the ffmpeg encoding commands I used to create "whatISentToYoutube.webm":
ffmpeg -i "HighBitrateHQX_350Mbps_10bits_Video.mov" -vf "yadif,format=yuv420p" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -vb 4800k -pass 1 -passlogfile "tmpfile.log" -acodec libopus -ab 128k -f null "/dev/null"
ffmpeg -i "HighBitrateHQX_350Mbps_10bits_Video.mov" -vf "yadif,format=yuv420p" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -vb 4800k -pass 2 -passlogfile "tmpfile.log" -acodec libopus -ab 128k "whatISentToYoutube.webm"

Here are the questions:
-What causes the stuttering on their version of the video?
-Am I the only seeing the stuttering?
-Can I avoid them from stuttering by adding some options to my encoding?
-Should I refrain myself from ever using vp9 myself? (and stop suffering with the huge encoding time) and send them a high bitrate version instead to let them deal with it?

1 year ago | [YT] | 10

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The same picture (but with a better resolution) and 2 more of that same event... and this time we can see Nathan from Trailer Trash.

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1 year ago | [YT] | 62

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Thanks to my friend Nathan from Trailer Trash and from the owner of Highlands Cinemas in Kinmount, Ont. I could acquire a lot of 1000+ trailers. Here's a photo of an happy me taken by Nathan. At one per day, I should be able to last 3 years with this

1 year ago | [YT] | 99

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NEW PATREON PAGE

scanning movie trailers is one of my hobbies, it is fun but it cost me money to buy these reels of 35mm film, it is not a source of revenue in any way, worse, it is a constant source of expense. I will continue to spend money on this hobby but my wallet is limited and I sometimes will have to take breaks.

Help me buying more rolls, become a patron!

www.patreon.com/movietrailers?fan_landing=true

3 years ago | [YT] | 50

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Here's some samples from a scan I made from a Popeye episode from 1960, I was all happy with it, I refined my stabilization while doing it and, although a small degradation, the colors look great..
Prior to scanning it I searched the PTO databases to look if this work was copyrighted and I was happy not to find the obligatory renewal around 1988 (28 years after first registration for work before 1978) and for a while I thought this work to be public domain.

But I was wrong, the work has been renewed, it just was under the typo "Barbeque for Two" and the copyrights owner is blocking publication on Youtube.

I don't understand why some still could publish them anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRnkJ...

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