[Leica] OT: movie question, with apologies

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

wow, thanks.  i just love this group.  the collective "lug-opedia" is even
more comprehensive than wikipedia or britannica.  

thanks again,

-rei

On May13 09:08, Jay wrote:
> Feli is correct - "countdown leader".
> It counts down to "2" and there is a corresponding 1K beep to ensure that
> the show's sound and picture are in synch.
> A holdover from the days when sound and picture were separate (double
> system) a bit anachronistic nowadays.
> There is no number "1" or "0", it goes to black at the "2".
> Each of the numbers appears at one second intervals. Used to give the
> projectionist time to frame the print in the projector as well as check to
> see if the sound was playing properly. In a projector with 35mm motion
> picture film, the sounds precedes the picture by 26 frames.  As the
> projection gate and the sound head cannot occupy the same spot on the film
> and the film must be looped to allow for the intermittent projector 
> movement
> to move the film. The picture and sound are offset.
> First frame is first frame of picture at end of countdown.
> 
> Jay Ignaszewski
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
> Feli
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:48 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: movie question, with apologies
> 
> 
> Basically it's just called a countdown. Sometimes referred to it as a
> 'leader with a countdown"
> or a "countdown leader." These terms might differ on the east / west
> coast in the USA or in England.
> 
> 
> feli
> 

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