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Subject: Re; [Leica] OT: movie question, with apologies
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Fri May 13 14:33:43 2005
References: <200505131601.j4DFvrEM036524@server1.waverley.reid.org> <4285186C.3030904@verizon.net>

On May 13, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Stan Yoder wrote:

> I thought the countdown was called the "academy leader."

Some leaders are used to project a field chart for a given film format, 
like Academy 1:85 / 1:66,
Super35, etc. This enables the projectionist to properly adjust the 
projection mask,
the mask of the actual projection screen, check focus etc.

A reel may be assembled as followed:

At the head (start) of a roll of film usually consists of some blank 
leader, so the projectionist has
some extra material to work with when he threads the projector.

This may be followed by a field chart for a particular film format 
(Academy, S35 etc).
This field chart usually contains a focus target.

Then you may get the countdown leader with the sync pop.

Finally you get your footage. Visual effects footage may contain a 
slate with information
pertaining to the footage and color reference patches. Usually these 
slates run for 50 frames or so
and are at the head of the footage.


feli

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