The curtains are now up in my space. We used wooden batons to support the rail but had to manually drill a hole in the batons at an angle so that the rails would go through and remain the right height for the curtains.
I now have real problems with editing my footage. I had been trying to use cement but that didn’t work so someone said superglue works. It seemed to work initially but then the loops started breaking, the glue was jamming up the splicers and the film itself was breaking. I was on the verge of giving up the whole idea of Super 8mm film.
I emailed Rik from The Old Film Company where I had had my films developed and asked for his advice. He said never to use superglue as it damages any machinery you try to run the film through. He said that older films tend to be acetate so the cement splicing works with them whereas the more recent films, like the Super 8 are usually polyester so cement will not work and he recommended using tape as this would not damage my projector.
Rik sent me an email with the machine and tape he recommended but I had no way of guaranteeing that it would get to me in the post in time before the deadline Thursday but luckily Rik said he could process my order this evening and I could collect it from him at home in Bury St Edmunds the next morning.
