Get the high Quality Film Services with film boxes

Irrespective of what is your budget, you should be particularly able to find the most affordable equipment for the purpose of cleaning and viewing your film. When there is inexpensive equipment considered as opposed to the very expensive specialized equipment, it will indeed list the basic budget method first followed by the high end resources last.

Everyone who has the film should preferably invest in some of the vertical rewinders – the hand operated or the power rewinds, the editorial table with a light well would also be very helpful. An extra reel, the plastic film cans or the boxes, clean cotton gloves, safety glasses, lint-free cloth, marking pen and the labeling tools, and other basic supplies.

The Film cleaner, a means of particularly lubricating your film and the solvent resistant gloves should also be very well added to your gear. Also a well ventilated room and the appropriate masks should be used for the heck of safety's; some of the film cleaners are very toxic.

In order to inspect the film for any particular damage and the viewing for the budget minded a portable light box and a Loupe or some way of preferably inspecting your film with a high magnification factor which needs to be used. For the high end budget, the tabletop Filmcans viewers and the tabletop sound reader for the talkies.

For making the required repairs and also adding leader you will need the above items plus, perforated tape, a razor blade, scissors, presstape, film leader, film cement and a simple splicer. For the high end budget you may purchase the entire above plus for acetate film a high-level splicer with appropriate splicing tape and film cement as suitable. If you have polyester film use splicing tape or an ultrasonic splicer melts the film together with an ultrasonic signal.

Depending on how many different gauges of the film your collection has will govern how many unique setups you will be needed. The term Dual 8 means that it works with both Super 8mm and Regular 8mm. There are viewers that may work with the Dual 8 but will not work with 16mm or 35mm.

The vertical rewinds may be advertised as Dual 8 or just one of the 8mm's, so you must know what you need and what the sellers are listing. On eBay I purchased a board with 2 hand operated Craig rewinds mounted on it for the Regular 8 and only need a plastic adapter in order to rewind my Super 8.The film gauge is expressed in millimetres (mm) sometimes you will see Super 8 with or without the mm behind the 8 such as Super 8mm, it all means the same. Those are the two gauges that are most often used by Home Movie buffs. Acetate base film is what most Regular 8 was recorded on starting in 1932 and on and some Super 8 which was introduced in 1965; acetate was first used around 1909 and is utilized up to the present time in one form or another.