When I was working with 16mm film in the late ’60s we used two kinds of tape splicers for work print: the ”Guillotine,” which cut with a metal side blade and the ”Rivas,” which cut with a metal blade and usually cut the splicing tape with a serrated plate on top of the splice in the middle of the frame. Pennebaker and maybe others redesigned Rivas splicers by attaching a small razor cutter that would cut the tape on the frame line, making a more-or-less ”invisible” splice. I think a Guillotine splicer was used in 35mm also. For a permanent glue splice a ”hot splicer” was used in both 16mm and 35mm, which cut a frame with a metal block. You would lose a frame with each splice and the splice was visible unless used with black leader in the ”A & B roll” contact printing system. What happened between the 1920s and the 1960s? I’ve seen that picture of Elizaveta Svilova but I’m curious about Peter Kubelka. Cheers, Robert
Robert Withers withe...@earthlink.net
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