A Movie Magician Digitized Hundreds of 35MM Movie Trailers, Here’s A Selection for Millennials Wanting a Nostalgia Trip

From the first examples of Eadweard Muybridge's Horse in Motion and on through the history of motion pictures, we have subjected ourselves to the illusion that a stream of pictures moving at a fast rate is a display in motion. Film is where mechanics, psychology, and art collide. But there's something special about the idiosyncrasies and spottiness of old film. It doesn't take you out of the experience as much as builds a camaraderie One DIYer has been working to give us back that sense of illusion. As first spotted by The Film Stage , YouT Denis-Carl Robidoux developed a machine of his own design called a Gugusse Roller, which uses a Raspberry Pi, camera, stepper motors, alongside dozens of other custom and household parts to capture and digitize film as it winds through several spools, much in the same way film is reeled through old school projectors. Using that tech, the Y reproduce film-like quality onto YouT Robidoux described in comments how, excluding prep time, a single trailer can take his machine about 10 hours to record with another hour used for stabilizing the film, not to mention the time it takes to edit and upload it to YouT… Read full this story

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