Wazzles said:

mverta said:

X-Wings Dive towards the Death Star

_Mike

Do you physically clean the prints before you scan them or is all your work done digitally?

I can't answer for MVerta, but several years back I worked in a telecine bay and almost all the film we received (mostly 35mm and Super 16mm OCN from local commercial productions) went on the film cleaning machine before going up on the scanner. This film cleaner, however, had no bath. It used fluffy dacron rollers moistened with isopropyl alcohol. Even after cleaning, the freshly shot and processed negative would still have some dirt and debris. The scanner itself had slightly tacky rubberized rollers to further aid dirt removal as the footage rolled. After each reel or two was transferred, the dirty tacky rollers would be replaced with a freshly washed set.

I can only imagine how much embedded dirt there is on 35-year-old projection print. I wouldn't even know what method of chemical cleaning - if any - would be safe for a Tech IB print.