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Mikey QACTV7 wrote on 5/23/2010, 7:11 PM
Thanks for the memories. I still remember sniffing the film cleaner and getting high. Its no wonder I was so creative back then. Not sure but I may have dated the chick in the 2 Inch quad video. Hey, maybe thats my problem I need to go back to film cleaner. They say things always come back in style.
musicvid10 wrote on 5/23/2010, 9:17 PM
Excuse me. That "film cleaner" was pure trichlorethylene.
Glad you've got a few brain cells left. If you've got any liver cells, I'm glad for that too . . .
Serena wrote on 5/23/2010, 9:32 PM
Checking the label: "Warning: HARMFUL VAPOUR. Use with adequate ventilation. Avoid prolonged or repeated breathing of vapour. Avoid prolonged or repeated contact with skin and eyes."

But did you use cleaner with video tape? I was going to suggest that the vapour Mickey was sniffing was film cement, but then thought not appropriate to the medium. Vaguely I remember a splicer for 2" tape, so maybe possible. People do inhale strange chemicals!

Rory Cooper wrote on 5/23/2010, 10:56 PM
Ok so Pull the lever has been replaced with drag n drop.. hell we’ve come a long way in video editing

I remember years back still making bromides for type and overlays and setting up polystyrene 3d text cutouts for a shoot. Had to paint the text and then still had to operate a few barn doors for spotlight effect during the shoot and then go make coffee for everyone. Buy the time I was old enough to operate that lever they replaced it. Video editing sucks.

Mikey QACTV7 wrote on 5/24/2010, 5:31 AM
If you did not splice film back then, you did not work in the industry. Just opening the bottle of film cleaner in a small room would get you high. Today we could sue our employers after being intoxicated by film cleaner. Maybe thats why we use flash media to record instead of film. "We have come along way baby"
musicvid10 wrote on 5/24/2010, 9:28 AM
Trichlorethylene was used as a general anesthesia in millions of surgeries and baby deliveries in the 1950's, until they realized how toxic it was to liver and brain cells.

My dad, a GP and GS, would come home from the hospital reeking of the stuff, sometimes dizzy and with slurred speech, then have the worst headaches the next morning.

I worked with it for a good part of twenty years in commercial photofinishing, the plants would buy it in 55 gal. drums. But there were other chemicals in the plants that were far more toxic -- paraphenylenediamine, formaldehyde, cyanide, methanol, sodium hyposulfite, sodium hydroxide, lithium chloride, hydrogen sulfide, to name a few.