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The animation room in Currier Place resembles an art studio more than it does a film studies classroom. The tables are covered with film reels and paper marked with colorful streaks and designs. Some students work intently on the many computers lining the walls while others play with reels of film and the projector.
In the course HandMade Strategies: Re-Inventing the Wheel, Jodie Mack, assistant professor of film and media studies, strives to teach her students that cinema is not just a form of entertainment but also a fine art. The course focuses on both learning about and producing experimental and avant-garde film. Students presented their own experimental films on Tuesday night in the Loew Theater.
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They are supposed to do this. If you start to feed the film in the slot near the outside edge of the reel, you can them shimmy, shimmy the top and bottom parts and it will advance the film until it is all the way on the reel.
With metal reels, you have to start loading them in the center and sort of bow the film (as you know) to load
I have never been happy with plastic reels .. maybe because I make so many custom developments, I don't have time to wait for them to dry.
I would suggest you find a good used SS tank and some reels (that are not bent) and go back to your tried and true method of loading film.
If you really have to use the plastic ones,