Notes

Film Action loan of MTM recorders

The local non-profit Film Action Oregon has been kind enough to loan me (and the projects of 40 Frames) several MTM recorders. These machines were once in use at the old Teknifilm Labs (Portland’s full service film lab that died in July of 1998), after-which they were used by a local sound editor on several big budget features before they landed at Film Action last year. I’d been looking all over the country for recorders like these, so I was fortunate to find several sitting in my own backyard. These model R106-UV recorders have AC drive motors instead of the late-model DC servo. Apparently, Frank Hood, the original founder of Teknifilm, added the selsyn drives for running multiple machines in interlock. Wayne, one of the last people to operate these machines at Teknifilm and a sound engineer at Sonic Arts, has agreed to lend some assistance in getting the system up and running.

May 04, 2007