As Gioli enjoys saying, the cinema would never have been invented--indeed would not exist--with-out the
sprocket hole, the perforation in the celluloid that allows the film strip to be pulled by mechanical claws through the camera's gate during exposure and, later, in the process of editing, contact printing, and projection.
Solid Cutting cylinders CNC and EDM, Compressed Air Dies,
Sprocket Hole Punching Dies, Slitting and Perforating Cylinders, Crosscutting and Perforating Cylinders, Anvil Cylinders Print Cylinders Hot Stamping Tools, Screen Printing Rings, Gears, Envelope Making Dies.
Work-Order did add its own little touch to the revived logo by including 'Kodak' in bold, capital letters stacked vertically to the right of the 'K' to evoke the
sprocket holes on the edges of film rolls.
It's quite an art to recreate the look of a Victorian or Edwardian photograph, and Paddywac, alias Marty Dowling, has done well, even if the
sprocket holes are more appropriate to a 35mm frame from the early 1930s onward.
Several experts have also told Steve the films, thought to be 8mm, are in fact 9.5mm due to the
sprocket holes being in the centre of the reels rather than on the side.
For the duration of the film, the central image is flanked by two rows of
sprocket holes, which were created using a custom-built aperture gate that "worked as a sharp and precise mask." These
sprocket holes figure forth the filmstrip itself not only as the material support for the image but also as the apparatus for its very projection.
The company also provides units for punching
sprocket holes to the continuous stationery and label industries.
(Pieces from this exhibition will travel to the Venice Biennale this summer, where Mekas is representing Lithuania.) Printed from color slides, each of the "Frozen Film Frames" is an image of a strip of 16 mm film--usually three but occasionally two or four frames in length--typically including the row of
sprocket holes on one side and the optical sound stripe on the other.