Moviola Film Horse - Holds your Leaders close at hand. Also HFC & others.

Description

It's a Classic Film Horse - Holder for your reels of Leader.
It's always handy to have a small rack on your bench to hold various types & colors of leader close at hand - easy to feed onto your reel.  Different colors for Head & Tail, and numbered threading leaders.  This "Horse" is on a solid Walnut Base that measures 7.25" x 11.5 inches.  The Arms are 10" high, and the space between them for reels measures 6.5 inches.  Reels are not included - but shown to demonstrate the concept.  The steel cross-rod is slightly smaller (1/4 inch diameter) than the holes on 8mm/16mm/35mm reels, and smaller than Super8 & 9.5mm.  While this would hold large capacity reels, It is usually used for no more than 400' reels.  (The reels shown include 50', 100', and the largest one is 200'.)  If you use it for larger reels (A+B Roll Editing) you would want to screw it down to the bench.
It is shipped disassembled in a Flat Rate Padded Envelope.  You will need a Phillips Screwdriver for assembly.
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Tip:  Film reels should always be stored vertically - never horizontally as the weight of a stack of reels can break off edges of film that are sticking out.   In fact - you never want to stack large reels of film horizontally - so buy a film rack for Vertical Storage - or build one out of 2x2" wood rails held about 6 inches apart.
Tip:  After being discontinued for a couple of decades, VITAFILM has been reintroduced.  This is a solvent that CURES vinegar syndrome - usually with a simple cleaning.  Advanced cases require that you put the reel of film inside the wide side of a metal film can, and soak the film in VITAFILM.  You can find it through several venders on eBay.  Amazing stuff!  Remember that Vinegar Syndrome is a problem with the Acetate Base of the film - not the Emulsion.
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By the way - I'm an Editor.  I've used this type of equipment for years.  I see "Garage & Estate Sale" equipment listed on eBay for incredibly high prices.  I sell working tools in good condition, and that's how I like it.
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And a little History.
“Iwan Serrurier started his Moviola company in 1917 to build a home movie viewer. The name was a copy of
Victrola
since he thought his invention would do for home movie viewing what the Victrola did for home music listening. But the machine cost 0 in 1920 (that’s over ,000 in today’s dollars), so not many sales. An editor at the Studios of Douglas Fairbanks
suggested that Iwan should adapt the device for use by film editors. Serrurier did this and the Moviola as an editing device was born in 1924 with the first Moviola being sold to Douglas Fairbanks himself. All of the Major Studios jumped on board, and his invention was an immediate success.  A full line of Editing Equipment followed.
In 1966 Moviola was sold to Magnasync Corporation (a subsidiary of Craig Corporation) of North Hollywood for million. The new name was Magnasync/Moviola Corp. The new management immediately tripled its production and earned back its purchase price within 2 years.  Competitors sprang up.  Ediquip copied the equipment with excellent quality, and painted it Moviola Green, and was promptly sued by Moviola.  By the time the lawsuit was settled, the industry was fading, and Ediquip ended up buying both Moviola & Precision for Sound Equipment, adopting Moviola as the surviving name. In the transition period you are likely to find Moviola, Precision, and Ediqup equipment branded under any of those names.  Ediquip wasn’t the only company to copy Moviola – Japanese Company Takita also marketed vey similar equipment – many of the parts interchangeable just like Ediquip….
HFC - Hollywood Film Company also made excellent rewinds - but the parts are not interchangeable with any of the Moviola brands.  Moviola was sold to J&R Film in 1984.  They are not supporting any of the older film equipment any longer.