Wet Gate Optical Printer, 16mm (clip 30)

Julia Nicoll demonstrates the wet gate optical printer at Colorlab in Rockville, Maryland. This machine is used to copy damaged or shrunken film on to a new piece of film, by re-photographying it on to new film stock. The liquid in the wet gate is used to hide scratches on the old film.

http://www.colorlab.com/archives.html

The Colorlab Archives Division is a telecine facility servicing producers requiring film-to-tape transfers of the huge film archives holdings of the various government and private film archives in the Washington, DC area. It is also a full-service film preservation laboratory in all formats.
Colorlab
5708 Arundel Ave
Rockville, MD 20852
Telephone 301.770.2128
Fax 301.816/0798