"There's a Hair in the Gate!" 1959 Cannes, France: 16mm Telecine at CinePost

This is what "Hair" in the gate looks like when the camera is scything the film. Caught on film in 1959, no going back now. This sequence was zoomed out by our telecine operator to show the entire film frame. You can see that the debris does not cross the frame line. This is how we show a clip to a client who can't remember seeing all that hairy stuff in the film frame before.

[@Fluteboy]

That is a bloody chestwig in the gate!

[@myronlenenski6554]

For sure! Thankfully the shooter figured out what was scratching his film in the camera before shooting 10 more rolls on their trip to France, really great footage of Paris 1951.

[@ThePaulv12]

Derek and Clive come to mind.

[@MORCOPOLO0817]

Are those shreds of film from the gate cutting into the film?

[@cinepost]

Yes,most likely!

[@MORCOPOLO0817]

@@cinepost How do you avoid that?

[@cinepost]

@@MORCOPOLO0817 use a small brush to clean the area in between each load. Our client saw he had a problem and cleaned his gate area…subsequent reels wear fine.