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Author Topic: Anyone know this splicer? Sheldon Harris Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Chicago, IL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-25-1999 08:58 AM                        Hi all... I need a 35mm tape splicer and have found one for sES-7869 ale. Can anyone tell me whether the "ES-7869" made in Italy bearing name "Dr. Leo Cazzola" is any good. I have one of their 16mm tape splicers which has been good, but I'm not familiar with the 35mm model.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-25-1999 10:54 AM                        If it's the 35mm version of the 16mm "guillotine" splicer, then, yes, it is a decent splicer, and is probably worth about $100 if the blades are in good shape. Replacement blades cost about $75 apiece, so make sure that it's in decent condition before you buy it. The Neumade splicer is better (for 35mm; I haven't tried the 16mm Neumade, but I'm sure that it's good), but is at least twice as expensive. On the Century projectors that I'm familiar with, splices made with a guillotine splicer will run through slightly unsteady, but splices made with the Neumade model run perfectly and are nearly un-noticeable.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-25-1999 11:13 AM                     I'm not familiar with that make/model splicer, but if you are searching for a Neumade I have a couple of those posted at the Equipment For Sale forum here.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-12-2011 01:08 PM                 It has been 4309 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Simon Wyss Film Handler Posts: 80 From: Basel, BS, Switzerland Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-12-2011 01:08 PM                     Hi, Sheldon If I may help correcting that name: It’s Dr. Leo Catozzo. His name was actually Cattozzo with two t but somewhere on his lifeline somebody misspelled. He was a friend of Federico Fellini and became allergic to acetone, a film cement component. His living as editor being threatened, he had to make a decision. The decision was to invent a means for joining film ends without cement: the then unknown splicer with colourless clear self-adhesive tape. I personally prefer the splicer by Carlos Rivas. But things are often a matter of taste, aren’t they?  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-12-2011 01:19 PM                    WOW!!!! It took 12 years for this one to float to the top.  |  IP: Logged

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