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LATHAM LOOP [1 record]

Record 1 1982-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
OBS

Slack section of film designed to provide necessary play when film is being fed from a continuously moving sprocket to an intermittently moving sprocket, thus avoiding the tearing which would otherwise take place. Originally called a Latham loop, after its inventor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
OBS

Courbe ou espace de sécurité donné à la pellicule dans les caméras, les projecteurs et les tireuses pour éviter en cas d'arrêt brusque, la rupture du film.

Spanish

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