That’s a great book for old-school (for me current) film techniques.  I love 
wipe charts.  You could get custom wipe mattes made.  The filmmaker Andrew Lugg 
had a 5 minute left—to-right wipe matte made for his film Gemini Fire Extension.

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
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> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:20 PM, Eric Theise <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This figure appears in my copy of Roberts and Sharples' A Primer for 
> Film-Making (1971)–
> 
> <image.png>
> 
> –and I have questions.
> 
> Was there a company in the business of selling matte kits to labs? "140" 
> seems so specific and yet so arbitrary.
> 
> Has anyone ever come across a reel demonstrating all or most of these wipes? 
> A few I find perplexing, many I recognize or can imagine, but seeing them in 
> action would be instructive.
> 
> Happy to read any discussion this provokes, thanks.
> 
> Eric
> 
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