ARRI 416 User Manual

loop mark

transfer roller

The following procedures may be carried out in the light. 

•  Flip the magazine over so that the take-up door is 

uppermost and the top of the magazine is facing you. 

The ARRI on the door will be upside down.

•  Open the take-up side magazine door and latch back 

the lay-on roller arm. Fit an empty film core to the 

take-up core holder making sure that the core holder 

key is engaged in the key slot of the film core.

•  The film head should be protruding from the transfer 

roller 

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. Check that it is cut squarely through a 

perforation.

•  Thread the film head around the forward guide roller 

as indicated inside the magazine. Without touching the 

film core, push the film head into the upper sprocket roller 

until its teeth engage in the film perforations 

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.

•  Once the sprocket teeth have engaged in the film 

perforations, turn the film core until the film head 

emerges from the magazine throat.

•  Set the loop length by pulling the film head away from 

you and align it with the loop mark on the bottom of 

the magazine 

a

. Adjust the loop length by 

turning the take-up film core.

•  Now take your hand off the film core – there is enough 

inertia in the sprockets to maintain the loop length.

footage counter roller

film core

forward guide roller

upper 

sprocket roller

lower 

sprocket roller

rear guide roller

loop length mark