The Inspiration for the Project is largely drawn from Constantin Gillies' great series of "Extraleben" books. In the first of which the heroes find some Information on punched tape. To get the Information from the tape, they photograph it in segments and then parse the pictures.

My parents have quite a frew Super 8 movies from my childhood days and I always thought about having them digitized one day. I thought about the process that was described in the book and wondered, if it could be fesible to scan Super 8 movied on a flatbed scanner...but since this apparently would require quite a lot of precision I thought I might be better off whith replicating the punched tape feat from the book first so I went off to ebay to get myself a few meters of vintage punched tape.