Film lines

Please excuse an obvious newbie question, but I am editing a fast action piece that desperately needs film lines. You know the ones, those lines that jump across the screen while watching an old movie? I have beeen trying to find a way to create these, but have not been able to do so as of yet. Are there any plugins that I might be able to look at for just such an effect?
Any advice would be most welcome!

Yet another free way if you own DVD Studio Pro, is to use the film grain from a template and composite it over your footage in FCP using whatever blending mode works best.
You can find the file used in the template by searching for "leader cover NTSC" and then control click and choose "show package contents". Within "contents/resources" you will find "Bluemaster_loop_NTSCv2.mov".
Copy it elsewhere on your drive and import it into FCP. Lay it on top of you video and copy the loop as many times as you need. Then use a blending mode that acheives the look you want.
I know it is a few steps to do this, but it is free and gives a very organic look. But you may not want the film to be that jacked-up, and unfortunatly, there is not really an control over the grain, jitter, lines and degree as to which it messes with your footage. You may get that control from a bonified plugin.
Hope that helps and makes some sort of sense.

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