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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-04-2000 04:53 PM

As for using gloves while handling film--I don't do it. I doubt that it makes much difference, anyway, assuming that both hands and gloves are kept clean. Yes, I would wear gloves if I were doing negative cutting or something like that, but I just don't see the point when handling release prints. In any case, fingers will only be touching the image and soundtrack area of the three or four frames on either side of a splice at most.

Before handling film (which includes inspection, rewinding, and threading up), I always wash my hands with soap and dry them throughly. It's also important to keep the rewind bench area super-clean and dust off all parts of the bench that the film might have any chance of touching during the inspection process.

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Chris Erwin
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 195
From: Olive Hill,KY
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 03-05-2000 10:08 AM

I come from a history of working in a darkroom,so I'm used to no fingerprints in the image area. I wear white cotton gloves splicing 16mm and Super 8mm. It's too little for me to handle.

I think Scott brought up a point when he mentioned the end of the policy trailer where the splice has to be peeled off and re-spliced. Use only good quality splice tape! I get prints sometimes and the splice tape mimics the destructive properties of that damned 'ol masking tape (or worse duct tape) that I have seen shabby operators put heads and tails on with!

--Chris

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Dustin Mitchell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1865
From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 03-05-2000 10:52 PM

Bah, Christie shutter's are pieces of crap. The new wing of our 12 plex has 6 Christie projectors. In 2 years all the timing belts have gone at least twice, some three times. We now keep a 'timing belt kit' in our booth. This way if one should happen to go at an inconvienient time (for some reason the ones in our two THX theater's like to go on Saturday nights with sold out crowds) all the tools we need to change one out are there. The first time we did it ourselves (the two previous times we had MTS do it-don't laugh) it took an hour and a half. We can do it in 10 to 15 minutes now.

A question for you guys though. One of our shutter is siezed up. To be clear, it will still spin normally, but when you have to change the timing belt, timing it is a pain in the butt becuase even if you have the timing screws all the way out it won't spin freely. Any solutions to this problem?

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