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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 06-23-2001 02:06 AM

my first official print build up.
"With a friend like Harry", terrible condition print I built TODAY.
I open the can and find an empty reel #1. uppon closer inspection I find that reel#1 is on the reel labled #2, and so up the chain. after reel four, I find that none of the leaders match

the last bozo that had the print was lazy and didnt want to tear down two small reels, so he/or she just cut the film when the reel was full. aside from that, reels 4 and 7 were very splicy, what seemed like 30 splices. two sections of missing footage, and lots of sections of those polyester crease marks. This all had to be delt with at 3:00 when the first show was at 7:00(both shows only brought in 12 people and 1 booth tour)I am going to suggest a replacement print. Its things like this that make a person almost glad for digital cinema, and yes this is coming from a film diehard. all thanks to pesky companies like techicolor, who you know is doing this deliberately to encorage DLP.

Oh, and did I mention the two sections of missing footage that were, you know, somewhat crucial to the plot

After all this I came home and talked with paul thompson over a bowl of spaghetti

Josh

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-23-2001 02:22 AM

My first was in the manual carbon arc days. All reels were hand re-wound, inspected and repaired. With the US Navy in those days, it was common practice to do an inspection before and after the showing. The name of the movie was Flight of the Phoenix in 1967.

When I was a field service tech, I mounted my first print on a platter, and held an instruction seminar when I did that. It was a Xetron 535 platter, but I can't recall the name of the movie.

Knowing Josh, I'll bet he did the best job possible under the existing conditions.

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