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Michael Brown
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1522
From: Bradford, England
Registered: May 2001

posted 07-08-2001 08:43 AM

Bobby, Did the Birdcage have a Dolby Digital track. All the posters and the end credits list it as DTS-Stereo/DTS Digital.

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 07-08-2001 09:06 AM

I'm pretty sure the Birdcage had a DD track....I seem to remember that the DTS time-code got messed up during printing...R-3 had R-1s time-code so when R-3 hit....the sound was from R-1.

Steve

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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 07-09-2001 11:18 AM

Michael Pace said: "what attracted my attention was the fact that the print had 'Argentina' instead of the normal 'International' on the head leaders...I played the first spool just to make sure that it was going to speak in English and not in Spanish...if I remember rightly, all the prints were imported copies."

Making release prints is a GLOBAL business, often determined by plant loading, labor costs, and exchange rates. Prints for the USA often are printed and processed in Canada or Italy.

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Michael Pace
Film Handler

Posts: 64
From: Dalby, Queensland, Australia
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 07-11-2001 09:49 AM

John Pytlak said " Making release prints is a GLOBAL business,...."

In recent times we have been receiving a substantial number of our prints from Atlab who have a plant in Sydney.

We have had prints from Technicolor which have come from Middlesex in England and a few prints which are processed in Canada.

Also from the States we receive quite a few that have been 'rejuvinated' after their initial release in the USA and then
are released in Australia later.

One print even had a brand new spool one. MOst of these prints have a very distinctive smell which is a dead give away as soon as the box is opened.

For some reason the prints from the States with SDDS tracks on them seem to work better than some of the film that is processed in Australia.

Our print of 'Moulin Rouge' is a good example of having troubles. In spool eight we started to experience trouble with the SRD track to the extent that it was actually 'stuttering'and we were forced to manually pull it back into analoque. It was then transferred to an auditorium that has SDDS and the same spool would not play in SDDS.

A new spool eight was ordered and placed into service which fixed the SRD problem and when tried again in SDDS only one of the SDDS tracks is working. It is the main track that is running and the response in the auditirium sounds good, the other track is simply not there.

I have watched the two leds that indicate the track status and only one led is lit and the other does not even flicker on for the full length of the spool.

Our print of 'Pearl Harbor' has not missed a beat and it is also an Atlab print from Sydney.

Kind regards,

Michael.

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John Pytlak
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Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 07-11-2001 01:25 PM

The UV-cured coatings used to "rejuvenate" the backside of used release prints can have a very pungent, even acrid, odor. If you look carefully at the print by reflected light, you can usually see the coating, which is usually only applied to the area between the perforations. The coatings cannot be removed, as the are impervious to water and most solvents.

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