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Topic: I really need to start splicing head and tail leaders back on the prints
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John T. Hendrickson, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 889
From: Freehold, NJ, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 01-10-2002 05:11 PM
Here's another solution if you are uncomfortable breaking down on the small MUT.Back the print off the platter onto 6,000 ft reels. Take them back to your make-up bench. There you can reattach the heads and tails of each reel in better light. Easier to peel off your splicing tape and make your splices, too! Granted, you ship the print out tails up, but look at it this way. If it goes to a platter house, it's a snap to build tails up onto 6,000's and you don't need to rewind- just spin onto the platters.
If the print goes to a changeover house, it is easy for the projectionist to inspect for cue marks and then run the print onto house reels.
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Brent Mahaney
Film Handler
Posts: 43
From: Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 01-11-2002 01:09 AM
You know, before you start thinking to yourself, "Lazy S.O.B's," you have to realize that there are some theatres that actually teach this quick breakdown method. When I started in booth, I was taught to tear the splice, attach the heads and tails with masking tape, and then throw it in the can. I had absolutely no idea that it could cause trouble for the next theatre that received the print. Being a rehabilitated improperly-trained projectionist, I tend to have a little more mercy on those booth people who don't know any better. Hopefully, threads like this one will serve the purpose of teaching the professional way to tear down.
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-13-2002 12:47 AM
Just about any of the splicing tapes CAN be peeled off, though the crap is certainly more work.On "Zebra tape" peel off the top layer, thereby leaving the sticky part behind. Use masking or like tape to pull the glue off by pressing the masking tape onto the glue area and pulling the masking tape off rapidly...repeat as needed to remove the glue. Steve ------------------
"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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John Hawkinson
Film God
Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-08-2002 07:41 PM
Wow. I just happened across this thread by accident. Brad comments, "I have to chop off multiple frames because I cannot get that damned masking tape goo off of the film and I don't want a brain wrap in the middle of my show from it."Umm, masking tape is annoying, but it's not that annoying. Use of the correct solvent will solve the problem for you, at the cost of spending ~30 seconds scrubbing at the tape residue with a solvent-wetted cotton wipe. There should not be any reason to cut off frames due to residue. I'm not sure what solvent to recommend; we're happy w/ inhibitted 1,1,1 trichloroethane (aka Renovex), but of course you can't buy Renovex anymore, and can't trivially buy 1,1,1 trichloroethane legally (manufacture now prohibitted in a number of countries, including the US, by the Treaty of Montreal). But I know there are plenty of other solvents you can use. Some may have inconveniently low flash points, or be slower to evaporate, but that shouldn't be a serious impediment to using them on single frames of film, as opposed to coating the entire print. Some people have recommended using naptha, lighter fluid, etc. And there's of course Renovex II, though I haven't tried it. --jhawk
(who spends more time cleaning off tape gunk than you might imagine...)
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