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Author Topic: Reels Made of Flexible Non-Breaking Material Jerry Chase Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1068 From: Margate, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-06-2002 11:26 AM                       JP wrote: "For a bit of nostalgia, and to meet a lady who was a legend among film inspectors, check out the story about Ola McElhinney of Benton Brothers in Atlanta in issue H-50-5 (12/77) of Kodak's "Film Notes for Reel People" in the Film-Tech "Manuals" section." I'm fairly sure I met her personally. There was a short period when I used to drive from B'ham to Hotlanta to pick up my prints. (At 90mph it was a fast trip and I saved about $70 a trip after expenses.) I remember the Benton depot and the ladies inspecting prints. IIRC reel one was often the only reel inspected, even then, but stickers got put on all the reels in the cans. They were all nice folks at the depot.  |  IP: Logged Paul Turner Expert Film Handler Posts: 115 From: Corvallis, OR, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-07-2002 02:16 PM                     Friday night I had a plastic reel fragment and a shard hit the wall and bounced 12 feet to the booth stairs. Unfortunatly, it went thru my finger to get there. Did finish building the print and got the show on the screen before the trip to the ER, however. If this print had come in a plastic bag, I'd have saved my finger three stitches. Makes me long for the days of metal reels and NFS. At least if a metal reel was bent, you could bend it back, and I never had one fragment on me.  |  IP: Logged

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