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Author Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers) Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-04-2004 01:31 AM                     Platter disc? Huh? It was a Strong platter if that is what you are asking.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-04-2004 04:48 PM                        Sorry, It was late and I was tired.. I meant whta type of platter disc was on the makeup table... looks like it has been painted black? I'm giving the instructions to my 'tinkerer' tonight. Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-04-2004 10:35 PM                     I'm not sure who makes that. It will wind up to 6000' of film on a core. I presume it's a product of Strong. It's a little wobbly and easily bent, but still does a decent job. The purpose of that being used on that demo video was to show just how smooth and tight the clutch packed the film. (Notice the guy bashing his knuckle into the side of the roll?) With proper winds like that, damage during shipping and cinch marks simply do not happen.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-17-2004 06:20 PM                     So...here we go again! Those little green dots on the orange cans mean nothing but trouble. This time, I got two prints of "The Terminal" that had been shown as sneaks. Previous handler of print #489- you suck. It was bad enough that you taped your heads and tails back on, but did you have to leave that obnoxious yellow tape on the print? It was a bitch to get off. To make matters worse, you just couldn't resist painting the edge of each head with some sort of yellow marker, and left two reference frames as well. My breakdown guys will have a ball with this one. The previous handler of print # 463- I was impressed!! Your print was pristine. Good job of reattaching heads and tails with clean tape on one side of the print, which was easy to get off. But alas! You also left two reference frames on the heads and tails and painted two feet of each head with some sort of white paint. You are probably a good film handler from the old school (like me), but you need to get with the program and into the 21st century.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 06-22-2004 05:50 PM                     To whomever last handled Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), print #1917, YOU SUCK!! Although this print has layers and layers of splice tape on the heads and tails, you whom handled it last were the worst offender. There was edge marking tape residue for at least THREE FEET on each tail... Do you not have lights around your booth for tear down? Even the projectionists I know that claim to have difficulty finding reel breaks don't need a halo to tell them when a splice is coming up! For some reason also, you chose to mark each head, H X REEL X with a marking pencil just before your two ID frames, H1 being misspliced at that. Somehow, on several reels, this pencil was coloring the last foot of soundtrack as well... Why and how did you glob this on?! I can't wait to see if my cleaning efforts were worth it or if your excessive residue causes sticky splices that stop my interlock for the movie camp tomorrow. I hope that tape stuck to your fingers, all 15 feet of it. Of course, you left all the residue so I doubt that happened.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-08-2004 01:21 AM                    Before I "out" anyone can someone describe the opening of "King Arthur" for me? We went straight from policy crap to seeing the last few seconds of the main title card. How much was missing?  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 07-08-2004 01:37 AM                     There was a lot of black film after the attached trailer then it goes straight into the title shot, probably didnt lose much.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-08-2004 09:32 AM                    Not even a studio logo?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-08-2004 11:21 AM                     I didn't assemble a King Arthur, but I remember Pearl Harbor did that too. Sounds like to me the theater you are about to out (and rightfully so anyway) just rolled down until they saw framelines and whacked it like the good little morons they are.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-08-2004 11:31 AM                    No studio logo. Just like Pirates.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-08-2004 01:07 PM                    Well if there was no logo then I would have to see it again elsewhere to see how much, if any, was actually missing before making any claim of bad film handling.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-08-2004 01:43 PM                     There was about ten to fifteen seconds of black, somewhere in that range.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-08-2004 02:50 PM                    But how much main title and did it fade up gradually or just pop up for a few seconds fully formed which I think is what I saw.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 07-08-2004 03:17 PM                     I believe there was a fade in for about 3 or 4 frames.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-08-2004 03:25 PM                     There's also music slowly fading up during the black, and going full-force by the time the title fades up. So who are the culprits? =TMP=  |  IP: Logged

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