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Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers)
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Scott Norwood
Film God
Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-16-2004 10:17 AM
As much as I respect Frank, I'm going to disagree with him on adding emulsion-scratched cues to prints.
If a print arrives either without cues or with grossly mis-spaced cues, I see no problem whatsoever with adding well-made Clint Phare cues in the proper locations. The cues should have been there anyway and will be useful to other theatres which may get the print, especially if said other theatres don't have proper cue markers and might do worse damage to the print. Better to have one theatre provide "cues done right" than to have several that add "cues done wrong" and cause more damage to the print.
Of course, the above only applies to prints without good, usable lab. cues. At that point, there's no excuse for adding cues (or scribing over existing ones), and certainly not on more than one frame. The possible exception would be the addition of a curtain cue in the lower-right corner during the credits, but, again, that can be a single-frame cue and won't be noticed by most people anyway (since most will be gone by the end of the credits, sadly).
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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-17-2004 01:10 AM
As much as I really, really respect Scott, I'm in Frank Angel's camp on this one. Not just the prints with warnings, but too many beautiful, mint prints with platter house frame attrition, too many prints with an intolerable, distracting blizzard of cues at the end, too much seeing into the future & seeing a contribution to the problem. I just decided I wasn't going to be a part of it any more.
My Clint Phare marker doesn't come out of the box of camping gear anymore. I've actually found it easier & faster, after having to had to run it through the frame counter anyway, to just stick an adhesive, removable dot on there than take it out, stick it in the marker, scribe the cues, take it out again. Speed too often is driving inspection, anyway.
I've actually gotten lazier, faster, & less sticker-applying than Frank, & just mark the motor start. The network clock that has permanently burned onto my retinas & into my brain just counts it down to the changeover.
It would be just as simple & the same speed improvement for anyone else to just get one of those cheapo $4 stopwatches from Sports'R'Us, wear it on a lanyard around the neck tangled up with the binoculars, & hold it in the same hand with the thumb you use to punch the sound changeover.
Click strips are cool, but too artsy-craftsy for me.
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And somehow, TAP thought that R4 was grade A, even through the green scratches during the last few minutes of the reel. With care, theis print might last for years if the dreamworks logo doesn't get any rougher.
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