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Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers)
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 12-17-2004 03:54 AM
Same problem on my Lemony Snickets. The attached trailer was cut at visible frame lines. No lead in black or fade out at the end, and it was cut during the fade-up of the Paramount logo. Fortunately I was able to ultrasonic splice the logo back together such that it looked fine, but that friggin' trailer went straight into the trash. I'm pretty sure that was an ETS depot job to blame.
Oh and by the way, the Regal / UA Cinema 6 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, you suck too! I got your print of Spanglish, which I doubt you ran more than twice. While I will give congratulations for managing to break the print down with single sided tape splices, all the leaders back on the proper reels and even without soundtracks crossed...you used a "generous" 1-2 inches of cheap masking tape which came apart during transit to me, leaving a few of the reels in an unraveled mess! It's just masking tape guys. It's mega-cheap. Use at LEAST 4 inches! ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
But that's not all, thanks to whomever built it up who felt the need to put Sharpie tick marks on the framelines during the darker reel changes...right through the SDDS and Dolby Digital soundtracks!!! Why can't you put tiny dots on the non-soundtrack edge in between the sprocket holes? And why did you feel the need to mark up a FOOT like this? Thanks to you, those reel changes now have a noticeable jump in action because I had to cut it out due to the soundtrack damage.
And really, what's with leaving two ID frames on some of the leaders? Seriously now, why?
Oh I wish that was all, but it seems the person who built this print isn't smart enough to know that the barcode cues go on the base side of the print...so he/she of course put the cues on BOTH sides of the print, and had no courtesy to put the cues ON TOP OF a piece of splicing tape so that they could EVER be removed again. Thanks guys. Thanks for the nice big ugly blobs now in my presentation.
Speaking of blobs...how did you manage to get the print so dirty? Was there a duststorm in New Mexico when you had this print? The pads came off with an absurd amount of dirt, and the quantity of dirt specs through the picture was worse than what I see at dollar houses. I'm quite baffled as to how you did it!
I will spare you the rant of how SHITTY the reel changes looked. Did you let the ends of the reels slap around on the rewind bench or perhaps drag them around the parking lot?
But of course dirt can be removed, at least to a certain extent. So with that, thank you for laying that lovely dancing scratch down the right side of the image through the ENTIRE MOVIE for me.
You suck, and I hope you get billed for the cost of my replacement print.
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