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Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers)
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Bill Hill
Film Handler
Posts: 6
From: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 08-08-2005 11:33 AM
In response to Hill top Productions' handling of print #46 of "Me And You And Everyone We Know", I doubt very much that you received that print directly from us at the 2005 CineVegas Film Festival.
According to my records, the print was brand new when we received it, except for the fact that the head of reel #4 was folded back in on itself.
We NEVER run automation at any of the dozen plus festivals that my crew or I work. We remove any sensing tape we find. Sometimes we miss it. I don't believe any of my crew would miss the tape you describe, and, since it was a new print, that point is moot.
So, if there was none on it when we received it, and we never use it, it must have been somewhere else previous to you receiving it.
Our stickers are on the head of each reel that is inspected by us. We receive feedback from all over the world. In the 20 plus years that my company has been supplying these services to film festivals, this is the first complaint I have heard.
Curious that it takes place publicly when my web address is clearly printed on the inspection stickers. No one contacted us about the situation. One of my crew in Cleveland alerted me to this discussion.
Bill Hill
Hill Top Productions
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 08-26-2005 03:00 AM
quote: Phil Blake
I was send a box of seaweed. What type of operator does this and how do they get away with it.
Where I work in a discount, kiddie operated, 2-buck house, sometimes I opened up the cans, or that cumbersome plastic "fox-box" and find
"seaweed" in them - all snarled and tangled up pretty tight around the reels.
On some occasions, it's kinda not the operator's fault, yet it is - they just need to put fresh tape on the lead ends, or put a good length of tape to really hold the head of the lead down.
For sometimes, I've noticed that the leads were definitely taped down, but with all of the jiggling and sloshing around the reels do within the containers during shipment from the depot to theatre, and especially with one reel gone and in its place, trailers and the DTS discs, this will lead to the "seaweed syndrome" when it pertains to used prints.
We could also stick some of the blame on the depots for not opening up the containers and checking for this "seaweed syndrome" and doing the methods of preventing such an insident in the future.
Luckilly, TECH has solved this problem, for in the past, it was "seaweed city" in those orange cans a long while ago.
-Monte
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-06-2005 11:43 PM
Northwest Airlines... YOU SUCK!
...as far as 'film' presentation is concerned, anyhow.
The 'theatre' in question was Northwest flight 41 from Amsterdam to Minneapolis on Tuesday 6 September 2005. It was a clapped-out old DC-10 from the 1970s, probably. The seats were threadbare, the lav door wouldn't lock properly (with the result that you had to wedge the door shut with one foot behind you while taking aim, so to speak) and the in-flight entertainment was provided by an equally clapped out CRT video projector and a bulkhead screen about 3 feet across.
The economy class cabin had two of these arrangements, one for each section (behind and in front of the emergency exit doors). The one at the front showed a 16:9 image, while the one at the back was anamorphically squeezed into 4:3. This suggests to me that the source was a 16:9 DVD or MPEG server, but it could have been VHS long play by the time the projectors had finished with it. The three CRT tubes were misaligned on both projectors, causing an interesting and very different edge fringing pattern on each one (I had a view of both from my seat). The lamps were knackered out in both projectors, with the result that the picture was very dim. Admittedly the bright sunlight coming in through the windows didn't help (we took off at 11am and landed at 1am local times, and so were flying in the mid-morning sunshine throughout the 9 hours or so). The colour hue was very different between the two projectors, also.
The 'entertainment' started with the safety stuff and then the 'how to fill in your immigration and customs card' video. Because we were flying from Amsterdam, these were all supposed to be shown in Dutch and English versions. When it came to the immigration video, we got the Dutch version twice, and when it became apparent that there was a problem, all the flight attendants started clustering round the video rack, arguing with each other and trying to get it to play the English one. The features were Madagascar and Monster In Law, both of which looked like they'd been cropped on all four sides. The sound coming out of the at-seat headsets was at least a second out of sync with the picture; probably more.
Admittedly an airliner is not the ideal environment to show a movie in, but I am surprised that the studios allow their product to be shown to the public in conditions that bad. You can get a really bright LCD or DLP data projector for a few grand that would at least have sorted out the hue issues and been bright enough for people to watch without eyestrain. Compared to the overall cost of operating an intercontinental flight, the outlay would be nothing, I'd have thought. And given that it would be less than half the weight of those CRT things, they might even save the airline money.
And, to be fair, it was only movie presentation that Northwest sucked at. The flight arrived on time, the cabin crew was friendly and helpful, the legroom was generous and the meal was easily the best I've had in an economy class long-haul.
Anyhow, I look forward to enjoying some more spectacular theatres during my fortnight in California.
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First off every head and tail was spliced on with no less than 5 layers of tape. Worst of all was the no less than 30 splices in the middle of reel no. 1. If that wasn't bad enough, a few of them were spliced back in out of frame and none of them were spliced on with clear splicing tape.
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