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Edward Jurich
Master Film Handler

Posts: 305
From: Las Vegas USA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted 12-10-2003 11:21 AM

I can see how one might get a reel backwards, in a rush or not. I always hold the frames up to light to make sure I didn't miss a frame line and the reel is forward. But if you get distracted for some reason, sh.. can happen. I was running a cartoon show doing changeovers many years ago. I threaded up a cartoon while talking to somebody not even noticing that there were no leader numbers. Did the changeover to an upsidedown cartoon. It's amazing how fast you can thread up another cartoon with 1000 screaming kids stomping their feet.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-10-2003 12:05 PM

I disagree there is excuse for that kind of screw up

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-06-2004 05:18 AM

The 2/9/2003 Newsweek has an interview with 5 hotshot directors inclucding Peter Jackson & Clint Eastwood; it's on sale now & also online at

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4113619/

quote:

There was an early critics' screening of "Return of the King" in Washington, D.C., and right before the first big battle sequence the movie started playing upside down. Did you hear about that? And did it cause your blood pressure to fluctuate?
Jackson: [Laughs] Well, yeah. I just thought the projectionist was a complete moron. There's no other explanation, because it happened twice in the screening, as I understand. The first time it happened, they rethreaded it all, which takes about 20 minutes. They started it up again, it played—and then a couple of reels later it was upside down again.
Eastwood: That's a real nightmare.
Jackson: Oh, yeah.

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 02-06-2004 06:49 AM

Yes, yes, but there probably was no real projectionist.

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 02-06-2004 06:59 AM

Bet it was an EK print too! Well, that's what the big shots get for keeping the showprints for their own little exclusive, private screenings. AND for being too cheap to hire a real projectionist who knows what he's doing.

I'm not feeling any too sorry for any of them.

Next thing you know, they will be saying how that kind of thing wouldn't happen if it were DIGITAL.....they all should be forced to watch VHS for the rest of their lives.

Yah, I'm in a foul mood....sue me.

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Steve Kraus
Film God

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 02-06-2004 03:39 PM

Not sure what consitutes an EK print on a Super 35 / digital intermediate show.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 02-10-2004 08:21 PM

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Not sure what consitutes an EK print on a Super 35 / digital intermediate show.

If the print was directly from a laser-recorded duplicate negative of the "digital intermediate", I think it would qualify as an "EK" or "show" print. More and more digital intermediate features are being done this way:

http://www.cinesite.com

http://www.cinesite.com/?122

http://www.cinesite.com/?1231&0&1269

http://www.cinesite.com/?1231&0&2421

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