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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 05-28-2005 09:07 AM

Exactly. I never allow anything to run before I check it. Thats why I am a film inspector.

I found a needle in a piece of 16mm film once. Actually, my right index finger found it. 1977. I'll never forget it.

ETS and the others should be getting the trailers in frame if nothing else. But, I am sure that the distributors hire people that had never seen a piece of film before they came to work there, too.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-28-2005 11:52 AM

It's the principle of the thing, Bill. Any "professional" film operation, be it a lab, a shipping depot or a movie theatre, sending out film with a bad splice in it is just inexcusable.

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Bruce Hansen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 847
From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 05-28-2005 12:16 PM

It's not whining to want a job done correctly. Maybe the film got delivered late, and you just have to throw it on the platter, and then on the screen. I'd rather they just droped the trailer in with the film, than attach it wrong.

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Brad Allen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 688
From: Evansville, IN, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 05-28-2005 12:44 PM

ETS Indianapolis. No problems. Film on time, trailers attached as they should be always.

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Carl Martin
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1424
From: Oakland, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 05-28-2005 02:43 PM

sure, we all check every splice, but i know many don't.

who attaches studio/distributor logos at the heads of prints when they're not printed on? does the depot do this? our print of mysterious skin had 2 of these spliced on, and of the 5 cuts made, 4 were not on frame lines, which is slightly worse than chance. i'm sure the one cut that was correct (where the leader was originally cut off the head of r1) was a fluke. also, one of the splices was one-sided and there were gaps between the film ends under the splices.

all of this got corrected on build-up, but i lost maybe 1/2 hour on a tight schedule.

carl

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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 05-28-2005 04:59 PM

I guess the moral of the story is, if you want it done right....

Yeah, I've said it before, I'll say it again.

JJ

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Tom Doyle
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 176
From: Bristol, CT, USA
Registered: Nov 2002

posted 06-03-2005 03:41 AM

I handled three prints last week from the Salem, Mass. ETS depot. All three were spliced out of frame (although they did use splicing tape). I didn't think it was that hard to find the framelines on Paramount trailers.

I don't understand why they closed the Connecticut ETS depot. We never had problems like this.

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