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Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers) Part 2
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Carl Martin
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1424
From: Oakland, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-13-2007 06:37 AM
dear "naro expanded cinema" in norfolk, va.,
i'm sure you didn't cause all the problems with print #7 of "pete seeger: the power of song", but you didn't help.
the outside of reel 2's leader was unsecured and wrapped around reel 1. leaders in general were filthy.
accordian splices galore. tail of reel 1, in particular, was cut in several places, all of them within the fade-out. one of the cuts was more than a foot and a half from the true end of the reel! and this is a film with dialogue over most of the reel changes. i patched things together as well as i could but it's still glitchy, even in srd.
most of the reel ends had a good helping of shoe polish (or something similar), well into the srd area, sometimes into the analog track and the picture area as well. alcohol took most of it off.
mild platter scratches. heavier lines in reel 2.
thanks for leaving a foil cue near the end of reel 3, and a bunch in the credits. i caught most of them before the automation did.
oh and, magic tape isn't the best way to attach leaders.
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Galen Murphy-Fahlgren
Master Film Handler
Posts: 405
From: Canton, MI, USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 03-22-2008 02:36 AM
Is there a particular methodology for determining what other theaters have played a particular print? I today received a print of "Bratz" to go on screen tomorrow for our free kids show series, and when I opened the cans, I was floored. I have dealt with second run stuff before, mostly as part of our the twice-annual kids show series, but this takes the cake.
Reel 1 contained not only the actual reel 1, but half of reel 2 and, if that wasn't enough, they decided to leave a trailer attached such that it literally fell off the reel all over my make up table as soon as I picked the thing up. Apparently, the genius who broke it down got confused by one of the numerous zebra tape splices from fixing what looks like multiple brain wraps. Now, you would think that since there were ID frames on the heads and tails, they would have realized their somewhat obvious mistake. I replaced several more zebra splices with clear tape, but I think I missed some. I would bet my right hand that there are loads of scratches too, but because of the brilliant way my company handles print replacement, I'm sure we couldn't get a replacement in time.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-24-2008 07:27 PM
There Will Be Blood at the Odeon, Wimbledon (London), screen 7, Saturday 22 March 2007 at 8.30pm.
What was good:
- Nice, bright and even screen illumination. The lamp was of proper power for the screen size, there were no hot spots, the colour temperature was nice and high and there was no hint of a flicker.
- Even focus across the width of the 'scope picture. The depth of field on the anamorph had obviously been set correctly.
- Very clear channel separation on the audio.
What was bad:
- Several thin vertical scratches which ran throughout the length of the feature towards the right of the screen - looked like misthreading through a platter path roller (i.e. wasn't seated in the flanges properly, and so a bit of picture area rubbed along the raised flange of the roller). That having been said, these scratches weren't there on the preshow reel, meaning that the accident that caused them could have been at a previous cinema, before the Odeon got that print (this is a film which has been on release for several weeks now, meaning that another venue may well have had that print before the one I saw it at). If it had been me, I'd have sent that print back as unacceptable on account of the scratches (or at least, tried to).
- Very dirty for 20-50ft ish around the reel ends (again, could have been poor film handling at a previous venue).
- Sound level was way too loud during the ads and trailers, and slightly too loud during the feature. I didn't notice a projectionist come in and do a sound check at any point during the feature, and suspect that (s)he didn't take account of the fact that the house was virtually empty (only about 10 customers in total) when setting the volume level.
- The ad and trailer reel was WAY too long at 32 minutes. In particular that crappy Chris Moyles ad, which everyone and their cat has complained about, was still there!
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