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Author Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers) Part 2 Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-25-2009 02:47 PM                     You might want to clarify your post above, as it looks like you are the NuArt projectionist from hell, as opposed to being the victim of the guy who played the print AFTER the NuArt guys schmucked it up.  |  IP: Logged Tony L. Hernandez Expert Film Handler Posts: 158 From: Windsor, CO, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 04-25-2009 03:03 PM                     Thanks for the heads up Brad but I'm not seeing this. What needs to be corrected?  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-25-2009 07:25 PM                     If I could get extra pay for the time I've spent fixing prints like that over the past 22 years I could go on that trip to Australia I've been wanting to take.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-25-2009 08:42 PM                     Well, Bill, I hear that if you got the routing right, round trips on United to Australia were only $100 last week. Tony, what Brad means is that you start your post with "Theare: NuArt Theater" and it kind of reads like that is the theatre you work, not the theatre which sucks. Careful reading of your penultimate paragraph clarifies, but it's not at all apparent while reading your post. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Robert Madara Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Millville, NJ. USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 08-01-2009 01:52 AM                        Today I received a print of "I Love You, Beth Cooper", cycled from "The Great Escape 12" 965 Lycoming Mall Circle, Willamsport, PA. The leaders & tail pieces were attached with some cheap masking tape that left a sticky residue on the film. I tried to clean it off the best I could but I still had a brain wrap. Luckily, I was standing almost next to my poor Autowind II. I was down for about 5-10 minutes. I cut out the burnt frame, etc. ..I ordered a bottle of Film Gaurd a couple of weeks ago from my tech, but it hasn't come in yet. I sure could have used some today! Thanks, I feel better now that I've vented. Someday I'll get rid of the platter, & add a second machine.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-01-2009 08:02 AM                     quote: Robert Madara Someday I'll get rid of the platter, & add a second machine. Hi! I'm Steve and I'm here to help you!  |  IP: Logged Robert Madara Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Millville, NJ. USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 08-01-2009 11:58 AM                        Thank You Steve! I'm not that far from Maryland. My drive-in is located in Linden, PA. 17744. I bought a pair of used platter systems from my tech a couple of weeks ago (ORC ..I think they're the Maxi's. Brown, not orange). He delivered them to me after he picked them up at a theatre in Corning, NY, about 90 minutes north of me. He was supposed to come back & install them the next day, but he said that he had an emergency in Ohio. ..Haven't heard from him since. The new equipment is stored along to side wall of my Car-feteria & surounded by stancions & velvet rope. ..Makes a nice display! I really just need the larger platter in booth 2 to replace the Xetron XNR 335 "mini platter" It only holds about 3 hrs. of film on each platter. I have to stop & thread up the next feature. I hate a dark screen betwwen shows as much as a dj who has dead air between songs! In booth 1, I'd like to remove the platter ( beat up,rusty, bent, Christe Autowind II) & replace it with a second mach. & do changeovers. There would be room to put the small Xetron platter in there also & I could use the second mach. to run the clock & trs. I close for the season Labor day. Thanks, again!  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-01-2009 12:32 PM                     Robert, for cleaning off seriously sticky residue, you really want a solvent (Filmguard is primarily a lubricant). You probably have isopropanol (isopropyl alcohol) kicking around the booth, use that (or pick some up at the corner drugstore). Still better is VM&P Naptha, but you may have to go as far as the neighborhood hardware store. (That's "varnishmakers' and painters'"). --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Robert Madara Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Millville, NJ. USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 08-01-2009 05:38 PM                        Thanks, John. I picked up a can of the VM & P Nahptha today. It works great! Bob.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-01-2009 09:08 PM                     Car-feteria.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-02-2009 01:45 PM                       Yeah, I noticed that and thought it was cute, too, but it's just a little too easy for people to say, "BARF-e-teria" instead. I can just hear them now...  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-02-2009 07:41 PM                     "Scarf-e-teria!"  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 08-14-2009 04:45 PM                        It's getting to be the time of year when we play a fair number of second run prints. It never fails to amaze me how many of these prints come in with just the smallest scrap of tape to secure the leaders. I built up Hurt Locker this morning and most of the reels were "secured" with a piece of tape less than 1" long.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-14-2009 10:32 PM                     That less-than-one-inch was because of the rule of using tape in the booth...use your penis length as a guide when determining how much tape to use.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-14-2009 10:46 PM                     With me working in a six screen discount house, I see all - from miles of masking tape to no tape what so ever - resulting in " film spaghetti in a box/can.." But my more gripe is (and I covered this before..) is whacked off tail leads on the last reel and this lead is stuck back on with masking tape. (Why .. why .. the need of whacking off the tail lead on the last reel......?) -Monte  |  IP: Logged

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