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Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers) Part 2
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Monte L Fullmer
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Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 03-11-2010 09:03 PM
True, most horrible printing that can be ...
Now, it's my turn to curse the "Booth Clown" ...and this is of the initials "J.T." (Gee, I love it when these locations have their booth clowns put their names on the end leads...):
Got a print of "Up in the Air", #3934 from the Big Wood 4plex in Hailey, Idaho. (It's fairly new little 4plex in the middle of town and nicely dressed out as well..).and I do hope this 4plex converts to digital since they simply must have a "circus" of "booth clowns" at this location that simply shouldn't be handling film.
All the head leads had no "reference" frame along with, on breakdown, these "booth clowns" decide to just grab a reel out of the box to rewind the film on - not even paying attention to match the leads up to the correct reel.
Only thing that has save me from ordering another print from DFS is that the tail leads DO have a reference frame. Thus, I have to forward wind the reels so I can get a clue on which tail leader belongs to which roll of film that was wound on that core.
"DANG!" Just love doing extra work that "clowns" leave behind.
Thx goodness for DCI ! Eliminate this infection of "Booth Clowns"
-Monte
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John Hawkinson
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Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-12-2010 12:33 PM
At least you had tails. This week brings us Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Whomever had DFS print #00462, you suck!. (Hrmm, maybe I should peel back the labels... Is that a water-based glue?).
No tails at all.
Not only that, each reel missing somewhere between one and five seconds at the end of each reel (as judged by the position of the motor cue; no changeover cues left, except for maybe one reel).
Also, R1/R2 deplattered incorrectly. Scissor-cut, and then 100' of R1 sitting on the head of R2.
Oh, and last but not least, these jokers also left a good 5' of R2 [or was it R3?] on the head of the reel, so didn't show it to their own patrons (I suppose that's true of the tails of R1-R5 as well). It's not like it started with a fade. It was perfectly distinct well-framed picture. Ah well.
(and then there's some nonsense about how since Sony handles repertory bookings for Apparition, and has its own pool of DFS prints for that purpose, despite the fact that Apparition had five prints waiting to be junked in Boston, my replacement print had to come from Albany because...computers? politics? just lucky I guess?)
I must say, though, props to DFS for getting me a print on Wed 3/3 for a playdate of Friday 3/12. I wish that happened all the time.
--jhawk
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..and the next print I assembled after this previous fiasco "The Blind Side" ALSO had the head leads lopped off without reference frames and the reference frames were on the tail leaders. But at least, they were put back on in order and the reels were in order in the box...)
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