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Topic: GRINDHOUSE HeadsUp - Missing Reel, Dirt
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 03-14-2007 06:00 PM
quote: Mike Heenan
stuff like "Truck Stop Women" and "Death Race 2000" and "Blacula"... theaters where maybe the projectionist didn't run a reel in order to get home a little earlier, etc.
Mike hit the nail right square on the head! This is exactly what I was thinking. Movies just weren't shipped missing reels - not as a matter of routine, and certainly not making it to the screen that way! This just goes to show how out-of-touch Tarantino is. He thinks he knows 70s exhibition, but he assumes much.
The scratches in the TV promos I saw for this show aren't convincing. They look like so many fake-scratch shots in TV commercials - where you can tell the guy who adjusted the "add-scratches" plugin didn't know beans about film or how it runs. The ones that really get me are the intentional splices with missing footage -- the sound skips the very instant the picture changes!! How disconcerting! Anyone who's even run 16mm in high school knows that ain't right!
Further... when has ANYONE ever seen something that says, "MISSING REEL"!??!! (I realize it's exposition, but c'mon!) I've seen "Scene Missing" titles in rough cuts, but that's just temporary during production - never would be in release prints! quote: Justin West
Man, I long for the days when a guy could relieve himself, freely, from the comfort of his theatre seat! Ahhh....
JUSTIN!! ROFL!!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today
Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-19-2007 02:33 AM
quote: Quenty-poo
“I guarantee you, when it pops up ‘Missing Reel,’ the entire theater is going to scream."
So let me get this straight... there will be a sign on the screen that says "Missing Reel"? WTF? That's like a sign coming on screen that says "Out of Frame" when something is spliced wrong or the projector is not framed correctly. Or maybe even "Wrong Movie" when you start the wrong show on in a house that has more than one print.
Here's what you all need to do in order for the directors' wishes and dreams to be fully realized:
-Do NOT run Filmguard®™© on this print EVER!!! (Trailers are OK).
-Use an old, dull CIR splicer or even scissors to build it if you can. If you have some white opaque splicing tape to use with it, then that is even better, especially if it leaves behind 4 dots when peeled away. Also make random splices here and there and remove some frames. Manually scratch in as many different reel change cue marks as you can think of all over the frame for the last 20 seconds of each reel.
-Build it up loosely straight onto a platter at slow speed with little to no resistance from the build-up table, making sure the edge of the platter deck rubs against the film the "wrong" way and that the roller feeding on to the deck is at least 2 inches lower than the deck itself. Print must be really loose.
-Build it onto a platter deck that is on the other side of the theater from where it needs to be. Move it by yourself to the proper platter. Be sure to drop the print. No big deal, just drag the print over to the proper platter and reassemble there. Stepping on the film is OK. Keep in mind that it does not matter if you cut and splice it back together out of sequence. After the print is reassembled, add in the trailer pack which did not go through these fun steps.
-When playing the movie, do NOT play it in 5.1 or better digital sound. Play it in optical mono. Be sure the high frequencies are cranked way up so that they can clearly hear all of the dirt on the print.
-Have any old xenons laying around for emergency spares? Do they flicker like crazy in addition to being insanely dim? PERFECT! Put one in your lamphouse for the duration of this movie (do NOT focus the bulb). Turn down the power supply as much as you can.
-It's time for a new aperture plate to be cut just for this movie. Be sure to get Nervous Ted from downstairs to do it for you. Just give him a file and the plate and tell him to make the hole look pretty and that he has 6 minutes to do it or else he will be fired (he can file downstairs in the lobby). Whatever the result, that is the aperture plate to be used with this film. Firing Ted is up to you, but it might add to the fun.
-You might want to "accidentally" bump into the lamphouse a few times during each showing. It may go off-center a bit, but that's OK. DO NOT correct it until the movie leaves this auditorium.
-Use a lens with the wrong throw distance if you can. Twist it a bit as well. And older lens with scratched/nicked/burned glass would be perfect.
-Try to find an old blown low frequency driver to install in your center channel speaker.
-Crossovers. Who needs 'em?
-Do not allow the theater staff to clean the auditorium for the entire time that the movie is there. Try to find a ton of cockroaches that you can let loose into the auditorium if they don't appear on their own.
-Finally, crack open the projection port so that the audience can hear the projector, especially since you will be making your loops WAY too big each time this show runs.
Remember, you must do all of these things to contribute to the look and feel of the movie or else you are not presenting it as the directors had intended and instead you'll be destroying their vision with your competence. Do not let this happen! Contribute to the art of the "grindhouse" style movie (whatever the fuck that is).
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Mike Williams
Master Film Handler
Posts: 255
From: Knoxville, TN
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-20-2007 10:21 PM
quote:
-Do NOT run Filmguard®™© on this print EVER!!! (Trailers are OK).
-Use an old, dull CIR splicer or even scissors to build it if you can. If you have some white opaque splicing tape to use with it, then that is even better, especially if it leaves behind 4 dots when peeled away. Also make random splices here and there and remove some frames. Manually scratch in as many different reel change cue marks as you can think of all over the frame for the last 20 seconds of each reel.
-Build it up loosely straight onto a platter at slow speed with little to no resistance from the build-up table, making sure the edge of the platter deck rubs against the film the "wrong" way and that the roller feeding on to the deck is at least 2 inches lower than the deck itself. Print must be really loose.
-Build it onto a platter deck that is on the other side of the theater from where it needs to be. Move it by yourself to the proper platter. Be sure to drop the print. No big deal, just drag the print over to the proper platter and reassemble there. Stepping on the film is OK. Keep in mind that it does not matter if you cut and splice it back together out of sequence. After the print is reassembled, add in the trailer pack which did not go through these fun steps.
-When playing the movie, do NOT play it in 5.1 or better digital sound. Play it in optical mono. Be sure the high frequencies are cranked way up so that they can clearly hear all of the dirt on the print.
-Have any old xenons laying around for emergency spares? Do they flicker like crazy in addition to being insanely dim? PERFECT! Put one in your lamphouse for the duration of this movie (do NOT focus the bulb). Turn down the power supply as much as you can.
-It's time for a new aperture plate to be cut just for this movie. Be sure to get Nervous Ted from downstairs to do it for you. Just give him a file and the plate and tell him to make the hole look pretty and that he has 6 minutes to do it or else he will be fired (he can file downstairs in the lobby). Whatever the result, that is the aperture plate to be used with this film. Firing Ted is up to you, but it might add to the fun.
-You might want to "accidentally" bump into the lamphouse a few times during each showing. It may go off-center a bit, but that's OK. DO NOT correct it until the movie leaves this auditorium.
-Use a lens with the wrong throw distance if you can. Twist it a bit as well. And older lens with scratched/nicked/burned glass would be perfect.
-Try to find an old blown low frequency driver to install in your center channel speaker.
-Crossovers. Who needs 'em?
-Do not allow the theater staff to clean the auditorium for the entire time that the movie is there. Try to find a ton of cockroaches that you can let loose into the auditorium if they don't appear on their own.
-Finally, crack open the projection port so that the audience can hear the projector, especially since you will be making your loops WAY too big each time this show runs.
Joe, where did you get a copy of the AMC booth operator's manual?
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