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Author Topic: Film Guard to Fix Base Scratches Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 08-06-2007 02:32 AM                        Kelmar transporters are cheaper than refunds. People expect at least as good as home cinema these days.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-06-2007 08:58 AM                        While you have every right to make a post like the one mentioned above, one should always remember, this is a public forum. You never know if your boss might be reading it... Just a word for the wise...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-06-2007 09:18 AM                        quote: Monte L Fullmer Plus, if they don't keep prints as long as the large mainstream circuits, it could be their logic to not see the necessity of film cleaning... Even that doesn't make sense. We play many movies on the break and we only keep them usually for two or sometimes three weeks, and we only play most prints nine or ten times a week. It's amazing the amount of stuff that will come off the print in that time with that few runs.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 08-06-2007 10:59 AM                        Probably resistance to change... and maybe keeping the booth as uncomplicated for the popcorn jockies as possible. You know that if some of these companies put FG in their booths, somebody would be soaking the pads every time, the film would start jumping all over the screen, customers would go berserk and business would implode while waiting for the tech to figure out what was wrong with the intermittent! Come to think of it... I wonder how well FG would have replaced running water on my kids' "Slip 'N Slide"??? That might have been fun, if not a bit smelly!  |  IP: Logged Wyatt Copeland Film Handler Posts: 74 From: Gettysburg, PA, USA Registered: Aug 2007 posted 08-06-2007 11:35 AM                     quote: Jack Ondracek somebody would be soaking the pads every time, the film would start jumping all over the screen That is a valid concern there... I'd be the only one using it though if my plan goes through. There's only one other projectionist and I'm not about to ask him to learn something new (heaven forbid). Haha good idea with the slip`n` slide. Be one expensive kiddy ride lubricant though!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-06-2007 02:59 PM                     By the way for the archives, IF someone actually did that, the solution is to load up dry media pads and run the film through it once or twice until the jumping stopped (to wipe the excess off, even though it would still probably be way too much for an ideal cleaning job).  |  IP: Logged

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