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Author Topic: No Tape - Take Down Question Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-21-2009 08:46 PM                     I don't have time for courtesy tabs. I'm too busy adjusting the volume knobs.  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 06-22-2009 12:38 AM                     I really like it when you spend countless hours unraveling heads and tails that are no longer attached to the reels... only to find that the masking tape they attached let go... but it did have a courtesy tab, so it's all okay Usually when a print has been shown at a few other locations before getting to me I'm happy as long as I can identify the reels, put them in correct order and hopefully not have one of those giant green platter peg scratches down the middle. The only thing that burns me up is when several "ID" frames have been removed (it's been to a few cinemas) and you find things like the distributer logo is still out of frame...  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-22-2009 02:25 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer Carl, I'm sure you also leave an ID frame on the head AND tail so that would be super redundant to also write it down. nope. i'd prefer to leave none at all, but i'm forced to leave one at the head. even if i did leave one at the tail, it's a lot quicker to glance in the can for a number rather than pull out a bunch of reels to examine id frames. of course, this all makes no difference at the end of the day as it's all undone when the print ships out.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 06-23-2009 07:08 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley I remember when all trailers came with reel bands. (Mainstream ones that is.) National Screen Service used to raise holy hell if you dared to send one back without its band. " EXHIBIT 'A' " (Recently Unearthed At An Old Theater) NSS not only raised hell if you returned the trailers without the bands, they billed the theater for the trailer prints if you didn't return them promptly.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-23-2009 07:59 PM                        Ewwww.... shoe polish and no cores?  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 06-23-2009 08:18 PM                     That's not shoe polish, Joe. Thats just top end of the paper reel bands which have gotten a little frayed and look white in the photo. What looks like shoe polish on inside of the top left trailer roll is just a reflection from the camera flash. I can't explain the absence of cores. As I recall it wasn't all that unusual to get trailers from NSS without cores. (mabye they were skimping on on cores so they could afford to buy reel-bands! ) Unlike today, unless you were a first run theater you very rarely got new trailer prints. They usually were used. Also, the trailers did not arrive with the feature film. They were shipped, individually via mail or UPS, with each trailer in its'own little box. ( ! ) Afterwards you had to put the proper reel band on each trailer and then find the right little box to ship it back in. It was all part of the job.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-23-2009 08:30 PM                     The trailer on the left has shoe polish on the inside of the roll.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 06-23-2009 08:47 PM                     quote: Brad Miller The trailer on the left has shoe polish on the inside of the roll At the risk of getting into a pissing match over this: "EXHIBIT 'B' " Same Trailer- slightly different angle and with the end pulled out. What looked like shoe polish in the first photo was a reflection from the camera flash. In the circuit I was working in, eveybody ran reel to reel. There were no platters, and NO SHOE POLISH! Heck- - I didn't even have any to polish my shoes with! I was in the booth all day & nite- - so who was going to see my shoes? And no tape! We spliced film with good old fashioned ozone depleting, brain cell killing noxious toxic chemical compounds!  |  IP: Logged

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