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Author Topic: Out of frame "attached" trailers on Deluxe films Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-24-2009 10:54 AM                     quote: Scott Norwood It's not just DFS. TES has the same problem with trailers that are attached by hand. And you will notice upon inspection that the splicers these companies use are the Ciro-type guillotine splicers. Even brand new those splicers are incapable of making a splice I would consider acceptable. They tell me they buy them because they are cheaper. Well, you get what you pay for.  |  IP: Logged Matt Johnston Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Fort Myers, FL Registered: Oct 2009 posted 12-24-2009 04:35 PM                     They spliced your prints!??? The attached trailers for the 3 prints of Alvin that I got were all held with masking tape. I agree though, I NEVER assume any previous splices are correct and I always check the framing of every attached trailer (printed or not).  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-24-2009 05:16 PM                     So the Florida depot uses masking tape, eh?  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 12-24-2009 05:42 PM                     Our 4 had splices, but they did tape the head of reel 1 to the head of the combo trailer. And all were in frame.  |  IP: Logged Matt Johnston Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Fort Myers, FL Registered: Oct 2009 posted 12-24-2009 06:25 PM                     quote: Brad Miller So the Florida depot uses masking tape, eh? Hit and miss. Sometimes spliced, sometimes tape, sometimes nothing.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 12-25-2009 11:48 PM                       Not so much blessed as blessed out. I didn't screen either prints of Alvin 2 but only one of them was out of frame. GM saw it and texted me on my day off about it. A manager I booth trained about a year ago (who just started building this fall) found and corrected it. He was so happy to have corrected a mistake of mine he saved the frame and tacked it to the wall. My last missplice was Death Sentence (Aug 2007) which I was proud to flaunt in front of this new builder (my slight OCD seems to help with builds). Glad to know others had this problem, just wish I was a little more careful and caught it.  |  IP: Logged

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