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Author Topic: Girl with Dragon Tattoo film stock Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-25-2010 10:24 PM                        My print of Girl Who Played With Fire is on Kodak stock.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-26-2010 07:28 AM                     An old cure for "green prints" was to have a small stick of Paraffin canning wax and to touch the edges of the film with it as they enter the gate. This tends to eliminate the sticky nature of the film. Canning wax is available in the canning section of your market and is sold in bars from which you can cut small pieces. One bar is about 1,000 year's supply. KEN  |  IP: Logged Hsin-ning Chang Film Handler Posts: 12 From: Athens, OH, United States Registered: Sep 2008 posted 10-11-2010 12:46 PM                     This is the second week we have THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and it causes many many troubles to us with the same problems-- the whole film is so damn sticky. When it came here, we already found that there are many tapes especially towards the end of the movie. Also, it was dusty in many places (usually we'll get film that looks dusty when it's almost reel change, yet this one just dusty in random places). My guessing is, the theater who played this print earlier might go through lots troubles too. The print has already caused many brian wraps to us. We have tried several ways to prevent it, such as wearing a white glove and just use finger to separate the layers of film that stick together. Yet, we have only one projectionist at a time to run three auditoriums, so sometime we got to leave this print for minutes. About two of ten times we left, it wrapped... T.T We also ran it through the film cleaner with filmguard many times. The pads of the cleaner look green and purple afterward (But like what Joe and Connor said, the image looks totally fine on the screen). And, although cleaning it seems to help, but the stickiness come back frequently. We are four young projectionists work with pretty old equipments in an University theaters. Two of us have two-year projecting experience and the other two have one-year and then three-months. (I know the whole situation sounds just bad, but we are working very hard to do things right). This print and the brain wrap just gave us nightmares... other than filmguard it, do you think is there anything I can do to make the situation better??  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-11-2010 01:46 PM                     One of the old tricks in some of the kodak books of the ast was to get camphor wax  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 10-11-2010 01:50 PM                     Is this one of those times when a very liberal application of Film Guard to the edges of the print (wiping it on the film pack with a saturated cloth) would be beneficial? Brad, what do you think of that idear?  |  IP: Logged Hsin-ning Chang Film Handler Posts: 12 From: Athens, OH, United States Registered: Sep 2008 posted 10-11-2010 02:54 PM                     wow!! Camphor wax! I'll test it on an old trailer. If I could find a kind that works fine and does not harm the film, I will try to apply that on the print with the film cleaner (excited). Thank you Gordon! Thank you Tony! we have been doing that before we run the print almost everyday. We did that on another print that has a bit static too, it worked pretty well with the other print. With this one, I think it helps but there are still really sticky parts that do not separate.  |  IP: Logged

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