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Darren Crimmins
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 130
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 10-30-2002 06:51 PM
#1 The theater is booked to play 2 prints of Frida on Friday. Come Thursday the theater will...
H. Receive no prints and both will arrive on Friday.
#2 Brad Carroll will reply to my email...
E. Never. (We'll call the game over if he has not responded within 3 days of his returning to the office.)
#3 The shipping charges for all of this unnecessary shipping will be...
A. Billed to the theater.
#4 The newly attached trailer (regardless of which prints are received) will be...
A. Attached with a poorly made splice that must be redone
B. Attached with cheap splicing tape that should be outlawed
C. Made with a splicer that has taken a few dozen too many falls off of the table (aka: out of alignment)
D. Spliced out-of-frame.
H. Missing it's black lead-in before the green band
I. Chopping off the analog soundtrack of the Miramax logo
J. Missing it's black lead-out at the end of the trailer
#5 The prints will come with...
G. No reel bands and NOT securely fastened on some of the reels.
#6 The reels will...
B. Some in good condition, some broken or not clipped together properly.
#7 The print cans will...
A. Be missing dts discs.
C. Have an old "letter to the projectionist" from another movie still in the cans.
#8 The condition of the cans will be...
C. Dented to hell, possibly with a latch that won't want to latch and un-latch.
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John T. Hendrickson, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 889
From: Freehold, NJ, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 10-30-2002 09:29 PM
#1 The theater is booked to play 2 prints of Frida on Friday. Come Thursday the theater will...
B. Receive one brand new print and the new print that had to be sent back for a trailer attachment#2 Brad Carroll will reply to my email...
B. With a response that doesn't actually accomplish a change in this kind of ridiculous shipping practice. #3 The shipping charges for all of this unnecessary shipping will be...
B. Covered by Technicolor/Miramax #4 The newly attached trailer (regardless of which prints are received) will be...
A. Attached with a poorly made splice that must be redone
#5 The prints will come with...
B. Reel bands on all reels, but only some are usable without tape
C. Labels placed over the string catch on the reel bands, creating unnecessary aggravation
#6 The reels will...
B. Some in good condition, some broken or not clipped together properly. #7 The print cans will...
B. Have the dts discs enclosed. #8 The condition of the cans will be...
B. Reasonably decent condition, good enough to ship film in.
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John Lasher
Master Film Handler
Posts: 493
From: Newark, DE
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-31-2002 08:31 PM
#1 The theater is booked to play 2 prints of Frida on Friday. Come Thursday the theater will...G. Receive one print and be told the other one will arrive on Friday #2 Brad Carroll will reply to my email... A. With a canned pre-written response that is a waste of internet bandwidth. #3 The shipping charges for all of this unnecessary shipping will be... A. Billed to the theater. #4 The newly attached trailer (regardless of which prints are received) will be... A. Attached with a poorly made splice that must be redone
B. Attached with cheap splicing tape that should be outlawed
C. Made with a splicer that has taken a few dozen too many falls off of the table (aka: out of alignment)
D. Spliced out-of-frame.
E. Spliced backwards, head to tail
F. Spliced flipped, soundtrack to picture
G. Spliced backwards AND flipped (it's happened)
H. Missing it's black lead-in before the green band
I. Chopping off the analog soundtrack of the Miramax logo
J. Missing it's black lead-out at the end of the trailer
K. Scratched or damaged in some manner #5 The prints will come with... E. No reel bands, but properly taped down on some of the reels. #6 The reels will... C. None of them in good condition, either from being broken or not clipped together properly. #7 The print cans will... A. Be missing dts discs. #8 The condition of the cans will be... C. Dented to hell, possibly with a latch that won't want to latch and un-latch.
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-16-2002 02:11 AM
Allright, I gave Brad Carroll from Technicolor a full FIVE DAYS to reply. Clearly he doesn't give a shit. (And I don't want to hear any tender political bs about it either, his lack of response proves this!)
I know everyone has been waiting, so here are the final answers.
#1 The theater is booked to play 2 prints of Frida on Friday. Come Thursday the theater will...
A. Receive two brand new prints
Note should be made the theater was scheduled as of Tue evening to receive two circuited screening prints “no earlier than 1:30PM on Friday” and I had to raise a bit of hell, which may (or may not) have affected the final outcome.
#2 Brad Carroll will reply to my email...
E. Never.
Does this really surprise anyone? It should be noted that I did BCC the original email to a few forum members should anyone even think of accusing me that I never sent the email. What is this guy’s job again? Apparently it is not to help people.
#3 The shipping charges for all of this unnecessary shipping will be...
A. Billed to the theater.
Of course! Duh. 
#4 The newly attached trailer (regardless of which prints are received) will be...
A. Attached with a poorly made splice that must be redone
B. Attached with cheap splicing tape that should be outlawed
C. Made with a splicer that has taken a few dozen too many falls off of the table (aka: out of alignment)
K. Scratched or damaged in some manner
The trailers were playable, but there were marks on the beginning and end. Not quite bad enough to reject playing them, but not pristine either. Someone needs to go to film handling and splicing school.
#5 The prints will come with...
E. No reel bands, but properly taped down on some of the reels.
G. No reel bands and NOT securely fastened on some of the reels.
This speaks for itself. Again, these were brand new prints being sent out without reel bands. (The TES rep I called verified there was no past history on these two prints, so no these did not come from changeover houses.)
#6 The reels will...
B. Some in good condition, some broken or not clipped together properly.
Actually, this batch of reels were “better than normal” for TES prints.
#7 The print cans will...
B. Have the dts discs enclosed.
Since these turned out to be new this doesn’t surprise me. Now if they had been the used circuited prints, the discs may not have been in there.
#8 The condition of the cans will be...
B. Reasonably decent condition, good enough to ship film in.
They weren’t great, but they were good enough. Dirty yes, but not terrible.
And the results are...
Joe Beres +1
Paul G. Thompson -3
Scott Norwood 0
Dwayne Caldwell -8
Daryl C. W. O'Shea +3
Darryl Spicer +1
Sean McKinnon -9
Jacob Huber -1
Richard Miller -1
Daniel Boisson 0
Jennifer Osborne +1
Thomas Procyk -4
Darren Crimmins -1
John T. Hendrickson Jr. -1
John Lasher -6
Congrats to  for pegging TES better than anyone else here. (Oh the shame, Sean!  )
(If anyone would like to double check my calculations, please do. I did this rather quickly.
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