Just after Cole gets up to use the bathroom, he is supposed to follow one of the ghosts down to the kitchen and see see several more ghostst there. Just as he walks into the bathroom, I get lots of dirt, shakey picture, and then a cut to the scene where the psycotrist is trying to get into the basement to read some more notes.

Viewers are compaining that approx 10-15 minutes are missing. I did notice the reel's a little short, and after timing the film, it DID come out 12.5 min short. I ordered for a new print, should be here Tues, but until then, the partrons are FUSSING!!!!

 

The replacement print had 2 or 3 brainwraps in it. And there was one spot I had to cut out a few feet of film because somebody messed up when they broke down and the film was badly crinkled. I was able to cut it out without anybody noticing because it was almost at the end of a scene. Maybe 3 seconds lost where there was no dialogue.

Thing is that all of the heads were gone and some bone head spliced on about 2 feet of old trailer leader and wrote "American Beauty -- Rx". The tails were masking taped.

Although I've seen this kind of thing all the time at Mercyhurst, it pisses me off STILL. We HAD a good print, only to have some bone head F*** it all up. THEN to make matters worse, we get a print that some OTHER bone head F***ed up! I didn't feel like we had much right to complain because "WE" damaged a print but if I knew what condition the replacement was going to be in, I would have recommended we not replace it. It wasn't so bad as to be unplayable. It just would up all funky on the platter and ran through the projector real loud. To me, it was a lot of work for nothing...