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Posted by Sean Goodrich (Member # 475) on 02-11-2001, 01:53 PM:
After reading about Rachel Carter's mishap with a dangerous reel, I've decided to start this thread.At my theatre, we toss out faulty reels, and send the film back on cores.
I'm calling on all Film-Tech members to spread this practice. If word gets out, I'm sure that TES would have to replace all their disappearing reels. Within a year, we'd be using brand-spanking new reels.
what do you guys think?
Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 02-11-2001, 02:34 PM:
IN the US why they don't adopt the European practice and ship prints on 35mm cores as we have in the UK. except Indian prints that normally shipped without cores!.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-11-2001, 03:39 PM:
Already doing it. 
Anyone else care enough about the safety of their fellow projectionists to join in?
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 02-11-2001, 05:52 PM:
If you do ship a print back on cores, be sure to protect the roll from dirt by tightly enclosing it in a clean polyethylene bag (e.g., a clear polyethylene small wastebasket liner). Also, to prevent dishing of the rolls in the regular octagonal shipping cases, be sure to put dividers (e.g., 15-inch diameter disks cut out of corregated cardboard) between the bagged rolls. Also put a note in the case stating why the damaged reels were not returned.------------------
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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-11-2001, 06:18 PM:
I have been doing that for some time. I just put the reels in bags like you said, John.Although I don't build movies as a regular part of my job anymore I will suggest that people who work "with" me do the same.
If these hazardous things get taken out of circulation then they'll have to be replace with good one. (Improvement by attrition! 
)
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-11-2001, 06:21 PM:
Reels or not, ALL of my prints go back individually wrapped in a plastic liner. Those cans are just WAY too dirty to ship a film that I work hard to keep in immaculate condition.Now if only we could get TES to take all of those cans that have the flaky cardboard insert out of circulation.
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 02-11-2001, 09:04 PM:
Brad, you forgot to mention that TES should take those orange film cans of theirs (which must be made out of Budweiser beer cans) and replace them when they get so badly beat up to the point where they look like they have been through a trash masher.