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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 08-16-2001, 06:29 PM:
Two Film-Techers mentioned something like this in an unrelated post from long ago.I happened upon a movie with scenes repeating at the Regal in New Roc City (New Rochelle NY). It was Brother, the yakuza/gangsta movie starring Beat Takeshi and Omar Epps. About a minute or so of the movie got repeated halfway through. The part that got repeated was the touch football game on the beach, followed by the scene in the bar when a yakuza is being told to cut his finger off.
I should add that the top half of the picture was covered in black before that sequence repeated. Also, the last 5 minutes of the following reel were blurred and out of focus.
Normally I would have told the theater manager about the repeating scenes. This time I figured, No sense bothering them -- Brother is probably a one-week programmer and the booth staff didn't notice this when it built the print. My hunches were proven correct.
FWIW, a number of Regal megaplexes booked Brother because of the chain's ban on Rush Hour 2 (New Line).
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-17-2001, 08:47 AM:
I suspect there may have been a problem printing one of the reels, and an attempt was made to splice together the good sections of two defective reels to make one good reel. It sounds like they inadvertently spliced in a few scenes twice, and then spliced it two perfs out of frame. Whoever was doing the work was having a bad day. 
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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 08-17-2001, 09:27 AM:
I have seen this happen before yet it is very rare. The case I remember was with the movie The River Wild. there was a repeat scene that was probably cause by some sort of problem during processing. The scene went clear for a few feet then repeated itself. After doing some editing the repeat scene was removed. You could not tell that there was a problem once this was done.
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 08-02-2002, 07:42 AM:
Bumping this thread up top for Joe Redifer, Mike Blakesley & Co.
Posted by John Daily (Member # 1362) on 08-02-2002, 03:38 PM:
The only time I've had this happen was with "The Wedding Planner". I'm not positive, but I think it was near the last reel change and about a minute of film was repeated, with the second occurance being off color. I figured someone had tried to replace a bad section and forgot to remove part of what they were replacing.