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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-05-2002, 11:29 AM:
Watch out for the "Enigma" trailer, which has at least two major flaws, as well as generally poor quality lab work.First, the scope trailers have a flat MPAA ratings band and the flat trailers have a scope ratings band. (Actually, it appears that the film was shot in scope and that the scope version of the trailer was produced first--with the wrong ratings band--and then optically unsqueezed at the lab to produce the flat version).
Second, the last few feet of the title card at the end contain an odd buzz or tone during the fade-out. I personally left this intact (one of my pet peeves is theatres that are too lazy to find framelines on trailers and instead just cut in the middle of a fadeout), but it sounds really crappy.
Also, at the end of the trailer there is a printed-in line which appears to be a frameline reference, but is actually out of frame.
Grr.
Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-05-2002, 11:55 AM:
There were a few Paramount trailers around 1999 that had some weird tone at the end; depending on what sort of mood I was in I'd either leave it in or cut it off.
Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 04-05-2002, 12:05 PM:
Does anyone ever try applying a thin strip of opaque tape over the soundtrack for the length of the offending sound?
I guess I'd have reservations of it being too thick or not a good idea to run through the projector, but it might be tempting for cases like this... (using a film opaquer for more than a few frames would get old really fast)--jhawk
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 04-05-2002, 12:54 PM:
Confirming...Enigma is Scope, apparently from anamorphic negative. While I'm at it: SR-D only.
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 04-05-2002, 05:19 PM:
A scope trailer with a flat rating card? A flat trailer with a scope rating card? What phuggin morons!Not only that, Enigma is the first release for a new arthouse distributor called Manhattan Pictures. You would expect them to get it right the first time.
If you get a trailer for Enigma just do what AMC does -- remove the rating card. 
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 04-05-2002, 06:21 PM:
if there's gonna be this much DRAMA i just won't run that trailer------------------
And, hey! Let's be careful out there.
~Manny.