Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Does your National Security print have the credits spliced on?

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-17-2003, 12:03 PM:

Topic title says it all. Our print came in and as I slowed down to remove what I thought would be one of those ugle lab cement splices, I came across an ugly 8 sprocket tape splice between (I guess) the last frame of the movie, and the black at the start of the credits. The sound track looked like it lined up ok, so I just retaped it cleanly and let it go.

Anyone else have that on their print? I've seen lab tape splices before of course, just not in an obviously exact spot like that. Makes me thing something was changed in the credits or something.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 01-17-2003, 02:48 PM:

Last minute changes can sometimes result in the release prints being edited, with splices made in the lab ("positive assembly") or film exchange.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-17-2003, 02:50 PM:

Not on the one I saw.

Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 01-17-2003, 04:21 PM:

Not on my print.

Posted by Carl Palko (Member # 1517) on 01-19-2003, 01:19 PM:

not mine

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 01-19-2003, 03:19 PM:

Please pardon my ignorance but what is a National Security Print ?

-Claude

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 01-19-2003, 03:28 PM:

That'd be a print of the movie National Security, a Sony Pictures release.

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 01-19-2003, 04:15 PM:

Not on the print in the Reading Cinemas (Manville NJ).

Posted by John Carpenter (Member # 1488) on 01-19-2003, 06:46 PM:

not on any of ours either

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 01-19-2003, 09:53 PM:

Both of ours did.
I'm pretty sure Miramax is to blame. [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-20-2003, 09:39 AM:

Wow. I was starting to feel discouraged for a while there! Is it possible that there was a change made somewhere in the negative/inter positive stage and some of the prints needed to be updated and others didn't?

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 01-20-2003, 11:10 AM:

Maybe some of the reels were from bid prints. Because I have gotten
bid prints with no end credits or rating tags. I have had studios
send me new logos and rating tags tobe placed on screening prints.

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 03-24-2003, 03:02 PM:

I just watched a print that had the SRD cut to SR for the middle of the film. [Frown]

Pretty much the whole of R3 I think.