Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Cody Banks Misprint

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-20-2003, 01:00 PM:

According to two projectionists and a manager at one of my theatres, one of our "Agent Cody Banks" (Reel-1) is printed in such a way that it is impossible to cut on a frame-line.

At first we thought it was a bad splice but, apparently, it's the way it got printed -- all splices to that reel will be bad. I'm going over there to take a look for myself right now before I go and order a replacement reel.

Anybody else got a bad Reel-1 of this movie?

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 03-21-2003, 02:11 AM:

No problems with ours but I have seen this happen before. Once I had it happen thru half a reel and once for just a few feet. Both incidents occured after a lab splice.

Posted by Patrick McDonough (Member # 1363) on 03-21-2003, 08:49 AM:

our copy was fine, but we have had problems like that.

Posted by Tony Ratcliff (Member # 1196) on 03-21-2003, 12:00 PM:

I've seen that a few times over the years.
Royal pain in the rear when it happens.

Tony

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-21-2003, 03:58 PM:

Thanks. I'd never seen that before.

(Replacement reel already on the way.)

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 03-22-2003, 04:59 PM:

A possible explanation is that the film jumped a sprocket during printing, likely after a lab splice. Was the image also slightly out of focus for a brief time?

If so, it would be a one-time incident that affected only one reel of one print.