Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: What a Girl Wants reel 6?

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Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 04-01-2003, 10:20 PM:

Our R6 of What a Girl Wants was incredibly grainy with very bad color saturation...just curious if anyone else had similar issues.

Kind of annoying that Techicolor's lab doesn't put copy numbers on reels...

--jhawk

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 04-01-2003, 11:01 PM:

We didn't have that and I didn't actually view the reel myself, but our screener (who also built up the print) reported a thin yellow scratch close to the left side of the screen from the very start of the reel to the end.

We inspected the reel on the bench and could not see any physical signs of a scratch or a thin yellow line.
Possibly it came from the transfer?
Although, those are usually different colors I believe.
I'm still not completely sure how the tansfers of master/inter/supermagadope positives/negatives work, so I'm not sure.

Posted by Bob Brown (Member # 1205) on 04-01-2003, 11:13 PM:

Yup So was ours, it was totally RED, looked kinda cool. New reel is on the way!

-Bob

Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 04-01-2003, 11:19 PM:

Huh. Weird. Since we had it for one show only, well, it's hard to lose too much sleep over it. We didn't have any colored lines, though there was a thin black vertical line 1/5 of the way from the right edge of the image for the first few seconds of R6. *shrug*

"Perhaps it was a rush job." As John will tell us, the first and last reels are always the last to get printed...

--jhawk

Posted by Michael Atkinson (Member # 1440) on 04-01-2003, 11:39 PM:

We had the same problem; the scratch was faint and not noticeable during some scenes.

I was actually glad it was there because trying to figure out what caused it kept me awake for the last reel.

Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 04-01-2003, 11:50 PM:

Our reel 6 had the same scratch going on as the rest of you guys.

Posted by Jeff Skallan (Member # 891) on 04-02-2003, 04:05 AM:

Same here. Reel 6 had a thin white/clear vertical line that faded in and out throughout the entire reel. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-02-2003, 08:06 AM:

Sounds like there was a problem with at least one of the printing negatives for reel 6.

Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 12-17-2003, 12:12 AM:

Wayback in April, I said, "Kind of annoying that Techicolor's lab doesn't put copy numbers on reels..."

For the record, this changed sometime back (before my post even, though I didn't see any such prints), and copy numbers on release prints printed at Technicolor seem to carry copy numbers now (I don't know if it is specific to particular locations). Example:

--jhawk