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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-04-2003, 01:10 AM:

While screening our print of 'What a girl wants' VERY noticable sound problems were happening on the analog track of reel 4. The soundtrack actually appeared on the prints picture for a couple of seconds. A new reel will be ordered in the morning.

Did anyone else have this problem?

-Seems as if there was alot of printing probs on this film, our reel 6 was also very grainy (but no vertical line was noticed).

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 04-04-2003, 01:44 AM:

our print was fine. But I have seen what you described happen before.

Posted by Don Bruechert (Member # 1538) on 04-04-2003, 01:59 AM:

I didn't notice anything, and I just got home from watching it. I have it in the SDDS house though.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-04-2003, 02:19 AM:

You WOULD notice what our print did. The soundtrack actually came on to the screen. And throughout the reel it sounded like someone was cleaning the reader.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 04-04-2003, 07:38 AM:

As Mr. Spock would say: Fascinating. Obviously something derailed in the printer briefly but what makes it interesting is that the place where the sound negative is being printed is only illuminated in appropriate track areas and where the picture area is illuminated only the picture negative is present, not the sound. Unless I'm not understanding something about release printing. John?

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 04-04-2003, 08:42 AM:

I saw this phenomenon before on a print of "Final Destination" (the first one). One reel had an intermittent brown glob (safelight fog?) coming in and out which also affected the sound. *flash*-THUMP-*flash*-THUMP... then about halfway into the reel, the sound stopped for a brief moment, and you could see the soundtrack on screen.

What was really a kick in the head was that our print arrived late on a Friday, forcing us to cancel the first two matinees. [Mad]

=TMP=

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-04-2003, 09:04 AM:

Possibly the print raw stock jumped off the sprocket in the printer soundhead, so the image area was exposed by the sound printing aperture. So the soundtrack would be printed over the picture area.

Another possibility is that the picture and soundtrack were printed normally, but there was a problem with silver soundtrack application during processing, so the picture area got a bead of sountrack developer leaving a band of silver down the image.

Unlikely to have affected many prints without getting caught during lab inspection of the prints.

Any chance of seeing a photo?

Posted by Bill Langfield (Member # 818) on 04-04-2003, 09:05 AM:

Rachel,

Keep that faulty reel, it WILL come in handy at Christmas / Party if you want to run stuff you don't care about making any worse.

A reel of Tomb Raider that was totally screwed is my favourite.

Bill!