Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: What to do with this print?

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Posted by Christopher Meredith (Member # 3767) on 05-03-2006, 07:56 PM:

Our theater played "Mickey" in the summer of 2004. I was floor staff at the time so I don't know the specifics of the distributor that supplied it (not Technicolor or ETS). Anyway, no one ever came to pick it up and our GM called our film buyer in 2004 who in turn called the studio who informed us they did not want the print back.

So basically, we have a 35mm print of Mickey in our box office that we've had for nearly 2 years and nobody wants. What are the legal issues surrounding this? Are we obligated to destroy the print? What are my options?

Posted by Ross Oba (Member # 3433) on 05-03-2006, 08:11 PM:

Haha, if the studio doesn't want it then that means you can do whatever you want. I wonder what the market is for 35MM full-length feature films on eWay

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 05-03-2006, 10:48 PM:

I would use the print to train your newbies in the booth to build up and tear down. This way you don't have to wait until Thursday nights and have them work on new film.
Also if your technician wants to test run a projector or platter, and asks for some film to run...you've got Mickey.

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 05-03-2006, 11:30 PM:

Before you do anything to that print personaly contact the distributor and/or studio and find out its real status. You don't want to risk your job-and your company being charged replacement cost for a print would likely cost you yours-on hearsay.

Posted by Jason Winn (Member # 3568) on 05-04-2006, 01:02 AM:

The same thing happened where I worked. We played Mickey in 2004. Nobody ever came to pick it up. We contacted the distributor and they told us we could keep it. So, we just left it lying around in booth for several months. Then, in January 2005, we finally did something useful with this print. If you wanna know what we did with it, go to the Ground Level forums, click on "practical jokes," go to page 6, scroll down until you see my post. You might get some ideas.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 05-04-2006, 02:10 AM:

You can always send it to me if you can't find anything else to do with it [Big Grin]

I wondered if this actually played anywhere, I checked out the DVD at my current job. So-so movie, but it gets points for mentioning Davis (CA) where I used to live and work.