quote: Monte L Fullmer

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That's why it's a good idea to shove as much of old trailers you have on the bench in the cans and send them back to the depots so that they can be recycled instead of heaving them in the trash can.

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When you do this, does it matter which film company the trailers are for. Or do you generally try to throw the trailers for each specific movie in the can with the same movie?

I generally trash around 20+ pounds of trailers on any given week. It would be nice to not have to throw them all into the trash since the only company that sends me return labels anymore is Paramount.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 12-18-2005, 06:14 PM:
 
What happens if you send back other distributors' trailers in a box with a Paramount label? Do they complain?

My preferred method for recycling trailers from first-run houses is to give them to smaller theatres that might play the advertised films someday. If I thought that returning them to the distributors would accomplish more than sending them to the shredder, I'd do that. I've worked in enough smaller theatres to know that those places have a hard time getting posters, much less other promotional material and I try to help them when I can. Of course, I keep my favorite titles and others which might be likely to reappear for repertory engagements at some point.

As for TES, they probably do whatever the films' owners want them to do--shred, rejuvenate for second-run and/or foreign distribution, or save for later engagements. Personally, I'd love to see them start charging theatres that damage film, but that doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 12-18-2005, 06:41 PM:
 
If trailers from any company comes in the cans for usage on the features, they can easily go back to the depots where they were put in the cans at the beginning.

I have done that also and now do the reverse: give discount houses new trailers and where I work in a discount house, I get my trailers from the first-run houses.

-Monte
 

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Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 12-19-2005, 12:50 PM:
 
Several points:

Technicolor does not open cans when they come back, only when they are going to go out for the next engagement. So sending back trailers in cans is not an effective way to have the trailers re-used. (It may be an effective way to have them recycled and eventually turned into car parts or plastic reels or cheap inkjet printers, etc.)

Scott is correct that what happens to prints is entirely a function of the studio, and what they want to pay for, probably on a per-title basis. In some cases, prints may be "rejuvinated" (a process which will remove dirt and some base-side scratches, but will not repair emulsion scratches). Or destroyed. Or have the best reels from several mediocre prints combined to make a few good prints.

--jhawk
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-19-2005, 03:58 PM:
 
Although used prints can be "rejuvenated" by cleaning, "rewashing' or coating scratched support with UV-cured polymers, the cost needs to be weighed against the relatively low cost of making a new print. Indeed, for second run, the good reels selected from a few thousand used prints are usually enough to meet the needs.

Kodak offers print recycling services:

Kodak Print Recycling

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Eric Rodli, president of Entertainment Imaging states, “This certification speaks to our
environmental policies …. It also sends a broader signal about the quality and capability
of our workforce. This is really important because FPC is a core part of our motion
picture business unit… a major component of Kodak’s ‘cradle-to-grave’ service and
support….” Last year alone, FPC recycled enough motion picture print film to reach
from planet earth to the moon approximately 2 ½ times.

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