Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Year's worth of trailers?

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Posted by Tyler Potts (Member # 4952) on 10-02-2008, 10:24 AM:

Figured I'd post this here to keep the Handlers forum from getting cluttered.

The 1st head projectionist I worked for loved trailers, something that I've taken up as well. He'd collect good ones even have friends at other theatres who'd find some old ones online and trade them. Around Christmas & New Years he'd splice together about hour or more of trailers. From that year, from a looong time ago, cartoons, always entertaining to watch.

For the past 2 years I've made a print of trailers from just that year and invite a few staff members or friends that are working a lot over the holidays to see it.

Does anyone else do this? Its a fun way to look back at the past 12 months and is definitely good practice for splicing and breaking down.

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 10-02-2008, 12:27 PM:

If I made a reel of trailers and suggested that the staff might want to watch I'd get laughed and probably chased out of the building.

Posted by Alex Rolfe (Member # 1648) on 10-02-2008, 01:11 PM:

We show old scifi trailers at our annual Science Fiction Marathon. Some of them are entertaining for the nostalgia and some are fun because they're so dated (and some are just ridiculous). I don't think they'd be much by themselves, but they add something to the event when you're watching them at 3am.

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 10-02-2008, 01:21 PM:

We've done that. I had a print of trailers back in the early 90s that was easily over 90 minutes long. That might have been a bit too long, but it was still fun to watch. We had several people on our staff watch it after hours and enjoyed it. Bill, it sounds like your staff is boring! [Smile]

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-02-2008, 06:48 PM:

I have four 6000' reels full of trailers from the late '70s to today. Not just trailers, but any old bits of film like No-Smoking tags, Previews tags, some ads we received by mistake, etc. It's fun to watch a reel once in a while. I tend to hang on to trailers I like a lot. There were quite a few in the mid 70s that I wish I still had, but that was back in the National Screen Service days when they actually demanded that trailers be returned.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-02-2008, 07:09 PM:

They still do that here...I honestly have no idea why. It must drive the dispatch guys balmy getting all these trailers back just so 'they' can throw them in the bin.