Since I also work at two other small places, I may need to know who to call, etc. to get films. I know there are catalogs. (New Yorker, Kino, Kit Parker, etc.) What I'm really interested in is starting a summer film fest either at the college I work for or at the local Warner Theatre.

I was wondering if I could get a print from somebody who collects them and call the dist. and ask for permission (and pay $$) to play the movie.

Anybody know anything??

You can however book a film and let them send their beat up crappy print and just quietly let their print sit in the cans while you play a friend's collector print in it's place. I've heard of titles where the studio only had 16mm prints and the theater booked that and played a good condition 35mm collector's print.

As far as booking a repertory film yourself, try Swank. I don't know their number, but surely someone on the forum does.

We called for a replacement and they sent one can to us and the other to some place in Cleveland. (I'm in Erie, PA) The other 1/2 had to be re-shipped on U.S.Air and I picked it up at the airport 45 min. before showtime.
I got it built with 10 min. to spare.

We had to get the video of the movie and set up the video proj. as a back up. I started the print and then waited about 2 min. before starting the video proj. (Leaving the lamp of the vid. proj. off) This way, if there was a meltdown, I could just go to video

Whomever had the print last, broke it down and just used masking tape to stick the heads and tails on, leaving stick-um all over the print. Not having any time to screen the print, I didn't find the stick-um until the print B/W'ed! It was only down for 3 minutes but the pain in the A$$ factor was high!

In the end, the quality of the second print was only slightly better than the first.

Don't these people have any clue? I heard that they have next to no storage space. They just send the prints from place to place and nobody at the company even sees them.

Anyhow, I hope to have either a Clint Eastwood (Spaghetti Western) theme or a Sci-Fi (Most influential in the Genre) theme.
I'm afraid some of those movies would be hard to come by. That's why I ask.

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I think generally that they have a separate rate schedule for non-profit & educational exhibition, & something a little steeper for purely commercial exhibition.

So for your project, you might want to start by setting up something like a non-profit film society, & pay yourself a salary as projectionist, and maybe another as director of the society.

It's the way stuff is done in that non-profit world.

Also, for prints, you can also call the studios.