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Topic: Lab etiquette
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-01-1999 08:08 PM
And the wish list for labs:
- Please make sure ALL reels are facing the same direction. Ideally they should all be tails out.
- When using spliced raw stock, is there no way to ensure the splices end up on a frame line?
- Slow those printers down! Enough with the shaky movies! Lately it seems like all movies were shot by the Blair Witch people.
- When reprinting an older movie, please make the necessary adjustments in the color timing. I'm tired of seeing green movies.
I'm sure I'm leaving something off here. By the way, did anyone hear of the second generation prints of "Double Jeopardy"? Apparently "reel 1" was actually reel 1 "A" and reel 4 "B". Oops.
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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today
Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-02-1999 03:45 AM
I think when they put another name for a movie in place of the real one, like "Mother's Day" for "Stepmom", "The Dish" for "Cable Guy", "31257" (I think) for "Lost World" on the cans, they are trying to deter print theft. Why anyone would want to steal "Stepmom" is beyond me.But if the labs only chose to improve 1 thing and 1 thing only, it would have to be the printing speed. I don't know of anyone who got a steady print of "6th Sense". I am getting customer complaints up the wazoo about this, and so is every other theatre in my town. And lately just about every movie is "bob and weave city" simply because these people are printing too fast! There is absolutely no excuse for this and is amateur behavior. Now the entire industry is projecting unsteady images, even though on test film and older prints everything is nearly rock-steady. John Pytlak, you know a great deal about the labs. What is up with this? Can ya yell at them for us? They are putting a bad image on the entire industry and it is absolutely imperative that they improve the way they print these films. Cost is not an issue, simply because if they keep going faster and faster then soon they will not have a job because the product is so shoddy and we are all watching the big TV! AAARRRGGGGG!!!!!!
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 10-02-1999 06:30 PM
Actually the 'title' for the version A SW:TPM trailer was 'Box Lunch'And of course, TPM's 'secret title' was "Perfect Timing" and some of the prints of 'Alien:Resurrection' that I handled were titled 'Weaven' Aaron
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