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Topic: Unholy reels from HELL
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Tom Kroening
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 214
From: Janesville, WI USA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 01-24-2000 02:14 AM
Has anyone ever had the problem of having no holes in the reels for the pins to go into? We've recently had to take a drill, throw a large bit on there, and drill right through the plastic just to break down some of the prints. It's insane. Dispite broken and "unholy" reels, it would just be nice to get these slop jobs on time for a change. This last thursday i told one of my managers that i would be late gettin in the next morning because of school. He said it was no problem because he projects that day and will tell the other manager. So i get home from school and see the theatre on my caller ID. I come in to work kinda pissed off (because he never told the other manager), explain myself, then ask where the other manager is. It turns out magnolia got there at 11:30 that morning! Its about 12:30 when i got there (which was the time the first showing was supposed to start). He had to start it with just the 4 reels he had built and finish the rest while it was playing. Well as it turns out the show ran seamlessly. The customers never knew that thier movie was thrown on the floor, laced backwards up the tree, and hurridly spliced back together. You know, even pizza places usually give you the pie for free if its late, shouldn't we be compensated for money lost because of late prints? *idea*
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Joshua Lott
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 246
From: Fairbanks, AK, USA
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-04-2000 04:52 PM
I recieved 3 prints of Scream 3 yesterday. One print was Head,Tails,Tail,Head,Tail,Head,Tail. One was First reel heads, the rest tails. And the last print Was H,T,T,T,H,T,H. Over half of the reels were complete JUNK. This of course is nothing new. The funny thing about this is watching the projectionist I am training trying to figure out how to use broken reels. But I finally showed him how to use the split reels that we have. It was kind of funny, I thought that I would share.
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