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Topic: Making an Intermission
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-04-2000 09:45 AM
We are showing Topsy-Turvy at Mercyhurst this week...It's a long movie and we have the "smaller" Potts-Alpha platter system. I'm not sure I'll be able to build it up without putting an intermission in. We played Ghandi and were BARELY able to get it all on one platter. Two questions: 1) Do you think I can get it all on one platter? 2) If not, does anybody know what's the best place in the movie to put the "break". What I plan to do is put a few feet of black leader and then an "Intermission" strip. At the head of the second "act" I have an "On with the Show" strip. (You know, those things from Filmack) I've never seen the movie so I don't know if there is a good "breaking point" in the story. What reel do you all suggest I make the break after?
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John Pytlak
Film God
Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 04-04-2000 12:56 PM
If the print is so long that it is right out to the edge of the platter, I suggest making a "retaining ring" out of a metal or flexible plastic band, and fastening it to the outer circumference of the platter after the roll has been built. Maybe something as simple as a 3-inch (75mm) flexible plastic moulding, tightened around the platter with a turnbuckle.I've also suggested a "hoola hoop" like retaining ring be put around the print after it is made up / taken up onto the platter, to prevent the film from getting out of round, sliding off center, or even being thrown off the platter ("platter fling"). A solid ring would be much more effective than a "tail tuck" or suction cup / Stickapoo platter clips in keeping the print in place. I wrote an article called "Platter Patter" last September: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/reel/september99/pointers.shtml ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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