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Sara Serine Orton
Film Handler

Posts: 32
From: Moscow, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-02-2000 09:18 PM

I didn't see the Hurricane posted on the other forum so if anyone could tell me what lens the Hurricane is in I would be greatful!
Thanks

Sara

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Sara Serine Orton
Film Handler

Posts: 32
From: Moscow, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-02-2000 09:32 PM

Come on... I there's somebody out there who knows.... ;-)

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Dustin Mitchell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1865
From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 05-02-2000 10:01 PM

Scope...I think

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 05-02-2000 11:11 PM

If memory serves, it is flat with all digital formats. Universal release.

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Sara Serine Orton
Film Handler

Posts: 32
From: Moscow, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-03-2000 12:07 AM

It's FLAT! I got it all built up with a Scope DTS at the beginning... and its Flat. I hate it when that happens.

Thanks for all your help guys!

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 962
From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 05-03-2000 10:52 AM

Can't you just, like, look at a frame and tell? Distorted picture= scope. Normal= flat. No guesswork.

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"Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 05-03-2000 01:13 PM

I've got a great idea! ANAMORPHIC CONTACT LENSES! Now you can look at the film on the rewind bench, and see a scope frame as it was meant to be seen on the screen.

Ever since they got out of the projector lens business, Bausch & Lomb has been looking for a way to use their experience with CinemaScope to sell more contact lenses. This is IT!

WARNING: Using these contact lenses to look in a mirror may make you anorexic.

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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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Sara Serine Orton
Film Handler

Posts: 32
From: Moscow, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-03-2000 06:18 PM

--Can't you just, like, look at a frame and tell? Distorted picture= scope. Normal= flat. No guesswork.--

Yes you are right but sometimes I can't tell. I don't fully trust myself. That's why I asked for help.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-03-2000 06:42 PM

Hey Sara,
If its flat and you run it in scope the hurricane will be far larger and that'll add much excitement to the film. Give that some thought.
Professor Brainard

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-03-2000 10:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by John Pytlak:
I've got a great idea! ANAMORPHIC CONTACT LENSES! Now you can look at the film on the rewind bench, and see a scope frame as it was meant to be seen on the screen.

It takes a while to subconsciously learn to blink your eyes instead of moving them back and forth to follow the frame as it goes by. Until you learn to do that you get nasty headaches and neausea.

How about something for the headache you get from trying to look at the moving film?

Gotta' admit, it's a great way to impress people. Just get a piece of film going on the rewinder and tell people what's on it. They'll get dizzy and fall down before they figure it out!

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