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Dick Vaughan
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1032
From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 01-03-2001 03:38 AM

We are currently putting together the programme for our next Widescreen Weekend (9-12 March) and as usual are searching the globe for good condition 70mm prints.

Could anyone with firsthand recent knowledge of availability of prints either post information here with contact names & numbers for the print distributors or e-mail me direct r.vaughan@nmsi.ac.uk.

Thanks for your help

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John Pytlak
Film God

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

posted 01-03-2001 07:46 AM

Last autumn, we started compiling a list of known good condition 70mm prints on the "Feature Info & Trailer Attachments" forum of Film-Tech. The listings are by title with "(70mm prints)" after it.

Again, anyone with first-hand knowledge of the condition, availability and location of 70mm prints should add the information to the listing, so theatres looking for good 70mm prints specify which prints they want when negotiating with distributors.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-03-2001 02:21 PM

In toronto there are still 70mm prints of
Lawrence of Arabia
almost all the Star Trecks
Raiders (red)
temple of doom (fair)
hamlet
vertigo
titanic
Sound of Music
there is also prints of but no distributor
Pink Flyod the wall
Logans Run
Tommy
Windjammer
Grand Prix
2010
outland
alliens
blade runner
die hard1
die hard2

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Jonathan M. Crist
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 531
From: Hershey, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 01-03-2001 06:48 PM

ETS depot in Philadelphia had a bunch of 70MM prints sitting in a corner when I visited a couple of months ago. When I asked what they were, the fellow responded that he did not know but they had been shipped in from other depots and they were just sitting there because no one had the time (and, I suspect, the interest) to go through them.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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

posted 01-03-2001 07:35 PM

That sounds like a common situation. I've found that NFS jumbled up many reels of the 70mm prints. For example, a few years back we booked a 70mm print of The Abyss for a midnight show and in the cans was Hoffa! Other movies had a mixture of reels from different films. I remember one print had 2 reels of Spaceballs, a Dick Tracy reel, a 70mm trailer pack (someone was really on the ball when they broke that film down) and a couple of other oddities. It was supposed to be The Untouchables I think (it's been a long time and my memory may be failing me).

A couple of us offered to go through every 70mm print in the ETS depot and reassemble the proper reels in the proper cans, but we were declined. As it is now, some of these films have since been junked...meaning the prints that remain may be missing a reel due to them being in the wrong cans. Pathetic.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-04-2001 03:58 PM

I whole heartedly agree with you Brad, ETS is a very poorly run operation at best. Its obvious that there's no care at all in the people that are in charge of that company just in the few visits I have made to various depots of theirs. When it comes to 70mm there is absolutely no care at all. I wonder how much these clowns get paid to store all these films? I wonder how much they really make when they get junked..........?
Mark

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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

posted 01-04-2001 08:12 PM

Actually, I've not found ETS to be the problem, but NFS who had the 70mm prints before the move to ETS. For all films that opened after NFS shut down, I've not run across any mixups.

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Martin Frandsen
Master Film Handler

Posts: 270
From: Denmark, Europe
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-05-2001 01:47 PM

Dick, i am looking forward to the Bradford Film Festival this year. This will be my first time there, hopefully not the last!

Looking forward to see your final program!

Kind regards,

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Martin Frandsen

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