It leaves in 'as new if not better' condition. Not a single speck of dirt, dust or markings of any kind and with an SRD error rating hitting 0. in some parts of the film on a basement reader.

NO kidding, Michael Barry witnessed this phenomenon.

Unfortunately, this print will now go back to despatch and most likely will have an axe put through it within the next few weeks/months. They will probably keep however the local gigaplex's print with shedding dust and a non-playable SRD track.

It was a sad thing to see this one go...

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"It's not the years honey, it's the mileage' - Indiana Jones.

I'll bet that Moulin Rouge print looked magnificent. It's clearly the best photographed film I've seen this year. Unfortunately I'll bet that you are correct that the film depot will junk that print. The odds just aren't there and the depot workers don't care enough to pick and choose when it comes time for destruction.

I remember picking up some films at the depot and it was "junk X day". (I have replaced the name of the movie with X to protect the stupid and uncaring.) In the skids of prints "to be junked" were about a dozen BRAND NEW prints of X still in the lab boxes. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why they were about to junk all of those new prints that had never even been taken out of the box! It finally occured to me and I said to myself "aha, they must've had a couple of dozen new prints and were only told to keep a certain number, that these must've been extras on top of those." When I inquired to verify if my assumption was correct, the depot worker said "oh no, we've still got a few dozen prints out in theaters. We'll save those when they come back." Of course my response was "WHY THOSE??? You have BRAND NEW PRINTS OF THIS MOVIE RIGHT HERE!" The response? "Well, those prints could have a defect in them. The prints that are running in sub run theaters right now did not get any complaints from the theaters, so they must be perfect." Ugh! So sad.

The depots here (I think) only keep early print numbers and ours was about #270 or something...

Truly sad.

But then the Print is in good condition, cant have Arthouse cinema's like mine getting decent prints.....

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What makes it even more astonishing was that this particular print run was renown for Dolby Digital dropouts and bad print shedding (from reports at other circuits). John's theatre, however, was immune to any of this!

And yes, THIS is the print that should be archived...

We are now on to our second print of Moulin, first one SRD dropped out during the credits, second one has same problem, I wish I could ring them up and say send us print #270.

Moulin Rouge prints (Aussie anyway) all dropped out in SRD to SR for a fraction of a second just as Satine starts to sing 'Come What May' at the end. There is a negative spice in the track there. I don't know why.

I know that's not what you meant Paul, but just thought I'd add it.

It has been 4506 days since the last post.

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