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Darryl Spicer
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Posts: 3250
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-23-2002 07:12 PM
Well, as far as E cinema It will be many years down the road before every single screen in the world will be digital. So this should not effect the decision of the film companies as to how they deliver films. Many factors occured during the test phaze if the ELR.Only Warner Bros. used them as far as I know and most of the time the reels were still spliced together with a cement splice. The reels would always fall apart because nobody new how to put them together. They also did not fit or work properly with rewind benches and platter make-up tables. All these problems forced you into spending the same amount of time putting a film together. No real time was saved in my opinion. If you had a bad reel of film you had to replace the whole 6000' reel instead of a 2000' reel. There are other reasons why they didn't work that can be found doing a search on this site.
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-24-2002 09:48 AM
The Extended Length Reel (ELR) is unlikely to be used in the future. Only Warner Bros. and New Line used them to any extent. The concept was good, but the execution had some problems (e.g., incompatibility of some reels with some make-up tables, labs still spliced reels together AFTER processing, some theatres were not equipped to handle the ELR or still used 2000-foot reels, some film exchanges were not equipped with needed equipment and racks, cases had shipping limitations due to size and weight, etc.).------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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