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Topic: Mixing IB Tech and regular reels?
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Charles Everett
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Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 01-27-2002 05:14 PM
When I saw Gosford Park yesterday at the AMC Hamilton I noticed the print was a mix of IB Tech and regular reels. How could I tell? Thanks to Film-Tech it's easy: The cue marks -- black for regular and clear for IB Tech.I came across a similar mix of IB Tech and regular reels when I saw Harry Potter at the Loews Kips Bay in NYC before Xmas. Are the depots now mixing IB Tech and regular reels before sending a print to the theater? I assume it's the depots since this isn't limited to one studio. Or could the regular reels be replacements for defective IB Tech reels?
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-27-2002 09:53 PM
Hand scribed cue marks do NOT mean they are IB prints...I highly doubt you would have a mixed print and the image quality between the reels should have been quite noticable.If you had green cues (or the old star) then the IB print issue may have been valid. Where were the white circle placements (actually they would have been oval)...a proper Scope cue is high on the screen (towards the top) and further towards the middle than a normal FLAT cue. If the white cue was way over to the right, then it was merely a hand scribed cue. If the reel in question was on a dark scene and the theatre had poor light on the screen, then the operator might have scribed the cue. Mind you, it could have happened at a previous theatre or screening. Steve ------------------ "Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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