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Topic: Cue Dots done wrong!
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Michael Hunt
Film Handler
Posts: 63
From: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, UK
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-31-2002 11:12 AM
Grrr!!!I've just finished making up print number UK 20 of Apocalypse Now Redux, and some previous idiot decided to hack there own cue dots into the ends of the reels where they'd run changeover... The bloody home made things are about the size of three sprocket holes!!! 'Homemade' cues have always been a pet hate, especially as I run both changeover and platter depending on which screen I'm using... I wish those people who don't have a proper cue dot marker would refrain from hacking holes in prints, and put temporary dots on using wax pencil or other removeable media... The print is on a platter at the moment, but will be transferred to 6000' reels for its last screening next week, and I just know that these bloody hacked in cues will be on the wrong reels (i.e. in the middle of my 6000'ers) ------------------
There must be more to life than Film and Rugby... Gwan Glawster!!!
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Bill Gabel
Film God
Posts: 3873
From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-31-2002 02:14 PM
I believe Christy's Editoral Supply in Burbank Ca. had
them in their catalog. Page 35 Theatre Cue Marker 35mm $58.00
70mm $58.00
Replacement Cue Marker scribes $30.00
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 01-31-2002 03:45 PM
There must have been a time when cue markers either weren't available, or were too expensive, for I have a hand-made marker
made from a brass screen-door hinge, with tiny holes bored, and tiny punch-pins brazed opposite. By inserting the film and closing the hinge, four very tiny holes were made in precisely the correct
position. Rust-proof, one-piece (no Pharo scriber to get lost),
it is operated with one hand and fits easily in a vest pocket.*
Cost: zilch, plus time and the satisfaction of do-it yourself.
I wonder when the maker met his Maker?
*(Yes, many of the old-timers worked in vests, with green-eyeshades!)
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John Walsh
Film God
Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 01-31-2002 11:16 PM
I have a Cline Phare ("Signo-Marker") c/o cue scriber that makes a dot just about where the lab puts them. I would think different labs use different scribers, so you probably can't get one scriber match all.The old-timer who taught me told me not to whine about hard-to-see marks and pay attention ("They're supposed to be hard to see!") But if they were particularly dark, to only scribe over the first and third dot. I notice some prints from overseas have very small dots; a German print had square "motor start" cues and round c/o cues. I ran a wonderfully photographed French film about birds that had no cues (someone drew ugly grease pencil slashes across the frame.) I would imagine there are people who think by making the cues impossible to miss, think no one will miss the c/o. So they are using the right reasons to do the wrong thing.
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