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Leo Enticknap
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posted 02-11-2002 03:22 AM
I've just seen the following in 'Cinemascope' (the British Film Institute's newsletter for exhibitors): quote: Brian Walters, BFI Programme Unit writes:There have been serious problems with the level of service provided by Securicor, and since John Badham left these problems seem to have worsened. On 18 October Christine Woodhouse [BFI bookings], Phil Hills and Lorraine Salter [BFI print despatch] and myself had a meeting with Stephen Howard, a Development Manager at Securicor. Stephen acknowledged that there had been some problems and plans to visit a number of organisations to get an idea of what people feel needs to be done. He hopes to start work on getting a system in place where film boxes can easily be identified by drivers and therefore improve the level of service. We have not as yet had a follow up meeting but hope to have one later this year. Up to now though, nothing has improved. The CEA [Cinema Exhibitors' Association - UK representative organisation for theatres] has sent out 'print report sheets' to cinemas, which are to be filled out when prints are not delivered on time. These should be sent to John Wilkinson at the CEA, who is liaising with distributors, and to Lisa Doherty, who handles complaints, at: Securicor Cinema Department Sutton Park House 15 Carshalton Road Sutton Surrey SM1 4LE I hope to have a meeting soon with Stephen Howard and am also keen to invite Lisa Doherty and Emma Roberts from the Securicor Cinema Department. There is no adequate system in place whereby cinemas can get compensation for prints not being delivered in time for a screening, an issue we are keen to raise at the meeting. This needs to be rectified as soon as possible so Securicor realsise just how much their poor service is costing cinemas. I'll keep you informed of further developments.
I wonder what this 'system' for enabling Securicor's drivers to spot the film boxes will be? Teaching them to read?!
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 02-12-2002 06:53 AM
I agree with Darren - the problem does not lie with Gerry or any individual working for Securicor - it's the failure rate of the system as a whole that's the issue.As for crossover drivers not providing receipts, I eventually printed out my own receipt slips which had boxes for the film title, print number, destination cinema (full address), time and date of collection and full name/company of person collecting. I wouldn't release a print without either the Securicor generated paperwork (e.g. an entry in the Perivale book or one of their separate consignment slips) or one of my own slips. At least if the film did then get lost, we had the paperwork to prove that it wasn't us who lost it. BTW, Darren, is City Screen still keeping its head above water? When I walked over Lendal Bridge going to the station this morning, the walkway on the north bank between Lendal and Scarborough bridges was already under a foot of water, but the level looked like it was still 3-4 feet above the City Screen basement windows. But Radio York said that a 'surge' was due down the Ouse at around midday. Did you survive?
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Michael Hunt
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posted 02-12-2002 10:05 AM
An interesting thread to come across today...I'm waiting for Securicor to deliver a copy of a Bollywood feature 'Pitaah' for screening tonight and tomorrow at 6.30pm... Its nearly 4pm, and despite calls to the distributor and the local Securicor depot the print still hasn't arrived, but they've kindly informed me that 'its definately on its way' If it doesn't arrive soon I'm probably going to have to show Harry Potter instead... on the subject of crossovers, I get a few of them, usually arthouse material, and crossover or not, always break down the feature and box it up following its last screening, and then leave it out labelled up for the next cinema if I've been informed where its going... Recently Securicor have collected prints labelled for crossover early the next morning, when they've made a film delivery, and have then come in before lunchtime to collect it again, usually with a comment of 'They've been told not to collect those sort of films...' for example, we finish with 'The Piano Teacher' this Thursday, for crossover to the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, playing the 19th Feb (Thank you for the info Artificial Eye, you're one of the few film distributors that bother to tell cinemas about crossovers) The print will be ready for pick up after midnite, and I expect that it will have been collected Friday morning with next weeks deliveries... no doubt I'll get yet another second visit... ------------------ There must be more to life than Film and Rugby... Gwan Glawster!!!
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