Hi John!!John Wilson said : "Those prints have been to Cremorne...say no more."
Now, now John, I work there now - remember!
I've lifted my self ban on posting at Film-Tech Forums due to one of the company's policy
I work for in regards for what it thinks of Filmguard and this site itself - and I dont mean Hayden - they want it!
I impossed the the ban in the first place because I was told to be careful what I said about this company.
I was going to visit you at Randwick last Saturday night 6th April 02,
after my day shift at Cremorne, regarding just how well Filmguard and the those cleaner gizmos work.
Perhaps I should have, because I got a call from the other place I work for at 11pm
THAT Saturday night, that BLACK NIGHT had chucked a wrap around.
Now normally, I use a little of Michael's Filmguard (50ml) that I knocked of him when was not
looking a few months ago, for films that are showing signs of sticking.
However the supply ran out a few weeks, and Hoy*s seem to have a
"Filmguard is not proven / overpriced / long term film damaged - DONT USE policy"
Another location sent a location wide intranet email asking where to get Filmguard, and they got into immediate trouble.
(I have sent Brad private emails regarding this - first reply was cool, waiting for him to sort out more info)
Our location wants the stuff as we know it works. Our location is the lowest on the the food chain,
and we HAVE to hand over our print(s) if another location scatches a print, admitted this happens only
perhaps once a year, but its annoying, to know that if its a base scratch, perhaps we can recover the
print to to be presentable using Filmguard and the cleaners - which they seem to not to want to research properly.
Anyway, we edge waxed both sides (thought of hitting it with the WD40 too - but nah - seems to work on DTS players
pretty good though - now WHERE did I see that demostrated??!! 
)
It runs ok now but MUST be baby sitted, The one I used the last of the FilmGuard supply on
was Kate & Leopold and the print has been running smooth as, since.
Anyway enough of that, onto MAD MAX I & II double
The prints we recieved of Mad Max and Mad Max 2 at Cremorne were advertised as brand new.
They were not, and we did not damage them in anyway.
Mad Max was in pretty good condition, Max 2 had bad base scratches, and that is one reason Im typing
this message, as you know in the Art House scene we are often promised brand new prints, only to
find they are heavily base scratched. (Funny Girl comes to mind) and 70mm 2001.
(Im worried about the 70mm Titanic we are waiting for to screen on the aniversary of the sinking April 14th)
NOW if Filmguard REALLY cleans up the base scratches Im there - My task is get this stuff - in "my" theatres.
As for sound formats on the Max films, I can remember, we pulled the SRD unit out of cinema 5 as it had
a Kelvar basement reader and was just a pain in the ass, so its DTS only now.
I think the Max 2 had a choice of analog mono, SRD and DTS but there were no DTS available in the country.
I think the Max original was simply Dolbly SR.
Regards Bill Langfield
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posted 03-29-2002 09:35 AM
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