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Matt Richardson
Film Handler

Posts: 1
From: New York, NY USA
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 09-17-2002 07:17 PM

Hi-
What's a "moo print?" I saw the term on a pre-show advertisement slide at a theater recently, and I can't seem to find a definition of the term anywhere. They never showed the answer slide at the theater, and it's driving me up a wall.

Thanks,
Matt
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Student, New York

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 09-17-2002 09:50 PM

I think this is like "cigarette burns." I never heard of it.

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Mitchell Cope
Master Film Handler

Posts: 256
From: Overland Park, KS, United States
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-17-2002 10:16 PM

A search on google came up with this moo print.

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-18-2002 12:21 AM

The first thing I thought of was the Tex "Moo" THX trailer, but what that has to do with pre-show slide advertising is beyond me.

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John Schulien
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 206
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 09-18-2002 12:26 AM

I saw the same advertising slides.

The question was, approximately, "What is the
term for a perfectly manufactured film print?"

Answer: a Moo print.

I never heard of the term either.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 09-18-2002 12:56 AM

The "Tex 2: Moo Can" THX trailer is on the new "Monsters Inc." DVD. I know it is a little off topic, but I thought I'd pass it along.

I have no idea what a Moo print is. Perhaps film reels printed in Wisconsin? Or a commerical on film for Gateway Computers?

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 09-18-2002 05:49 AM

John Schulien wrote: "The question was, approximately, "What is the
term for a perfectly manufactured film print?""

The THX TAP print standards refer to "EK Select" and "EK Show" prints, and "Select" and "Show" prints. No "Moo" prints:
http://www.thx.com/professional_services/labgrad.pdf

But maybe someone developed that slang with the tie to the THX TAP print grading program and the THX "Tex" mooing trailer?

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-18-2002 12:29 PM

quote:
The question was, approximately, "What is the term for a perfectly manufactured film print?"

They still make those?!

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 09-18-2002 12:45 PM

Adam Martin asked: "...a perfectly manufactured film print?...They still make those?!"

Welcome to the real world of sometimes having to ship 5000 prints only a week after you receive the final cut negative. As the saying goes: "FAST, CHEAP, GOOD --- choose two."

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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 09-18-2002 07:50 PM

I'm shocked that all you moo-vie mavens chickened out on "moo print",
so I won't "duck" my responsibility to enlighten yo'all.

A moo print is a shortened term for a film from the Hong Kong laboratories made with a Cantonese flame-hardening process after being filmed with a special form of camera movement. The proper term is "Moo-Goo-Gai-Pan." Because its outer layer is somewhat oily, handling is usually followed by "War-Shu-Op."

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 09-18-2002 07:52 PM

Does that come in a low fade, low-MSG version?

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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 09-19-2002 01:49 AM

On the topic of Moo Goo Gai Pan, has anyone here ever seen the old Bob Newhart show episode of the same fame?

Dave

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