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Author Topic: New AMC Trailers Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 12-30-2002 08:30 AM                    Must be that time of the decade or something. We just got our new "Coming Soon", "Silence Is Golden", & "Feature Presentation" trailers in. Of them all, I think the "Coming Soon" is my favorite. The Feature Pres is kinda cool, and the SIG is pretty cheesey. But then I always thought the SIG was cheesey. It's good to tell people to be quiet, but for some reason, AMC never comes up with a cool way to say it. Oh, well. An interesting note... they have SDDS *AND* SRD tracks! Wow! It's funny that they would produce their trailers in a sound format that they tell everyone not to use (SR). This is a funny company sometimes.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-30-2002 10:01 AM                     I think they should make Silence Is Golden trailers ratings-specific. For example, on G and PG movies, it could be instructing kids to "Use your Library Voices" for PG-13, it could instruct patrons to "Be quiet so that others may enjoy the performance." and for R rated features, simply: "Shut the up!" =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 12-30-2002 10:48 AM                    Great idea!  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-30-2002 12:44 PM                    Do all AMC's start shows with an admonishment to look for fire exits or is this just one local peculiarity?  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-30-2002 12:59 PM                        Regal has a graphical "In case of FIRE, head for the nearest EXIT!" slide. What's odd (heh) is the EXIT door shown on the slide is on fire.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2002 03:30 PM                        I believe that the AMC fire exit thing is specific to the locality. In this area, the Framingham cinema shows it (as required by the local fire marshall), but Burlington and Chestnut Hill don't. This hasn't changed since AMC took over from General Cinema.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-30-2002 05:02 PM                       I was struck with the irony, when I first saw AMC trailers in the former GCC houses. Some had been sent in, used, from existing theatres, and were replete with scratches, splices, etc. Oh, there IS a difference, alright! Btw, cool picture there, Scott! Do you have the others posted anywhere?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-30-2002 05:16 PM                     AMC should come up with a new snipe "Surround Speakers In The Ceiling Are Golden --The Gold Color of Pee." Maybe one of the executives for AMC has a two speaker stereo system at home. One speaker in front of him and one on the ceiling. That's how AMC's sound systems seem to me. With that, there's little point to SDDS and SR*D.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2002 05:37 PM                        Tim -- glad you like it! I'll email you the others the next time I borrow a scanner. For those who don't know (which is pretty much everyone here), Tim took that picture of me last summer. The camera in front of me is a 35mm Mitchell BNC (blimped newsreel camera), which was pretty much the standard for movies and TV shows from the '40s until the late '60s. It looks like I'm wearing a cape or something, though, the way Brad cropped it. BTW, since when has AMC told people not to use SR or SRD? I know that they have an SDDS fetish, but I didn't think that they had anything against the other formats.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-30-2002 08:34 PM                     From what I understand, AMC only buys SDDS now, and that is the preferred format, but if you have the other systems, you may use them if the film does not have SDDS or if the unit in that particular house is not functioning properly. Im not quite sure about SR (Id have to look over some documents), but I was once told by someone higher up (dont remember who) that most films are A and not SR. I tend to check my head leaders, so I know better.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-30-2002 08:50 PM                    It is not true that AMC only buys SDDS. A-type noise reduction is extremely rare now. I've only encountered it twice this year out of several hundred films and both of those were very obscure small films. For all practical purposes at mainstream theatres Dolby A is obsolete.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-30-2002 11:07 PM                     What else are they buying that you know of? From what I was told, they used to buy some Dolby Digital and DTS units as well as installing SDDS on all screens, but they quit doing that and buy only SDDS now.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 12-31-2002 10:16 AM                    quote: but I was once told by someone higher up (dont remember who) that most films are A and not SR. Most mainstream films have at least SRD tracks, which means that the analog is SR. The only one I've seen recently that doesn't have an SRD track is MBFGW which is SR only. Like Steve said, Dolby A is extremely rare these days. AMC does have some Dolby and DTS houses (we have two of the latter, and none of the former) but every time I inquire about getting SR cards for our Ultra Stereos so we can at least show non-SDDS prints (and trailers for that matter) in the proper analog format, the response I get is "Never show anything in SR!" Which just seems odd to me. Oh, well.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-31-2002 12:11 PM                       quote: Most mainstream films have at least SRD tracks, which means that the analog is SR. While it may be common practice, it's not automatic nor a function of SRD. When I was researching recording NR systems for my own films, someone at Dolby told me this isn't necessarily so. The analog could be A-type, if the filmmaker wanted it. Why would be another question...  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-31-2002 12:24 PM                     quote: every time I inquire about getting SR cards for our Ultra Stereos so we can at least show non-SDDS prints (and trailers for that matter) in the proper analog format, the response I get is "Never show anything in SR!" Then why even buy those Ultra Stereo processors?  |  IP: Logged

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