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Topic: To Bloop or Not To Bloop
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-17-2003 03:44 AM
Splices that you make in your booth should not need to be blooped assuming the splicer is correctly aligned. As stated above, it is only when you get film that has been cut by misaligned splicers do you wind up with the troublesome gap.
As my fetish is that I will go to hell and back to avoid cutting off a frame, even to correct a frame that was cut "short," I use the Letraset black line tape to cover the frameline gap and cover the the soundtrack gap, and reenforce the splice so there is no hinge problem. The Letraset line tape is essentially what Steve is doing, only it is very thin, precut and has non-oozing adhesive, to say nothing of a lot less work. The line tape is then covered with splicing tape as usual.
I am surprised that an overlap splice will actually cause the film to jump the sprockets. In the old days of cement splices, the overlaps were wide -- the width of a perf -- and thick -- the double film thickness was much thicker than even four or five layers of tape. A well made cement splice hardly ever caused any run problems. I can't see how a double thickness of splicing tape, especially on estar base film should cause any problems.
Personally, I am not in favor of Brad's non-standard, slight overlap modification because someplace down the line, a cartoon or trailer or snipe that has been cut that way will wind up in a standard booth and either a short frame will have to be cut off or, at the very least, the gap it causes will have to be reenforced if the projectionist wants to save it. In the real world, most time the frame will be cut rather than someone taking the time to treat it so it will run properly.
Frank
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