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Author Topic: Cody Banks Misprint Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-20-2003 01:00 PM                     According to two projectionists and a manager at one of my theatres, one of our "Agent Cody Banks" (Reel-1) is printed in such a way that it is impossible to cut on a frame-line. At first we thought it was a bad splice but, apparently, it's the way it got printed -- all splices to that reel will be bad. I'm going over there to take a look for myself right now before I go and order a replacement reel. Anybody else got a bad Reel-1 of this movie?  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-21-2003 02:11 AM                    No problems with ours but I have seen this happen before. Once I had it happen thru half a reel and once for just a few feet. Both incidents occured after a lab splice.  |  IP: Logged Patrick McDonough Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Greenfield Ma. Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-21-2003 08:49 AM                     our copy was fine, but we have had problems like that.  |  IP: Logged Tony Ratcliff Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Madison, IN, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 03-21-2003 12:00 PM                     I've seen that a few times over the years. Royal pain in the rear when it happens. Tony  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-21-2003 03:58 PM                     Thanks. I'd never seen that before. (Replacement reel already on the way.)  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-22-2003 04:59 PM                        A possible explanation is that the film jumped a sprocket during printing, likely after a lab splice. Was the image also slightly out of focus for a brief time? If so, it would be a one-time incident that affected only one reel of one print.  |  IP: Logged

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