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Topic: Do I send back 16 1000' cores or 8 2000' cores?
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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-19-2003 01:53 PM
I normally follow the "send it back the way you got it, if not better" principle, but the practical side of me says that shipping on 1000' reels is just asking for shows to be run out of order, missed changeovers, lost frames, and other examples of "film done wrong."
I can't believe that even the most masochistic changeover operator would run it on 1000' reels, especially if the leaders had already been cut. Thus, I'd probably send it back in 2000' segments on cores, along with the empty cans, the original "extra" leaders, and a note explaining the situation.
Perhaps this would be worth a phone call to the distributor to see what they would prefer.
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-20-2003 12:11 AM
I found out today that this print, HERITAGE AFRICA, as well as all the others in this festival are going directly to other art theatres here in the US (none but two of all the titles in the festival have US distributors). So there is no good reason to break it back down which will just cause more handling at the 1000ft joints, not to mention make the next guy curse me for fifteen minutes when he opens the boxes.
The last guy on the US tour, probably another three or four months from now, can break it down to 1000ft if he wants -- all the leaders with ID frames are well marked, but my guess is that no one, not even the owner of the print will want it on 1000 ft reels. Plus, I now realize that since there were no cues on any of the rolls, this means that it had never run (nor probably would) as 1000ft change-over. Probably the only reason it came on 1000ft rolls is that it was sent from the lab in Africa directly to the festival. Usually the distributor's exhange does the 2000ft makeup, but it has none.
Thanks all for the advice.
Frank
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
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posted 04-22-2003 06:49 PM
Steve said: "I would call or email them so there is no question that you're doing the right thing either way."
I would, Steve, except this festival seems to be a pretty home-spun operation with the prints that had no distribs being trucked around the country by a few women who seemed to know precious little about the technology -- they made no distinction between VHS and 35mm, and were perfectly happy when a Sony LCD video projector with the wrong sized, very short-focus lens showed up and the only way to fit the picture on the screen was to use the 16:9 setting for a 4:3 image. They were quite happy with it.
This 35mm print had no distributor and the filmmaker was somewhere in Africa, so there was no one to call. It went back with all the heads and tails clearly marked. and placed in the empty plastic containers. It should be a piece of cake for any competent projectionist to break it down if he has to, although I think that is somewhat unlikely for the rest of the tour. Besides, if anyone is running 1000ft change-over, you know he's certainly no popcorn popper projectionist!
And no, Brad, I don't have a sticker -- wish I did. I have been looking for years for a WB's graphic of the MegaSound logo. I have a 1-sheet of ALTERED STATES and there is no reference at all on it, and I am SURE that picture was where they promoted that moniker. We've kind of morphed the whole phrase into a bastardized 70mm logo. I'd tell you to see it on the website, but we changed over to fiberoptics yesterday and now nothing works....just like video being streamed to DLP servers .
I do have Brooklyn Center Cinema coffee mugs if you are interested.
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