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Topic: Curses on film done wrong! *Or* A rough night at work!
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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-22-2004 01:42 AM
Recently I've learned to really dread seeing what other places do to prints before shipping them out.
~*~I say this as a former head projectionist of a 10-plex, careful to 'do film right' - now at a single screen art house running c/o, still striving to 'do film right'~*~
Not only have I checked prints with heads and tails attached with masking tape, oh no. This week I was setting up a print of My Architect, and found all the heads spliced on -with double sided splices. Which would have been nice, had there only been the splice tape from that splice, and had that tape been clear rather than opaque. The tails of reels 1 & 2 were attached with masking tape, soundtracks not lined up. Reels 3-6, had tails spliced on, with the same amounts of extra tape, topmost layer opaque, and soundtracks not lined up. Reel 7 had gratuitous splices on the tail - but the soundtrack on each section was properly lined up. On top of all that, the damn thing has some obnoxious emulsion scratches!
We also started playing Good-Bye, Lenin! - and I noticed yucky green lines on-screen with that one as well. I didn't set it up as it arrived late enough to miss its first scheduled show, and play its next show beginning about 40 minutes late! Someone, somewhere, left the cans at a loading depot, instead of putting them on the bus that would arrive in Portland no later than half an hour before the first intended showtime, which would have left us with just enough time to get the show rolling on time. So the cans had to catch the next bus.
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