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Topic: Damaged coach carter print
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David Yauch
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 206
From: Mesa, AZ, USA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 01-15-2005 12:59 AM
This past thursday I was one of three working build-up for the 10 prints we got in. Luckily the other two stayed busy and by the time I was scheduled on I was only left with two. The first one I built was Coach Carter. We usually only get first-run prints, so I was surprised when I found several tape splices, random splices in the middle of the film(i almost think these may have been lab splices which were removed, except they left 2 more lab splices in the print...), creased film, and splices which had been blooped with marker all the way down into the picture area. After reel 3, everything looked normal. In fact, reels 4-8 showed no signs of having ever been used before. Not knowing what was going on, I built up the print onto a platter and left it to be screened. When I walked over to see what it looked like, I was greeted by HUGE base side dirt scratches all over the film. It looked like someone had dropped the print, monkey stomped it, and tried to eat the evidence. I knew immediately that we'd need some replacement reels, so I asked the manager in charge of the screening to tell me which reels were destroyed. It turns out the damage stops midway through reel 3.
My question is how the hell could this have happened? And why would there only be a few reels like this in a film can, accompanied with several brand new reels. Luckily I am cleared in the incident, having built these reels onto 6000's making it very unlikely that I could have managed to destroy the first 2.5 reels then suddenly and miraculously built the rest of the print(and the next print) flawlessly. The logic here just doesn't add up though. I don't see why there would be such a mix of old and new reels in the same can, or how a print could be so screwed up on a new movie, or why the film damage(which is severe) stops midway through the 3rd reel, or how I could get stuck with this piece of shit of all the people in the world it could've gone to! I stayed by the MUT during the entire build up process, I had other projectionists verify that the print was indeed used before just to cover my ass, I let the booth manager know what was going on before I was even done building the print, and in months of build-up I've built a very good record, my only error so far was a bad splice in a print of aviator. I don't know if I could've done anything else to cover my ass, but I'd like a possible explanation to give if asked how the film could've been damaged by the prior theatre in such a way.
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