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Topic: My Star Wars trailer was spliced out of frame, was yours?
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 03-13-2005 08:24 PM
quote: The ones that I can't stand will cut into the opening fadein and/or soundtrack of the feature,
Hey Scott...I can tell you a secret on this one: Let's go back to 1977, when the original StarWars came out.
I worked for Mann Theatres at that time running booth at large single screen house. With circuit ownership, there is that always required "policy/feature" tag that must be attached at the front of the first reel.
Got SW in and was ready to attach this tag, but noticed that the soundtrack information started way back into the academy leader and long before the negative attachment splice, where I was going to cut the leader off anyway to attach this tag. And obviously, I wasn't going to cut into Lionel Newman's famous "Fox Fanfare" piece.
What I did was, a foot before the fanfare began, was take vinyl electrical tape, laid it across the remaining part of the lead that still had numbers, thus I can made my cut a good foot above the fanfare entry, thus preserving the complete fanfare, and having a good black entry into the presentation, since I had to attach that tag before all of this.
Another small trick that I did with this original SW release: we all know that end of Reel 1 and the beginning of Reel 2 is a fadeout changeover. I used to place a sliver of this electrical tape on edge where the last number was on the lead of Reel 2, so I would have an "audible" splice to let me know that is when to open up that machine's dowser so I could have a smooth flowing opening fade changeover to the 2nd reel when the 1st reel scene would fade out. I would have my 2nd reel's number at "9" in the framebox on my XL's, so I would have a perfect fade changeover between these two reels.
..little tricks in being of professional presentation that I used to do.
-Monte
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