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Topic: Changing Trailers on a Platter
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Thomas Pitt
Master Film Handler
Posts: 266
From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: May 2007
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posted 01-26-2008 05:06 PM
I would have thought it would be dead easy to change trailers (or commercials) when the movie's on a platter. Run the film onto a reel using your MUT (as if you were breaking down), then when you see the trailer you want to change, splice the film and pull the trailer out. Then splice the new trailer onto the reel and platter film, and wind it all back.
Alternatively take the whole trailer 'reel' off the platter this way, then rearrange/add/remove trailers as you wish on the rewind bench before winding the trailer 'reel' back onto the platter.
Regarding running a show with only part of the trailer pack, there's an easy way to do that without needing to splice the film at all. Simply thread the projector as normal, and run the film through until it gets to the point where you want to start your cut-down trailer package. Then, when it gets to the advertised showtime, start up the projector and it'll run without the earlier trailers on the film. I've actually seen cinemas do this for 'last play' screenings, on which they have fewer adverts and trailers.
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Jack Ondracek
Film God
Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 01-26-2008 07:33 PM
Sean, your opening post here is not entirely accurate. I read the thread over there, contributed to it as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but until you brought it up, your name was not mentioned, only text from your email. Certainly, everyone who posts on both boards can now figure out who you are and that you aren't happy.
The person who posted text from your response did so because he doesn't see things the way you do. So what? These boards are here so everyone can express their opinion. If you can't handle it when somebody doesn't agree with you, this isn't the friendliest place for you to be. Seems to me that unless you two had some privacy agreement, your message to him became his property, once you sent it into his computer. Nobody's "attacking" you. Your position is just being challenged. Defend it or shrug it off. Just don't plant a bomb somewhere then go to another forum and whine.
That said, you're welcome to believe what you do. I've been around projectors for nearly 40 years, and I freely admit that many of the habits I'm comfortable with go back maybe before you were born. That's not to say I'm any more right than anyone else. However, if you or I choose to lay our ideals out in a professional forum, we should be fully prepared to have them challenged by people who don't necessarily agree with you.
So how 'bout dialing it back a bit? The guy over there likes things the way he does it and feels most comfortable with a process that you don't care for. You feel OK with the way you do things, even though they're different. The audience doesn't know any better, and the show goes on.
Keep clam!
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John Walsh
Film God
Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 01-27-2008 06:10 AM
Like most things, if an operator knows what they are doing, changing out trailers on a platter can be done quickly and 'cleanly.' But if they don't, it can turn into a nightmare. I would guess that 75% of 'film-threaders' are employees with less than nine months of total theater experience, very little of which is spent learning actual projection. Even then, they are taught improper/lazy/damaging practices. As such, they do not have the skill to properly change trailers on a platter. In those cases, the; 'run the trailers on, stop and splice such that they are not seen for the first show' may be the best way to keep things clean.
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