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Author Topic: Technicolor will ship "REPO MEN" in orange box Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-22-2010 05:21 PM                        Email just received says that Tech will start using their print box with the Universal film "Repo Men." "Improved" features are: - Handle is now on top of the box (like Deluxe) because the side handles proved not sturdy enough - There will be four velcro strips added to the flap closures on the box (I'm not sure how to picture this) - The corrugations will run horizontally, not vertically like the Deluxe box - they say it makes the box stronger - They will ship a maximum of 6 reels in one box Also they expect the box to last "four turns." I guess that means shipping in-and-out four times, which seems minimal for such a sturdy type of box. You'd think a hard-plastic box would be about the same $, and last longer. But would be more expensive to make, I suppose.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-22-2010 10:37 PM                        Oh wow I can't wait I wish everything shipped in large corrugated back-friendly plastic boxes! And for those who say your back is at risk... who cares? Certainly not the depots. The depot likes boxes better because they are easier to stack, they don't care about your back. In fact, they wish you would die.  |  IP: Logged Michael Voiland Expert Film Handler Posts: 219 From: Naperville, IL US Registered: Aug 2009 posted 02-22-2010 10:51 PM                     meh great now there are more boxes to carry up the flights of stairs. FAIL. Meh there is an elevator in our building but it doesn't run to the level our build station is on.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-23-2010 01:04 AM                        Do you actually say "meh" out loud?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2010 01:22 AM                        Cans are history. Might as well get used to it. The inability of shipping companies to keep two cans together has spoken.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-23-2010 11:18 AM                    quote: Mike Blakesley Cans are history. Unless it is 7 reels or more in Technicolors case.....unless they use two boxes for one print.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2010 11:20 AM                        That's what they are saying...anything 7 or more reels will come in 2 boxes. Obviously this goes against what they want, i.e. keeping the print in one container, but since the majority of prints are 5 or 6 reels I can see why they're doing it this way.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-23-2010 11:26 AM                    At least that would even out the load on the body carrying the prints up stairs on those 7 or more reels. I would hope but not guarantee that they would put four reels in one and three reels in the other.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 02-23-2010 12:58 PM                     New Deluxe boxes have the velcro strips, and it really helps keep the top flap shut, but kind of a pain to open when new. Eventually, the velcro will wear out and will have to be replaced, with as many times as the box gets opened and closed.  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-24-2010 09:49 PM                        I do not like getting entire prints in one box. They're not back-friendly. They're not finger-friendly either. Lifting the entire weight of a print by a thin bit of sturdy cardboard, cuts off circulation to the fingers in a hurry.  |  IP: Logged Matt Johnston Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Fort Myers, FL Registered: Oct 2009 posted 02-25-2010 05:08 PM                     If this is anything like the can (I mean box) that was sent out a few months ago, they also have side handles that have plastic inserts. From the two times I moved the box, I preferred it over the Deluxe version. Cans or boxes... doesn't matter to me too much either way. That's what the hand dolly is for.  |  IP: Logged Michael Voiland Expert Film Handler Posts: 219 From: Naperville, IL US Registered: Aug 2009 posted 02-25-2010 08:36 PM                     quote: "Joe Redifer " Do you actually say "meh" out loud? Yes. And since most of the films coming out are 7 reels or less one heavy box.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-25-2010 09:17 PM                     quote: Matt Johnston That's what the hand dolly is for. You must have an elevator or dumbwaiter then in your complex to go upstairs if you're that neutral about the whole thing. Some of us have major stairs to climb hauling them damned things up and down per week.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-26-2010 12:51 AM                        One way to eliminate the heaviness problem would be to make two trips. Take 3 reels out of the box, carry the box up. Come back for the other three reels. Sure, it's two trips but think of the exercise you're getting. quote: Matt Johnston If this is anything like the can (I mean box) that was sent out a few months ago, they also have side handles that have plastic inserts. They are replacing the side handles and plastic inserts with a top handle similar to the Deluxe box.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-26-2010 04:31 AM                        Check the fine print on your health insurance policy and be sure you are fully covered for HERNIA. We don't have and elevator in the big theatre. After two or three trips up 6 flights of stairs it didn't take me long to realize I better devise a better way of doing it or I was going to have to quite. I anchored a hefty size wince in a catwalk in the hang ceiling, its aircraft cable dropping thru a hole in the ceiling. I attached two caribiners to the end of the cable and devised a pully that routed the cable so it passed directly in front of the large followspot booth window. The winch hoists the cans up to the window and projectionist (very) carefully pulls them into the booth. Now I am going to have to figure out the best way to attach the damn box to the cable -- maybe I'll need to use one of those shipyard nets that enclose the box and gather at a single point where it can be hooked to one of the caribiners. I thought about doing that for the cans yeas ago when one of latches let loose and I looked down in horror as three reels flew out of the can hurling down 4 stories to the orchestra seats. That's quite an impressive sight, by the way. And for Joe's edification: Meh --an interjection, often an expression of apathy, indifference, or boredom. However, it can also be used to indicate agreement or disagreement. It can also be an adjective, meaning mediocre or boring. The word gained popularity as a result of its use on The Simpsons. It was used in a 1994 episode, "Sideshow Bob Roberts," when a librarian reacts to Lisa's surprise that voting records are not classified, and also in "Lisa's Wedding" after Marge weaves "Hi Bart" on a loom to try to pique his interest in weaving and he says "meh." Lisa, in the 2001 episode "Hungry, Hungry Homer", spells out the word for emphasis, after Homer tries to interest her and Bart into going to a theme park. As early as 1992, however, the word appeared on a fan discussion board about the TV series Melrose Place. The word's first mainstream print usage occurred in Canadian newspaper the Edmonton Sun in 2003: "Ryan Opray got voted off Survivor. Meh." There has been speculation that its origin is Yiddish because of its similarity to the interjection "feh". -- Wikopedia. Here in Brooklyn, anyone caught saying "Meh," gets nuggied. For saying it twice in a single post....a reeeealy big FAT nuggie and his briefs pulled up so high his voice goes up a register. -- Noogie: The act of putting someone in a headlock and vigorously rubbing one's nuckles to his/her head,usually followed by begging for mercy and cursing with laughter from others who may be watching. -- Urban Dictionary  |  IP: Logged

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