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Frank Angel
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Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-05-2010 06:24 PM
Not so much weird as just ancient; the old ways evidently don't die easily in India. That lab must be still numbering them the old fashion way -- 1000ft reels incriments. Hey, we started it in the early days of silents and 1000ft lab capacity. When we got it together and started shipping on 2000ft reels, it became the 1A & 1B thing. So if that particular Indian lab was still numbering them the 1000ft way, reel 19 would mean you had 9 and a half 2000ft reels. Pretty long movie, was it? Must have been all those musical numbers in it I'll bet. They don't know from editing over there.
If you ever play old silents or even many early 30s titles that haven't been re-edited but just printed from original elements,, you will see consecutive reals numbered 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. Of course usually by the time you get it, a brother projectionist would have numbered them 1, 2, 3, 4, etc, but you can still see the original numbers on the leaders & tails.
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