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Topic: West Side Story
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John Hawkinson
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Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-26-2002 09:23 PM
West Side Story
1961
35mm (65mm origination)
11 reels
Cinemascope
Dolby A ("Dolby Stereo")
MGM/UA------
Since this is a particularly nice print of an old film, it seems worth posting some details about this particular print. Brad, if you think this is wrong, please let me know and I'll move it to Yak. Swank print (so presumably only bookable through them)
Exchange: TES
Title #: 1006804
Print #: 00001
"10/5/2001 Vision Comp. Check Print"
Lab: Deluxe (Hollywood? End titles are not slashed)
Stock: Polyester (stock unclear; negative edgecode prints through)
Sound neg. date: 04/11/1989
Negative stock: 1989 datecode (X+triangle). Edgecode throughout is A54Xnnnnn (Kodak 5243?), but edgecode on leader is KV (5244/7244/2244).
30' leaders Print quality is very nice, but: Heads and tails are double-cut from lazy plattering  . Tails are double-cued from lazy changeover (IP lab cues are present, 18 frames before end; Clint Phare -style hand cues also present, generally a few frames away from or overlapping the lab cues. When we received it, china marker slashes were also present over the hand cued frames, but I've removed those). There are some thin base-side scratches present, esp. at the start of R1, and then sporadically throughout. While they unfortunately marr what would otherwise be an almost-perfect print, it is still "very good," especially given what you might expect for 40-year old title. --jhawk
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-28-2014 12:46 AM
70mm print #1009 screened by me at the Aero Theater, Santa Monica, on the evening of May 24, 2014.
Aspect ratio = 2.2:1
Audio = DTS
Distributor = Park Circus
TRT = 156 minutes including intermission music
12 shipping cases containing 11 reels. All except 6 are doubled-up As and Bs. 6A and 6B are on separate reels with an intermission at the end of 6A. The overture plays against an animation, but the walk-in music after the intermission is against black footage (around 2.5 minutes).
This is a polyester print on 2009 stock, in very good condition apart from some slight dirt and sparkle at the starts and ends where the print has been made up onto longer roll(s). The pattern of splices on the starts and ends is consistent with plattering. This print came with three sets of DTS discs - a 5.1 channel mix and a 6.0 channel (five stage channels plus one surround) one on two CDs, plus the six-channel mix on a single DVD-ROM for ingestion into an XD-10 or 11. All are on -R (consumer-burnt) media. I ingested the DVD and it went in without a problem.
Note: some of the reels (even the A+B combos) are pretty short (12-13 minutes), meaning that a changeover show is a bit of a hustle to rewind, clean and re-thread on some of them. Perfectly do-able if you're focused and organized, though.
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