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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-05-2011 07:54 AM
It is true, you can't save everything, and of course you there are films that tank or that you hate and you know you will never book them again. But for the really good stuff, yes, store them with great care. And yes, tubes take up alot more space than you ever would imagine. Not to mention how they refuse to stay where you put them.
I finally found a storage system that is perfect for posters and a lot more convenient that the damn rolling tubes. It takes up very little floor space and holds over 800 posters! Just picture what 800 tubes will look like, not to mention tubes themselves are heavy.
This system keeps the posters flat -- no unwieldy curl later on when you need to use them, unlike the tubes -- a great advantage. It's all high quality cardboard so it is a very cheap way of protecting hundreds of posters. It holds 24 of the flats. We use a database to keep track of what posters are in what flats -- everything is numberd and with places you can write what you've put in them, so even without the computer database, you can find stuff pretty easily.
We store trailers -- again, only the ones we think there is a possibility that we will run again -- on 2000ft reels. We wind them attached together with a big strip of white artist tape (both sides). The tape makes it ease to see the joins and easy to separate when you need to extract one. The contents if the trailer library is tracked with a database making it easy to to find what you are looking for down the road. Pulling a trailer is then just a matter of pulling the correct numbered reel and counting the white strips as each trailer runs by on the rewind.
Trials and tribulations of the art house crowd!
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Tony L. Hernandez
Expert Film Handler
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From: Windsor, CO, USA
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 08-25-2011 07:11 PM
I was always taught that you had to hang onto a poster or trailer for 7 (maybe 9?) years before you could sell it/give it away. After that time, you can sell it without any risk of trouble from the film companies. Of course you could sell them before that, with some small risk of repercussions. This may be completely bogus but it is what I was taught by several long-time exhibitors. Has anyone else heard of this?
I try to keep most posters in my vault in case we ever decide to run them again. The same goes with trailers. I never did hoard too many of my theater's surplus posters at home, however, as I never had a soft spot in my heart for them; ever since I was a child, I always hated the chore of hanging them and dicking around with them so there was never a desire to have them in my home. I have, however, hoarded a number of surplus trailers.
As for the used trailers we keep in our vault, believe it or not, I usually splice the heads and tails back on and rewind them on their little "core" the same was they came to me. Odd habit, I know, but that's just how I do things. If you have enough spare reels (or even cores, perhaps), I know a lot of operators do the same thing that Frank mentioned...splice them together on reels.
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