Photos from the Brad Miller collection.
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Here it is, the Technicolor facility in Wilmington Ohio!
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From the outside this place looks like an ordinary business ... |
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In fact it IS in a business park, but of course the surprisi... |
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Just outside the main entrance is the "Technicolor rock... |
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Are you ready to go inside? |
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Here is the customer service department. This one room with... |
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Another angle of the customer service department room. |
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Let's meet a few people. This is Tony Butcher, the man... |
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David Runk, manager of logistics and Robyn Long-Esmail, mana... |
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Stacey Downer, manager of inventory. |
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Sharon Benning, manager of customer service. |
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Brad Carroll, director of sales. |
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Lisa Ellers, manager of exhibitor relations. |
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Al Barilar, operations manager. |
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And here we are, one of the print storage warehouses. This ... |
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Here is more general storage. Notice how every row is numbe... |
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In one corner of the climate controlled storage are the inte... |
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One of the integrity check tables. |
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The next warehouse over has a couple of secure storage areas... |
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Another secure storage area. |
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In the main shipping warehouse you will see on the left a fe... |
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New prints from the lab are put on those assembly lines. |
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Al Barilar invites us to watch how the prints are assembled. |
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Each station is handled by two employees. Each one does 1 c... |
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...and they start mounting the cores of film onto clip toget... |
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Once all of the reels are assembled and accounted for, trail... |
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From there the cans ride down this assembly line. (There ar... |
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The supervisor station. |
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After a little time has passed, suddenly the area looks like... |
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Pictured here are the assembly lines for print returns. To ... |
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Another view of the print returns lines. |
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Staging area in the warehouse. |
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Several hours later that staging area looked like this. Tru... |
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A better view of the previous picture showing many skids of ... |
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Here is a shot of some reject reels awaiting destruction. |
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This is the storage area for Screen Services (rolling stock ... |
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Pictured here is the Screen Services fulfillment area. A wo... |
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This room is where Screen Services winds off the snipes. Th... |
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This is the tightwinder used to wind the snipes over to a &q... |
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But shipping prints is not all that TES does. Meet Joe Wade... |
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Joe oversees the "full" inspection team. In this ... |
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This part of the facility is used mainly for doing full insp... |
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This is part of the cell treatment machine, sometimes known ... |
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This is part of the rewashing process which pulls all dirt a... |
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This is the TES screening room. It is not meant to be an ac... |
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The projector for the screening room. |
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We close the tour with a HUGE thanks to Tim Burke, general m... |
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