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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-10-1999 11:23 PM
Ok, what the hell...Ms. Joan of Carbon Arc (Messenger) is TEN reels, but will fit on two 6000' reels!!! There are 2 reels in this that aren't even halfway full and actually NONE of them are very full at all! Who decides where the reels are cut? I haven't screened the film yet, so I can't say if it was cut in this manner for aesthetic reasons, but to put a movie that would've fit on 6 reels (7 REAL comfortably) on TEN...this is a bit extreme. As I understand it, this isn't in ANYONE's best interest. The studios get charged by the depot "by the reel". It seems like someone told me the junk heap charges by the reel as well. I'll bet the lab charges more if the print is on 10 instead of 6. Surely a 3 can shipment costs more than a 2 can shipment. The projectionists have almost double the work to do (whew, glad I have a platter)...and the print will suffer (in most theaters) NINE spots of excessive dirt and wear, instead of 5. So who's benefiting here? Anyone care to hazard a guess?
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Scott Ribbens
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Posts: 118
From: Los Angeles
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 11-12-1999 05:16 PM
That would be nice, but those people who break a film down like that just don't care enough to do it right, and they would still just find the wrong place to cut it at anyhow.I got a re-release print of Grease after the first couple of weeks that it came out, and some idiot did the fill a reel/cut fill a reel/cut thing, except they did not fill the reels, they just saw they went past the splice and cut the film. Upon building up the print I saw that they had even used opaque tape (white no less!). They wound up with, or I should say, I wound up with the opening credits/cartoon cut in half on reels #1 & 2. But enough of that, it is not the lab that decides where where the reel changes go, it is the people who make the film,(editor,director), who make that decision. ------------------
Scott
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