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I was taught by and old-school union guy to always ship films out tails-up. That way, the next brother can inspect each reel as he loads it onto his house reels, leaving them heads-up for the show.

This applies to platters, too, if you load it onto 6000' ft. reels as you inspect it, (3-2-1) and load the first reel onto the platter while inspecting 6-5-4.

It seems a lot of undisciplined folks tear down straight off the platter, leaving the film heads-up (and, by the way, not taking off their cues, etc.).

Of course, I'm preaching to the choir here.

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Of course, stuck in the dark ages with EPRAD Simple-Swords, I can build up and tear down whichever way it comes and inspect in on the built-in make-up table.

I like doing that because we can run the arc's at 6.5K instead of 4K because the carbons burn up faster at the higher wattage. When running 20min reels, this isn't a problem because we can change them out after 40 minutes. We've got to lower the wattage in order to make them last for an hour, like when we get a feature in that's going to stay with us a while, it's built up.

When we build up a print, Tails out is better though because like previously mentioned, it can be inspected as it goes onto the 6K reel. Most of the prints we recieve are heads out. This is good if we get a print in late, then it's just a matter of throwing it up on the projector, and running it!

And regarding those crappy reels Tech sends: From now on, when I break down a print and the reel is busted/cracked/etc., I wind that reel's film onto a core, then place the can with the broken reel out for them. I made a note (made 30 copies) that says; reel broke, blah, blah, would damage film so I didn't use it, but here it is, so you know I didn't steal it, etc. I don't mean to make life hard for the next guy, but someone (at Tech) has to get the message.

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