Not only does it look like it's been run through by a belt sander but it looks like the inside of the can has rusted out. 3 of the 5 reels have brown/rust colored dust all over them. I'm hesitant to even run the thing through my projector!

I know better than to call for a new print because every time I have, in the past, the replacement print is just as bad. We got Tango replaced and there was 1/2 a reel missing from it. I ended up doing a mix & match job to get a usable print.

Well, I'm going to clean the reels off as well as I can before I even start, then I'm going to FG the shit out of it, one reel at a time. (I exagerate a bit, but you get the idea. ) I have a Potts horizontal table, so I guess I'm going to have to hold the cleaner in position by hand. I don't have a bracket for the MUT.

1) Any further suggestions besides calling N.Y. films and getting a partial refund?

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Until then, I guess I'd better go upstairs and get to work!

PS: Any tips on how much FG is 'too much'? Is it okay to FG it once during build up and the first screening then do it all over again on the second screening? (Customers won't see it until at least the 3rd run-through.)

By the time the audience sees this movie I will have run it through the cleaner at least twice, maybe three times. The 'money show' will be the fourth.

The thing that had me spooked was mostly that it looked like rust from the inside of the film cans. I was worried that if it really was rust, that would mean the film could have been in contact with water, too. That doesn't appear to be the case. I think some doofus at the depot (or at one of the places that had the print last) dropped those reels in the dirt, or something like that. The inside of the cans don't look rusty.

As far as the rest of the print goes, it looks like your average, run-of-the-mill print that's been beat to hell.

Somebody ought to be paying me for fixing up their crappy prints!

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