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Author Topic: Disposable Split Reels? Rob Oakley Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Endicott, NY, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-30-2002 12:09 PM                     Have any of you had trouble with these cheap split reels that companys ship prints out on? We got a print of Not Another Teen Movie - and it was on these. One of them was broke - I had a wonderful time with just the core on the make up table - and they looked like they were made of the same plastic that plastic forks and spoons were made of. Anyone else have this problem?  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-30-2002 02:47 PM                     I am guessing your print came from Technicolor. Am I right? Most of us have horror stories with those reels. You should do some searching, search Technicolor or TES or broken reels. One of our film-techers had a horrible fight with one of those reels, and she put the pictures on the site to prove it.  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-30-2002 03:10 PM                        did anyone else notice that the new ones dont have shaft keys? Changeover houses are screwed. Josh  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 01-30-2002 04:57 PM                     Yes, it is a Technicolor print. Not Another Teen Movie came out via Sony. Rachel almost lost an eye because one of those Technicolor reels broke apart on her. Search the Film Handler's Forum for the thread that begins "Thank you Technicolor".  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-30-2002 05:02 PM                     Oh boy, I can't wait to get my hands on some of those keyless reels. I run changeover here, and if I do get some of those reels, I will enjoy having another excuse to call TES and complain, loudly!  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-30-2002 06:16 PM                     I have yet to see a reel without a keyway on it. But I've sure heard you guys complain a lot about them! ------------------ This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-30-2002 07:22 PM                        I had a few to deal with when we got Pulp Fiction 2 weeks ago. one of the reels came tails out, but luckily it wasnt one of the four keyless ones in the 3 can shipment. Could have sworn the last print we ran of Pulp was acetate and digital, this one was on mylar and SR only. really good print though. Josh  |  IP: Logged Bob Healey Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Milford, CT Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-30-2002 11:57 PM                     I couldn't run a movie straight of a TES reel, even if i trusted them to hold up - they just won't fit on the spindle. I've seen one keyless reel so far - on Shrek. Getting the film off was not a problem. Getting it back on was another story entirely. As for Pulp Fiction, I remember running it on acetate last year. Don't remeber if there was a digital track - I can't play them, so I don't look for them.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Gilardi Madam Moderator Posts: 2214 From: Peabody, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2007 posted 01-31-2002 03:51 AM                     Oh I love these flimzy piece of crap reels, they should keep making them worse and worse as they have been doing for years....(Technicolor doesn't seem to listen to suggestion, they seem to do the opposite, so maybe if we say they're doing good they will change...just maybe). Sorry Technicolor, your just not chipper quality! ------------------ "I'd like mornings better if they started later." -Garfield the Cat & Jim Davis ________________________ Brad, you're pretty darn Chipper yourself!!!  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-31-2002 10:24 AM                        Hey now, what did we say about using that word?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-31-2002 12:45 PM                        Josh, You are lucky getting all SR reels; when I ran PULP it some new TES concept -- their combo print --- half the reels Dolby A, the others SR.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-31-2002 08:50 PM                      |  IP: Logged Pat Moore Master Film Handler Posts: 363 Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-31-2002 09:01 PM                     Hi; Does anyone have one of these things they can send me? I don't know if it's something we can make but I'd like a look. Let me know... Pat  |  IP: Logged Rachel Gilardi Madam Moderator Posts: 2214 From: Peabody, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2007 posted 02-01-2002 12:04 AM                     Working for Strong, you've never seen a plastic split reel??? LUCKY!  |  IP: Logged Robert Golding Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Sutter, CA, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 02-01-2002 02:22 AM                     I agree these plastic reels are a real piece of s__t. I have received quite a few that haven't got the pin slot punched out. I must say that they all have them, you just have to punch them out. Once that is done every thing works till they start breaking apart, etc.  |  IP: Logged

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