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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-05-2002 11:29 AM

Watch out for the "Enigma" trailer, which has at least two major flaws, as well as generally poor quality lab work.

First, the scope trailers have a flat MPAA ratings band and the flat trailers have a scope ratings band. (Actually, it appears that the film was shot in scope and that the scope version of the trailer was produced first--with the wrong ratings band--and then optically unsqueezed at the lab to produce the flat version).

Second, the last few feet of the title card at the end contain an odd buzz or tone during the fade-out. I personally left this intact (one of my pet peeves is theatres that are too lazy to find framelines on trailers and instead just cut in the middle of a fadeout), but it sounds really crappy.

Also, at the end of the trailer there is a printed-in line which appears to be a frameline reference, but is actually out of frame.

Grr.

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Jesse Skeen
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1517
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 04-05-2002 11:55 AM

There were a few Paramount trailers around 1999 that had some weird tone at the end; depending on what sort of mood I was in I'd either leave it in or cut it off.

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John Hawkinson
Film God

Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 04-05-2002 12:05 PM

Does anyone ever try applying a thin strip of opaque tape over the soundtrack for the length of the offending sound?
I guess I'd have reservations of it being too thick or not a good idea to run through the projector, but it might be tempting for cases like this... (using a film opaquer for more than a few frames would get old really fast)

--jhawk

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 04-05-2002 12:54 PM

Confirming...Enigma is Scope, apparently from anamorphic negative. While I'm at it: SR-D only.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 04-05-2002 05:19 PM

A scope trailer with a flat rating card? A flat trailer with a scope rating card? What phuggin morons!

Not only that, Enigma is the first release for a new arthouse distributor called Manhattan Pictures. You would expect them to get it right the first time.

If you get a trailer for Enigma just do what AMC does -- remove the rating card.

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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"

Posts: 4247
From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 04-05-2002 06:21 PM

if there's gonna be this much DRAMA i just won't run that trailer

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~Manny.

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