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Author Topic: Wild Thornberrys (Missing Soundtrack) Jim Casterioto Film Handler Posts: 32 From: Wilmington, DE, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-20-2002 12:25 AM                        Hello All, Just wanted to let everyone know that my print of Wild Thornberrys is missing all soundtracks on reel #4. Not quite sure if any other theaters out there have similar problems, but just wanted to get the word out in case your print has not been screened. I am hoping that Paramount lives up to their word, and the replacement reel arrives first thing Friday morning. Jim  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-20-2002 12:48 AM                     That's a new one on me. Hope ours is all right. BTW, Paramount is usually very good in getting replacements out fast. I've never had a problem with them. Once we had a defective print arrive 6 am Friday morning. No one knew until 10 am when someone came to build it. Paramount had the replacement reel in by 3pm.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-20-2002 02:24 PM                        I played a print of Rock & Rule that had one reel with the image flipped left/right, the soundtrack was normal. Lettering was backwards and there was usually a black bar on the right side of the screen. Sometimes the animation continued into the "black bar" area.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-24-2002 05:51 AM                        Jeffry Johnson wrote: "I played a print of Rock & Rule that had one reel with the image flipped left/right, the soundtrack was normal. Lettering was backwards and there was usually a black bar on the right side of the screen. Sometimes the animation continued into the "black bar" area." That's a big "Oops" for the lab that made that print. It's likely the picture negative was "flipped" when threading the printer, giving a "mirror image" of the picture. The sound negative was printed correctly. Since the picture would have been printed through the base of the negative, there would also be some sharpness loss because of the diffusion of the image having to go through the negative base.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-24-2002 05:54 AM                        I suspect a print missing ALL the soundtracks somehow had the sound negative break during printing, or the printer was misthreaded. A print missing ONE of the soundtracks likely had one of the soundhead lamps go out, or was not contracted for that sound system.  |  IP: Logged Carl Palko Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Hazleton, PA, USA Registered: Dec 2002 posted 12-25-2002 04:55 PM                     Our soundtrack was fine on R4 of WT, but there was an odd problem that I havent seen before, but had heard of. There was about 1 foot of film after a lab splice that the sprocket holes were not punched right and caused the image to jump around on the sceen. Anyone else have that problem with this movie?  |  IP: Logged Aldo Baez Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 12-25-2002 11:00 PM                    The last ten minutes of reel 1 the picture is going in and out of blue. Right before the reel change it gets really dark blue and loses sound for aboue 5 seconds.... really wacky  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 12-26-2002 01:16 AM                        Sure sounds like a wonderful printing job on this one.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-26-2002 04:12 PM                        Aldo Baez wrote: "The last ten minutes of reel 1 the picture is going in and out of blue. Right before the reel change it gets really dark blue and loses sound for aboue 5 seconds.... really wacky" Sounds like another case of safelight fogging. Request a replacement reel.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-26-2002 04:17 PM                        Carl Palko wrote: "Our soundtrack was fine on R4 of WT, but there was an odd problem that I havent seen before, but had heard of. There was about 1 foot of film after a lab splice that the sprocket holes were not punched right and caused the image to jump around on the sceen. Anyone else have that problem with this movie?" Since the very ends of the roll can get crimped or damaged, the labs usually discard a few feet at the beginning and end of each roll of raw stock, which Kodak doesn't charge for as a "finishing allowance". Another possibility is that the perforations were damaged during splicing.  |  IP: Logged

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