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Author Topic: is this a dye track? Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-22-2003 11:06 PM                        This is from a trailer that I received last Thursday. I noticed the weird track, but didn't hear any sound quality issues on the booth monitor. This particular theatre has Simplex 5-Star soundheads with red LED reverse-scan readers. So, is it a dye track? If not, what happened here? LAD Girl's inquiring mind wants to know.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-23-2003 12:16 AM                    I believe it will be more closer to the color of the strip going down the left side of the sprocket holes. probably just a little darker but not much.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-23-2003 05:51 AM                        It looks like you may have a print with a cyan + magenta (= blue) track that was ACCIDENTLY not applicated. Likely it would play fine on a red LED reader, but will be very noisy on a white light reader, since there is no silver to modulate the infrared.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-23-2003 06:10 AM                     I don't like the gradation of density across the width of the track, unless it's an artifact of the scanning. looks like a bad track to me. Have you tried it on a white light system? Maybe on those old Western bases.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-24-2003 07:56 AM                        quote: LAD Girl's inquiring mind wants to know. I was in the studio when we shot the 800 feet of original color negative of "LAD Girl" in 1982, from which all the LAD Control Film for the last 20 years has been made. Looking at your clip, she actually DOES seem to be pondering the analog soundtrack.  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-25-2003 05:09 PM                     Is she single?  |  IP: Logged John Anastasio Master Film Handler Posts: 325 From: Trenton, NJ, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-25-2003 07:18 PM                        Just remember, Sam...that picture was made 20 years ago! But then, who's picky. I have a print that dates from the 1970s somewhere in my 16mm collection of odd junk that has a magenta track . It doesn't play worth a darn, of course. Why the heck would they have made one back then? And on 16mm?  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-26-2003 01:38 AM                     John: Did she move or blink during those 800 feet? Is there a chance one could build a "LAD Girl collection" of various different frames? Hmmm =TMP=  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-28-2003 04:13 PM                        I've lost track of the Kodak model who has probably been in more movies than any actress in history. She is probably a grandmother by now. The current LAD control film is made from a digital file of one of the best (non-blinking) frames we could find in the original negative. When it was all duplicated photographically, it was a real movie with "blinking" frames (and maybe even a yawn or two ). Today, every frame is the same.  |  IP: Logged

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