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Author Topic: New TES Reels James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-14-2003 01:53 PM                     Our prints of OPEN RANGE came on these. Same design as the translucent reels, only made with better material this time around.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-14-2003 02:15 PM                     I'm surprised that make is still being produced. They are not backwards compatible with the older style cores and more often than not they are clipped together so that the drive hole is not lined up with the drive hole in the core. Plus these fall apart worse than any of the other reels.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-14-2003 03:29 PM                    But they're better than the ones made of recycled horse dung Costner was insisting on.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-15-2003 09:29 AM                     I got 'um, too. The bright orange color nearly blinded me when I opened the cans!  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-15-2003 09:34 AM                    Why don't they just go back to making one piece plastic reels? Oh wait that means integrity checkers would have to work for a change. What the hell was I thinking!  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-15-2003 10:27 AM                    So that film shipped on cores can be placed directly on reels without the need to wind it on to them. (I know you know that but newcomers may not.) Hey, if the industry is soooooo concerned about the environment that we are willing to sacrifice the quality of our analog soundtracks then why don't they make a concerted effort to finally retire those old heavy metal shipping cases, the ones that weigh empty almost as much as the newer ones weigh full. How much energy is being wasted hauling those nitrate-era cases around?  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-15-2003 10:30 AM                     As Brad stated: If they would turn the core about 180 degrees, it would line up.  |  IP: Logged John Spooner Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: South Australia, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 08-15-2003 01:55 PM                     As I stated, along with several fellow Aussie colleagues, you blokes are too spoilt receiving prints on good spools. Here in Oz our prints come in flimsy cardboard boxes which fall apart, no spools just cores. And to top it off, film exchange personnel who certainly don`t care. JohnSpooner.  |  IP: Logged

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