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Author Topic: Dear Tech we dont need your help scratching prints. Chase Hanson Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 04-15-2005 03:25 PM                     Thats from the Depot kids...no previous return labels, no signs of being previously handled. I was friggin livid...  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-15-2005 04:28 PM                     Was this from Amityville Horror? And are you referring to the cuts along the edge on the right side of the picture, or a scratch somewhere amidst the "rain" in the image making it hard to see? What reel?  |  IP: Logged Jason Gazaille Film Handler Posts: 46 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-16-2005 12:51 AM                     I know Technicolor handles print deliveries for MGM, but aren't the prints manufactured by Deluxe? The leaders are identical to Sony's and the orientation of the reels is like that of Deluxe prints.  |  IP: Logged Chase Hanson Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 04-16-2005 04:48 AM                     Its Reel 5 of Amityville there are three parallel abrasions, The first and most visible one pretty much runs the length of the SDDS track. The second which is less visible runs from the SDDS track through the Dolby and barely into the analog. The third one which you can not see (in this picture) runs completely through a quarter of the frame. The image that I have posted is a drastically croped from the original to comply with the Upload requirements. If anyone wants a copy of the original...I can email it to you.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-16-2005 05:14 AM                     Interesting. I had to reject my reel 5 of Amityville because of some very weird looking marks (which appeared to be on the negative) on the projected-right hand side of the image. I wonder if we saw the same thing. (Email me the full rez pic please and I will verify.) I had no audio problems in SRD though. Also for clarification, that has nothing to do with Technicolor. Those prints were made by Deluxe. Technicolor only shipped the print to your theater. Still though, anybody can make a mistake here and there. Odds are a large batch of bad reel 5s went out.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-16-2005 09:49 PM                        Those diagonal scratches that come in from the edge along the right side may have been caused by the film riding up onto the flange of a roller.  |  IP: Logged

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