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Author Topic: Dark Water R3 has dark water stains! Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 07-08-2005 07:37 AM                     Last night when I screened Dark Water the entire third reel had a continuous running smudge (similar to a dark water or coffee stain) right down the center of the screen. It was even noticeable on dark scenes. Anyone else had similar problems.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-08-2005 07:58 AM                    We did not, but Technicolor actually called us to see if we had water damage to our print because they were getting a lot of reports of reels being wet and sticking together. Kinda ironic. I wonder if that adds to the experience of the film.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-08-2005 02:02 PM                     Only liquid on my print of DW is FilmGuard. However, each real drops out of DTS once for a couple seconds. Usually close to the beginning of the reel. What the hell?  |  IP: Logged Bernie Anderson Jr Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Woodbridge, New Jersey Registered: Apr 2000 posted 07-08-2005 07:50 PM                        Yeah, I got a reel one that was bad. As I wound through it, you can hear the pulling of the emulsion and before I could stop the table, the film shreaded. Gotta love Technicolor. 15 years in the business, that's the first time I've seen that come through a booth. Bernie  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-09-2005 08:41 AM                     quote "Usually close to the beginning of the reel. What the hell? " I am advised that is a symptom of not having the current firmware installed in your DTS  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-09-2005 02:27 PM                     Gordon, firmware is up to date. We've had no troubles with it prior except with defective reels and when the reels were replaced it functioned properly.  |  IP: Logged Dan Bouvier Film Handler Posts: 70 From: Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada Registered: Aug 2004 posted 07-09-2005 06:45 PM                     Rumour has it they used one type of film stock but set the machines for a different type and it wasn't given time to dry. The reels were then shipped wet, literally.  |  IP: Logged Jason Greek Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada Registered: May 2005 posted 07-11-2005 10:26 PM                     Yeah, our reel one, just the very beginning of it was wet... I played it for the first performance... and since our print was built up TWICE, I figured that if we had any wet reels, someone would have noticed it. I was wrong...  |  IP: Logged Dan Bouvier Film Handler Posts: 70 From: Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada Registered: Aug 2004 posted 07-12-2005 12:37 AM                     Since many depots are using snap reels, they don't really inspect the film at all anymore. If they were spinning them onto metal reels they would've caught it.  |  IP: Logged Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 07-13-2005 06:40 AM                     Technicolor must been aware as we got our replacement reel 1:30PM opening day.  |  IP: Logged

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