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Topic: Is there a place to recycle trailers?
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 06-09-2006 03:09 AM
Hi Mike .. You ought to see the mass of trailers (sometimes, 10 trailer rolls.) in the can from ETS and TECH that hit the first run houses..(!!!).
Where I now work in a discount theatre, I do, once in a while, get a used print that still have those unused trailers in the cans..
Also, when I used to do film deliveries from the theatres that I used to deliver from, to then, the good ol' National Film Service (whom was absorbed by ETS later on.) and ETS, in SLC..I used to see barrels upon barrels of used film that was destined to head head back to the labs..including the unused trailers..for recycling.
I also remember seeing the help, at these two depots, load up the cans with the prints and the assigned trailers for each of the print.
Lotsa film would be moving in these two depots.. just like the TECH depot - in which that Brad took of.
When I saw these picts that Brad took of TECH, it reminded me so much of National Film in SLC in the basic same form of operation..
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John Pytlak
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Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-09-2006 09:39 AM
First, see if any other theatres in your circuit/area need the trailers.
Second, use them yourself for practice film (teaching new projectionists) and as protective leader on the head and tail of plattered films. (Be sure to cue the automation so picture or sound from the trailers is not shown).
Third, return them to the film exchange for recycling. Many distributors have agreements for the film exchanges to send old film to Kodak FPC in Mountain City TN for recycling:
http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/corp/environment/FPC.pdf?id=0.1.4.5.4.16&lc=en
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Last year alone, FPC recycled enough motion picture print film to reach from planet earth to the moon approximately 2 ½ times.
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/film/details.html
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The Wolfman Report on the Photographic & Imaging Industry in the United States states that the average number of prints per original motion picture is 700. The Silver Institute, however, reports that 6,000 release prints are made for each feature movie. Interestingly, however, these copies are short-lived. 98 percent of all films for theatrical distribution made in the United States are destroyed by FPC, Inc.of Mountain City, Tennessee. After the films are no longer being shown in movie theaters, they are sent to FPC, which destroys10 million pounds of film every year. The film is shredded and sent to FPC's parent company, Kodak, where it is recycled and made into new film or fuel used in power plants. (Source: Associated Press)
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