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Author Topic: So, Anyone Else get The Dark Knight Crammed into Two Cans? Geena Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 198 From: Norcross, GA / USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 07-19-2008 10:38 PM                        Dear friggin' Deluxe depot: Did you think no one would notice that the label clearly says "7 Reels on 3?" Those plastic "cans" are only made to hold three reels, ya asshats (you're lucky they manged to fit a movie as long as The Dark Knight onto seven reels to begin with). If you have to precariously balance the DTS discs on top of the reels because there's no room in the cans, that MIGHT be a hint that you're not using enough cans.  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 07-20-2008 12:36 AM                     All 5 of our prints came this way. I hate these square cans with a passion, and our DTS discs were squished between the reels and trailers.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-20-2008 02:37 AM                     I like these containers. They're lighter & easier to handle and I don't have to worry about them tearing the shit out of my trunk when they shift around during transport.  |  IP: Logged Joop de Gruiter Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Lund, Sweden Registered: Jul 99 posted 07-20-2008 05:08 AM                     Could some one post a picture of the cans you are referring to?  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 07-20-2008 07:00 AM                        My print came in 4-reel plastic cans. No problem at all. Didn't even consider it an issue before seeing this thread. Your depot should have just used larger cans... How did they include trailers for you, if they were using 3-reel cans?  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 07-20-2008 09:29 AM                     Around here (Cincinnati Depot) they put the entire movie in one of those grey "Fox Boxes" and then put all the trailers and DTS disks in a small two reel can. Nothing was damaged, but that Box was HEAVY.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-20-2008 01:48 PM                        We got a standard old-fashioned package: Three-reel and four-reel cans for the feature, and a third can (two reel) with the DTS disks and all the trailers. The only hitch was, the four-reel can didn't show up with the other two. Fortunately a quick call to UPS got the matter resolved - they sent a special driver with the missing can (amazingly).  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 07-20-2008 01:58 PM                     Wow! The way you got your print really sux! Both my prints arrived in two well-worn 4 reel metal shipping cans. (two 4-reel cans for each print) from TES.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-21-2008 12:31 AM                     Surely not TES? --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-21-2008 05:17 AM                        Mine came in 2 four reel plastic "cans" (not the "Fox" boxes). I have no complaints about the shipping other than I hate those plastic "cans".  |  IP: Logged Geena Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 198 From: Norcross, GA / USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 07-23-2008 08:11 PM                        I love those plastic cans. But they're only meant to hold three reels (hint, hint, Deluxe!).  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-23-2008 08:57 PM                     Those plastic cans weren't the most favorite due to the awkwardness in handling such bulky contraptions, plus a pain to close due to the dbl hinge concept and to close that flap over then shove that plastic pin in. I'd rather do "foxboxes" than those POS's. (Ouch!! "DK" in a "FoxBox!" - one flipping heavy sucker there! Hoped your cinema had an elevator or dumbwaiter for such deliveries.) Yea, got two, three can prints of "DK" and figured that the two reel can was for discs and trailers. This is how the labs should make up their prints though: nice FULL reels. Just glad that TECH is smart enough to only do the classic can deliveries.  |  IP: Logged Geena Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 198 From: Norcross, GA / USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 07-24-2008 10:13 AM                        I have to admit, the main reason I like the plastic cans is the handles -- large, easy to grip and not prone to dig into your hands when the can is heavy. Also, there's less chance of the case for the DTS disk being dashed to smithereens if the deliverer transports the cans on their sides (as happens with every single Technicolor print DHL brings me ).  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-24-2008 12:52 PM                     quote: Geena Phillips and not prone to dig into your hands when the can is heavy. ....there is a trick in carrying can without having the handles of the can digging in that I've learned in the 35 plus years being a "film handler..: Wear gloves. No, actually, when gripping the handle, don't grab the handle all the down to the palm of the hand for this will definitely bust the hand up. Grip the handle in the 2nd bend of the fingers, for these fingers are acting like a hook to support that weight. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-24-2008 02:28 PM                     Monte quote: Monte L Fullmer Hoped your cinema had an elevator or dumbwaiter for such deliveries. Our booth is on the 4th floor and the "dumb waiter" was the doorman who was required in the union contract to carry the films up and down the stairs from outside the booth door. KEN  |  IP: Logged

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