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Author Topic: Surprises With Used Kid Show Prints? Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 08-01-2009 12:19 PM                     We've been running another summer of free kid shows this year. Its almost over, now, so I've listed everything that I have aquired this summer attached to the prints that I have received: 50 feet of black leader 2-DTS tags 1-Dolby tag 1-30 foot length of Dolby test tone (I bet someone was pissed when that item went missing!) 2-No Smoking In This Theatre tags 1-nearly new threading leader Not to mention a whole show of trailers and other junk! I've only had issues with 2 of the kid show prints this summer, compared to last summer. I was going to get some new DTS tags... I dont need them now! Anybody else gotten any fun stuff?  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 08-01-2009 12:41 PM                     Last year I received a Flagship Cinema Policy trailer, not that I could use it. This year I haven't got anything.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-01-2009 12:59 PM                     Not so much with K.S., but with, since we are a discount house, regular features that have trailers and policy tags attached to the front...and the occasional surprise as what Bruce mentions...  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 08-03-2009 03:58 AM                     I once found a British ratings band on a kid's show print, Surfs Up if I recall correctly. I couldn't tell for the life of me what it was until I ran it while testing a gate I'd been working on. Unfortunately, I left it when I left my old theater.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-03-2009 08:47 AM                        The only surprise we got this year was how good shape they were in!  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-03-2009 10:46 AM                    biggest surprise I got on a kid show was last year when I opened up the box for Jimmy Neutron and found reels for Beowulf instead.  |  IP: Logged Matt Skilton Film Handler Posts: 43 From: Bromley, Kent, UK Registered: May 2009 posted 08-04-2009 11:41 AM                        We had a Kids Club film turn-up once without any heads or tails on the reels. Thankfully it was made-up in the correct order. We also had a new print of The Fast and the Furious and one of the reels was actually reel one of Race to Witch Mountain. That mistake very quickly prompted Universal to call us to apologize.  |  IP: Logged Michael McGovern Film Handler Posts: 57 From: New Britain, CT, USA Registered: May 2008 posted 08-04-2009 01:32 PM                    The only thing I ever see is the occasional old trailer from 2 or 3 years ago, and random DTS discs.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 08-08-2009 04:49 PM                     Our new print of Seven Pounds last year had discs of Seven Pounds, I Am Legend, and Dark Knight included. Thank goodness we dont do kid shows anymore.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 08-09-2009 11:14 PM                       My greatest surprise was building Happy Feet and when the last reel went on the label had my initials on it. It was my print from a year before!  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 08-10-2009 12:47 AM                     Tyler, I had the same thing happen with Kung-Fu Panda. I was putting it together and I was thinking, wow, this is in great shape and they used film-guard!... and when I got to the tail I saw my label on it. I also know it went to another local venue after I had it the first time too. Makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-10-2009 03:14 AM                     Moons ago when acetate film and wet splicing was the norm, I got a KS print that I ran 5 years before and the wet splices that I made were still intact-not cracked, chipped or separating.. -Monte  |  IP: Logged

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