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Author Topic: Bad Printing Errors On "NINE" Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 12-24-2009 08:48 PM                     While making up my print of NINE today, I discovered that my Reel 4 was printed with the framlines one-half-perf off, so that it would have been out of frame on screen. The enitre reel was that way. It looks like the negative slipped in the printer. You can see the perfs from the negative along the non-soundtrack edge of the film. When I called Technicolor, I was told that they had had many similar complaints on assorted reels on other prints of NINE. They are hoping to get me a relpacemt reel later tonihgt. (There goes my Christmas eve, SGAIN@) So, if your pint of NINE goes partly out of frame tomoorw, you'll know why. . .  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 12-26-2009 10:14 AM                     I guess that I am lucky to be running a digital only copy of this film. I sure dont say that often.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 12-26-2009 07:49 PM                     Here's an actual picture (WoW!) of the mispinted reel. Asyou can ses, the frame lines are clearely not in the right place, If you look REALLY close, you can just ahout see the litte 'bumps' from the perfs on the negtive printed through betwwen the perfs on the print. It looks like the negative slipped 1/2 perf in the printer. I've heard of several theaters locally here on the west coast that got prints of this film with various reels printed this way. Based on lack or response or comments, I'm guesssing no one "here" was 'lucky' enough to get one.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-26-2009 09:29 PM                        My prints didn't have this error, at least that I know of. All looked fine when I built them. None looked out of frame when I walked by and that would definitely show.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-28-2009 09:50 AM                     The two Academy prints that I ran for Weinstein had no problems.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-28-2009 10:42 AM                        Ah, that's the 16mm frame line position. So how drunk were these lab techs at their Christmas parties that they thought they were setting up the printers for 16mm?  |  IP: Logged Greg Haas Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Buffalo, WY, USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-28-2009 11:54 AM                        I'm wondering if this is the same people who printed the Furry Vengeance trailer (flat) to one side of the frame? I'm not totally up on the printing process used but would a negative slipping cause this too? How can a negative slip sideways? Anybody else run the flat trailer for Furry Vengeance recently & see the same thing I did? Sorry this is *sort of* off topic... -g  |  IP: Logged

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