Photos from the Brad Miller collection.
![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes01.jpg) 96 KB · 625x469 Here it is, the Technicolor facility in Wilmington Ohio!
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| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes02.jpg) 88 KB · 625x469 From the outside this place looks like an ordinary business ... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes03.jpg) 85 KB · 625x469 In fact it IS in a business park, but of course the surprisi... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes04.jpg) 127 KB · 625x469 Just outside the main entrance is the "Technicolor rock... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes05.jpg) 102 KB · 625x469 Are you ready to go inside? |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes06.jpg) 77 KB · 625x469 Here is the customer service department. This one room with... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes07.jpg) 71 KB · 625x469 Another angle of the customer service department room. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes08.jpg) 87 KB · 625x469 Let's meet a few people. This is Tony Butcher, the man... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes09.jpg) 77 KB · 625x469 David Runk, manager of logistics and Robyn Long-Esmail, mana... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes10.jpg) 63 KB · 625x469 Stacey Downer, manager of inventory. |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes11.jpg) 76 KB · 625x469 Sharon Benning, manager of customer service. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes12.jpg) 73 KB · 625x469 Brad Carroll, director of sales. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes13.jpg) 72 KB · 625x469 Lisa Ellers, manager of exhibitor relations. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes14.jpg) 97 KB · 625x469 Al Barilar, operations manager. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes15.jpg) 117 KB · 625x469 And here we are, one of the print storage warehouses. This ... |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes16.jpg) 115 KB · 625x469 Here is more general storage. Notice how every row is numbe... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes17.jpg) 95 KB · 625x469 In one corner of the climate controlled storage are the inte... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes18.jpg) 88 KB · 625x469 One of the integrity check tables. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes19.jpg) 103 KB · 625x469 The next warehouse over has a couple of secure storage areas... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes20.jpg) 121 KB · 625x469 Another secure storage area. |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes21.jpg) 111 KB · 625x469 In the main shipping warehouse you will see on the left a fe... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes22.jpg) 99 KB · 625x469 New prints from the lab are put on those assembly lines. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes23.jpg) 106 KB · 625x469 Al Barilar invites us to watch how the prints are assembled. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes24.jpg) 102 KB · 625x469 Each station is handled by two employees. Each one does 1 c... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes25.jpg) 88 KB · 625x469 ...and they start mounting the cores of film onto clip toget... |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes26.jpg) 89 KB · 625x469 Once all of the reels are assembled and accounted for, trail... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes27.jpg) 83 KB · 625x469 From there the cans ride down this assembly line. (There ar... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes28.jpg) 104 KB · 625x469 The supervisor station. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes29.jpg) 129 KB · 625x469 After a little time has passed, suddenly the area looks like... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes30.jpg) 125 KB · 625x469 Pictured here are the assembly lines for print returns. To ... |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes31.jpg) 122 KB · 625x469 Another view of the print returns lines. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes32.jpg) 96 KB · 625x469 Staging area in the warehouse. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes33.jpg) 94 KB · 625x469 Several hours later that staging area looked like this. Tru... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes34.jpg) 117 KB · 625x469 A better view of the previous picture showing many skids of ... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes35.jpg) 87 KB · 353x470 Here is a shot of some reject reels awaiting destruction. |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes36.jpg) 106 KB · 625x469 This is the storage area for Screen Services (rolling stock ... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes37.jpg) 120 KB · 625x469 Pictured here is the Screen Services fulfillment area. A wo... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes38.jpg) 66 KB · 625x469 This room is where Screen Services winds off the snipes. Th... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes39.jpg) 65 KB · 625x469 This is the tightwinder used to wind the snipes over to a &q... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes40.jpg) 76 KB · 625x469 But shipping prints is not all that TES does. Meet Joe Wade... |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes41.jpg) 67 KB · 625x469 Joe oversees the "full" inspection team. In this ... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes42.jpg) 60 KB · 625x469 This part of the facility is used mainly for doing full insp... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes43.jpg) 74 KB · 625x469 This is part of the cell treatment machine, sometimes known ... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes44.jpg) 54 KB · 353x470 This is part of the rewashing process which pulls all dirt a... |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes45.jpg) 50 KB · 625x469 This is the TES screening room. It is not meant to be an ac... |
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![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes46.jpg) 46 KB · 353x470 The projector for the screening room. |
| ![](pics/tes/thumbnails/tes47.jpg) 76 KB · 353x470 We close the tour with a HUGE thanks to Tim Burke, general m... |
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