8mm Forum: A close encounter with... a bandsaw!

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Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on January 31, 2006, 05:21 PM:

I collect trailers (mainly horror/fantasy) and I finally got round to spooling a couple on 16mm that I obtained on cores a while back. When handling one - a trailer to 'The Sixth Sense' I suddenly noticed three jagged cuts, about 1mm wide, extending about half an inch from the edge of the core towards the centre. I was momentarily puzzled, then the awful truth hit me: right in my hand was evidence of man's appalling inhumanity to 16mm film - just as chilling as any moment in 'The Sixth Sense'! I quickly unspooled the start of trailer and was relieved to find that irrespective of whatever film had suffered this terrible fate, at least it wasn't my trailer.

[ January 31, 2006, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: Adrian Winchester ]

Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on January 31, 2006, 07:30 PM:

Egads! [Eek!]

Heavens to Murgatroid. [Eek!]

Beam me up Scottie. [Eek!]

Katy bar the door. [Eek!]

Thank Gawd it wasn't the film. [Smile]

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