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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003

posted December 08, 2006 02:33 PM

I was talking to a fellow cameraman friend of mine yesterday who tells me that his son has a new job as the projectionist at a local multiplex.

He told me that a print of the new Bond movie had recently been destroyed by a burst water pipe (I suppose plumbers don't really worry about putting pipes above film platters [Roll Eyes]

) and that a replacement print had cost in the region of £70,000!!!

Can this be true? I wonder if his son had been including the cost of repairing equipment, etc.

Surely a new print can't cost THAT much?

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Stuart Fyvie
Film Handler

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From: Amersham
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 09, 2006 07:40 AM

Nahhh...35mm prints run to a couple of grand. They are churned out on high speed
printers at the labs (about a reel a minute).

Stuart

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Paul Spinks
Master Film Handler

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From: Barking, Essex, UK
Registered: Mar 2006

posted December 09, 2006 08:48 AM

When the reconstructed version of "Lawrence of Arabia" was released a few years back I heard that the Odeon Marble Arch needed a replacement print and that it cost somewhere in the region of £19,000. And it still had wet gate printing marks.

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Andreas Eggeling
Master Film Handler

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From: R.I.P.
Registered: Aug 2003

posted December 09, 2006 09:33 AM

No, not so much for 35mm prints ....

German labs offering prints of a small edition from about 2000,- EUR each print. Warner, UIP, Fox ...etc. let printing in UK (Rank, Technicolor) or Italy (Technicolor)for different european countries. ... they make thousands of prints from the same negativ and they change often only the optical soundtrack negative for different dubbed versions. So the printing costs are much less.

The printing time is not one reel per minute.

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Jose Artiles
Master Film Handler

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From: Spain
Registered: Oct 2005

posted December 09, 2006 01:55 PM

Dear Andreas,the cost of a new copy in spanish labororatory is 400-500 €, i work as a film restorer in a spanish film library and that the price the labs charge to me when i restored the negatives and need a work copy.
Kindest regards and long life to super 8!!!

Jose

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As Steven Spielberg says....
Nothing beats old school projection. Digital is just an imitation.

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