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Stephen Iddon
Junior
Posts: 6
From: Preston
Registered: Mar 2010

posted March 24, 2010 12:33 PM

I am looking to purchase a feature film which is on 2 x 12ooft reels. I will require it breaking down into 3 x 800ft reels. Anyone recommend this.

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

Posts: 3085
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted March 24, 2010 02:01 PM

I don't see why not. Just find a suitable place in the narrative for the reel changes so as not to disrupt the flow too much.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 24, 2010 02:16 PM

I'm thinking the odds are pretty decent that this feature didn't start out this way, and if you are on the lookout you will find splices at either 400 or 600 foot intervals where the original reel breaks were.

If you break the film at the existing splices, either 3x800' or 4x600' will be easy to do.

800 foot breaks are more convenient to project, but 600 foot reels play on a greater variety of projectors than 800 footers do.

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