The dangers of drinking and splicing

[Dave Bickford]

Kind of embarrassing, but also funny, so here we go. It’s my so-called “weekend” so I enjoyed some (excessive) “adult beverages” last night. I wanted to watch a recent film I purchased but I felt the need to clean it first. Wound it up on the rewinds and proceeded to clean only to find a broken splice. OK…no big deal. Or so I thought. I don’t recall the details, but after 10 or 20 minutes of trying to do a simple tape splice, I gave up and put everything away.

Fast-forward to this morning. Now sober, I retrieved the film (still on the rewind unit). One reel was wound over. The other reel wound under. WTF? Also found several small film cuttings from the splicer under my coffee table, so apparently several editing attempts were made. I recall attempting to use the 50+ year old Kodak press tapes that came with my splicer. Found the new press tapes and finished the simple splice in just minutes this morning.

Afraid to run this through my projector tonight. 😂

(probably the Elmo ST100…maybe a Sankyo)

[Brian Fretwell]

Well, at least it wasn't the effect of the fumes from splicing cement affecting you.

[Dave Bickford]

Ran it through my Sankyo 762 this afternoon. Didn’t even notice the ill-fated splice from last night (this morning)! I’m that good even when s***faced! 😂

[Graham Ritchie]

Just as well it wasn't cement you were using

[Lee Mannering]

Guess we've all done daft things.
only last week was spooling up my new S8 trailers from beloved Reel Image and was setting out to include a Interval dayset at the end.
The blu-ray disc duplicators fired out 50 discs so I loaded the next lot for work then back to the S8 compiling.

All done I finished work and sat down to watch my efforts. I'd only gone and put a Interval dayset in the middle of a 200ft reel.
Silly owd me.

[Tony Kelly]

its simple dont drink and splice lol