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FOR MANAGERS AND OPERATORS 195
THEATRE MANAGER TO EMPLOY SUFFICIENT COMPETENT HELP IN THE OPERATING ROOM. FILM REPAIRING SHOULD NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BE LEFT TO USHERS, BOYS, OR TO ANY OTHER THAN THOROUGHLY COMPETENT, RESPONSIBLE HELP.
Injury to the film in passing through the modern 'motion picture mechanism is invariably due to either the bad condition of the film itself, or to the laziness, carelessness or lack of knowledge of the operator, or to the false economy of managers who refuse necessary repairs to the machine.
THE EXCHANGE MANAGER SEEMS, IN ALL TOO MANY CASES, NOT TO REALIZE THAT SENDING OUT A FILM IN BAD CONDITION IS NOT ONLY AN OUTRAGE AGAINST THE PRODUCER, AGAINST THE OPERATOR WHO MUST RUN IT, AGAINST THE THEATRE MANAGER WHO IS PAYING FOR FILMS IN GOOD REPAIR AND AGAINST THE AUDIENCE WHICH PAYS MONEY TO SEE AT LEAST A REASONABLY PERFECT PERFORMANCE, BUT IT IS A DIRECT INVITATION TO MORE AND GREATER DAMAGE, SINCE A LOOSE SPLICE IS LIKELY TO CATCH ON A SPROCKET IDLER AND SPLIT ANYWHERE FROM ONE TO THREE OR FOUR FEET OF FILM BEFORE THE TROUBLE IS NOTICED, ESPECIALLY IN HOUSES WHERE THE OPERATOR IS OBLIGED TO REWIND AND DO OTHER STUNTS WHILE HIS MACHINES
ARE RUNNING. Patches in which sprocket holes are not properly matched will climb the sprocket teeth, causing the loss of a loop, or will grip the teeth of the sprocket and wrap around it. Split sprocket holes will catch on an idler and a section of the edge of the film will be split off, if nothing worse.
Emulsion deposits on tension shoes (See General Instruction No. 10, Page 464) often does considerable damage to first run film.
Mending the Film, i. e., making patches in it, is a matter which is of the utmost importance. Badly made patches are the cause of unending annoyance, as well as immense damage to the film itself.
If the patch be made, in such manner that the sprocket holes do not match perfectly there is likely to be a jump of the picture on the, screen as the patch goes over the intermittent sprocket teeth, due to the fact that the hole is too small to allow the sprocket tooth seating properly therein. There is also the liability of (a) the hole locking on the upper sprocket tooth and, pulling the loop around under the sprocket, (b) The film running off the sprocket, (c) The intermittent sprocket climbing one or more holes, thus shortening one of the loops, making the other proportion