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202 MOTION PICTURE HANDBOOK
DETECTED BY ANY SUCH WHIRLWIND INSPECTION. It is a known
fact, and a most reprehensible practice, too, that exchange managers will often ship reels out to exhibitors without any inspection at all. This practice is often aggravated by the exhibitor, who, when in a hurry for reels, demands that they be given him without waiting for any inspection at all. It is also a fact that exhibitors who do this will frequently upbraid the exchange if the films are in bad condition, and will blame the operator if breaks occur and the show is stopped. When a film leaves the exchange in anything but the best possible condition a wrong is done to everybody concerned, from the producer to the theatre audience. The result of faulty exchange inspection is, so far as the operator be concerned, one of two things: either it falls to him to do a lot of work which is no part of his duty and for which he is not paid, inspecting the films and putting them into condition, or, as an alternative, the projection, and incidentally his reputation as an operator will suffer.
I am well aware that the question of inspection and repair presents a problem of many angles, and one not at all easy to adjust. However, this I can say without fear of successful contradiction: there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for the utterly miserable condition in which many films are received by the operator.
/ am heartily in favor of operators demanding overtime for inspecting and repairing film when they are received in bad condition. It most emphatically is NOT a part of their duty, and by what process of reasoning a theatre manager justifies his demand that his operator, without any remuneration whatever, do the work of an exchange inspector, I have never been able to understand.
There is now on the market a film-fault detector, the invention of one Rosenfeld, through which a film may be run at tolerably high speed, and which will automatically detect all loose, wide or stiff patches, mis-frames, and other mechanical defects. This machine also has an appliance for making a patch, which joins the film properly, and insures a splice of uniform width from which the emulsion has been entirely scraped. It also at the same time cleans the film by passing it through a bath of chemicals and washing it with brushes. With such a device in existence there is no longer any excuse whatever for the mechanical faults found, in greater or less amount, in nine out of ten films sent out by the average exchange.
There is now on the market a neat little cutting plier with which broken sprocket holes may be notched as per Fig. 76.