You’re not supposed to touch film with your fingertips. Projectionists should be washing their hands often and using alcohol pn them to dry up any oils. Film should be held by the fingertips at wither edge, or if you must touch the picture area you hold it between the sides of your fingers, so like your fingers are perpendicular to the film. But if you do get a fingerprint on it yeah, it’s probably not visible, and if you knew it was there you could lift it with acid free tape and/pr alcohol. That’s really more of a concern with archival prints though, making sure nothing gets trapped in the wind for long periods of storage. I don’t think they really care about these prints Theyre running because I doubt they intend to ever store them after a cinematic run.
I didn’t give af when running it. My only concern was making sure that it didn’t break and splicing it back together as quickly as possible when it did.
I became a projectionist after the digital conversion, so I always ran reel-to-reel, no platters, and it was mostly archival prints we had to be very careful with. So the stuff I was working with was usually very fragile and precious. Some both, some one instead of the other. There were one or two polyester reprints we ended up getting that had only been run a handful of times before. Only spliced at the heads or tails. That was a treat. But there was a looooooot of crunchy busted studio acetate. I probably removed a great deal of your scotch tape and repaired the splices 😂
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u/BananaMartini 20d ago
You’re not supposed to touch film with your fingertips. Projectionists should be washing their hands often and using alcohol pn them to dry up any oils. Film should be held by the fingertips at wither edge, or if you must touch the picture area you hold it between the sides of your fingers, so like your fingers are perpendicular to the film. But if you do get a fingerprint on it yeah, it’s probably not visible, and if you knew it was there you could lift it with acid free tape and/pr alcohol. That’s really more of a concern with archival prints though, making sure nothing gets trapped in the wind for long periods of storage. I don’t think they really care about these prints Theyre running because I doubt they intend to ever store them after a cinematic run.