Movies for TV - Early Television Foundation

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THE PROGRAM ANGLE
chocolate and coconut and . . . blow it through your nose for
sheer, deep-down smoking pleasure!" Somehow the sound tracks
had become mixed! No one had checked at the laboratory, and if
they had not been run through
before air time there would have
been two very disgruntled sponsors.
This illustrates the great care needed in dealing with film when
it is received from the library. Merely because the can says "Home
on the Range," and the leader also says it, is no indication that it is
"Home on the Range." The only way to be sure is to run it. Apart
from this aspect, that of film condition is important. It may have
been sent out without checking since the last user and may have a
number of breaks in it. It may be rewound the wrong way round
with the emulsion on the wrong side; it may
be sound film with a
double perforated leader and be rewound so that the sprocket holes
in the sound film are on the wrong side with the result that as soon
as the sound film commences there are no holes for the teeth to en-
gage, the bottom loop on the gate is lost, and there is, of course, no
sound either. Anyone of a number of things can be wrong with the
film, and running it without the precaution of checking
asking for trouble.
it first is