this was the scene of the crime in our book it's murder same old story to begin with victim young good looking wanted to get on television at everything it takes for a great career place along the lying got mixed up with the wrong guy you know wound up that we don't know who did it or how and what we're trying to find out about the body pretty beat up mutilated pretty bad to believe anybody do a thing like that but if you've got a strong stomach alive and healthy a month ago now she's dead couldn't get her through a projector if you could nobody could stand to look  or and there's smith he's a film distributor he sent the print to the station why would i do anything to hurt her i loved her and brown the film director at the station i know you're trying to make me the guy it will work she was with me a lot sure but i was taking care over and harris projectionist at the station i only had that print long enough to threat or up i couldn't have done or any harm  somebody did somebody murder my job find out who would question the suspects got their stories first this man jones from phil number tori what do you pick on me far i never heard that you figure that i know the kind of treatment film gets air that's my business protecting film turning out perfect france why ask me all these questions just routine well i've got nothing to hide i'll tell you how it was that here is where she came from first i saw her she was coming off as processing machine brand new and perfect and we kept her that way to tell well we've figured out what's the biggest danger to fil dirt alright look around no dirt in here even the air is filtered not a chance for any dust or dirt or stuff to get tour go on another thing before she ever left the machine before i ever touched yeah we make it up ourselves about a tenth of a gram of hercules be sixteen cents but he quacks two hundred grams of solvent applied here dries almost instantly what's the idea of protection against crashes abrasion keeps the film from sticking on a projector gate for instance you ever hear of people having trouble with green prince green print yeah that's a print that hasn't been lubricated that brushy mountain gelatin is always a little tacky sticky unless you lubricate that surface the first few times you try to projected you're going to have trouble you get sticking little tiny particles of that soft emotion come up and pile up in the gate result is generally picture not steady that right another thing where that soft emulsion piles up dirt gets man it drags against the film and you get abrasion shells like what happened to this print no couldn't have because like i said her off that's all yeah so if i did all that took all that care how could i have heard or wondered if you did all that next guy we talked to was smith works for this film distribution outfit is story it was sure i remember she came to us from the lab on a cooler we inspected her while rewinding onto a real careful where you sure brand her she was still in a one condition that was one morning when i got out of the rack for timing and inspection all in the sign this film a fire hazard was there all no it's all safety film the point of no smoking is it helps keep the place clean that's the first rule in handling film don't let dirt and stuff get to it so they tell me you can see for yourself how clean we keep it around here there's no windows to let dirt and grime in from the outside tables nothing anonyma except what we need to work with no chance for dirt or abrasive material to get to our film this is the way it always is show our films our business you know how much it costs us when a print get scratched up and has to be junked plenty plenty is right that's why i keep my place looking like this you never catch me doing like some people let my table turn into a junk pile that's murder on film but i got more sense than that i'll tell you some film what sir whenever a film is being handled mood other words wound and rewound it builds up static electricity it gets just like a magnet it attracts particles of dirt stuff from the air cigarette dirt on the table at stuff gets ground into the film and you've got scratches but about this murder you took this print to your table for timing and inspection meaning what well to measure the footage first using this counter but that can hurt film providing you don't put it through too fast did you know took it slow thing is while i was timing or i was checking for any damage any abrasions or scratches h how do i check helders all the light reflects off the film any scratches i'd see him did you see any know what i should check for in these places in the print if there had been any bad will side to repair them but there weren't look for any damage to the perforations in the torn ones they were all ok anything else yeah i made sure that the last station had left in the commercials in the film and i checked for improper cue marks you know the little marks we put it certain points in the film two words signal the director are projectionist when the switch over or when the film is about over or when to bring in a commercial you know i get you the reason i checked that well you should see some of the films we get back rather the q marks these jokers all think they've got to have their own special cue mark set their own special places and make them good and big so they can't miss them looks no like i say she was in beautiful shape sure that sure anything wrong i reported it but there wasn't a condition a one no scratches no perforation damage everything if you were gloves always don't catch me getting fingerprints on any don't clean gloves yeah clean gloves change them every day maybe oftener look i know what you're getting that gloves pick up dirt particles while you work run film over the cloth and it acts just like sandpaper only thing is i didn't do that my gloves were clean and i didn't drag the film over the dry cloth i held it by the edges like always still then what well after inspection we rewound her and cleaned her at the same time cleaned her hell with wax and some of the same thing they use in the labs lubricant as it yeah any time you clean film you ought to use a lubricant to do it just makes sense to give it that protection this machine it's safe sure they'll run through these clips of rain on plush so lucian grips on the material keeps it moist the precious change so no dirt gets a chance to pile up and scratch the film takes up on a real home that's it no use to say that i couldn't have hurt that print she went right into the can and the shipping case and left here like i say condition a one i swear it anything that happened to or later i had nothing to do with it i pass yeah i see what pass and the book that followed the thing a little farther talk to this man brown film director at the t station in admitting it had a lot to do with the victim and their truly did i'm responsible for all of them here at the station our own prints than the ones we lease or rent i make up the programs so that the film's time doesn't cleaned but in commercial those make repairs all that but i didn't hurt that film what did you do to her well the day she came in i got her out of the rack to take her in for time human spectrum sciences no smoking i didn't smoke weed or allow smoking where film is being handled because i know that one took her in butter on the table and started timing table pretty jane yeah clean sure look at it the time i know what dirt does the film we're careful any place where handling film is clean air conditioned and that's all we do there just and the film don't get touchy you project this print no why that why i haven't got time to project all the film we get in here hundreds of the today some stuff by project sure if there's a question about it but not this one  i don't think you're not sure you know but if i had that wouldn't of heard or you can see our preview projectors in real good shape why we clean the gate every other day i know what a dirty projector can do to film and i know what happens if you don't try to project your right soul so i'm careful about threading every time but like i say this brand i didn't project all i did was time mearns spectrum and but in the commercials take it a step at a time well what i did was run her through the footage counter at a good safe speed do some guys pull him through so fast they scream that's not me i've seen  ed made a real thorough check and cleaned it so there was no reason to think anything was wrong he claims there was nothing wrong with it ok well i couldn't avert it either then what you do splice then the commercials like i always do listen i know how to make a splice mr you can watch me anytime right by the book but the film in carefully don't jam it on the then the cement put it on closer up give it ten or fifteen seconds to dry well and i've got a perfect splice but that's how i always do it and i keep my spicer adjusted too so use machine oh no we clean that by hand we run it through soft cotton pads moistened with cleaning fluid i say clean we keep changing the claw so dirt cam pile up and scratch know and i was careful there to first place my rewinds are lined up perfectly no way the film can greg against the sides and then i kept the constant tension on the film i'm not one of these wise guys when it comes to rewind and film wise guys yeah you've seen them showing off building up speed then then calls them letting the film drag over the table so it gets retched cranking it through with a jerk emotion so you won't get a and none of that stuff for me steady speed constant tension when i rewind you know something else i've seen guys do a sloppy job so the film's loose on the real gig on the end of the film till it's fight worst thing you can do any dirt particles on the film just get grounded along against the emotion and the grooves thing which marks you've seen them look like this all i did i didn't hurt but print you can't prove i did i'm innocent so help me funny thing if you're going to send why would you want to help this was one more suspect harris projectionist at the t v station had an answer to everything oh i grant you a film can get ruined in a projection it happens but not of the film is in good shape in the projector is working right now the screen only way i can do that is to keep that projected clean if i the gate gets dirty and the picture starts jumping around like this take the gate every chance i get i pull it out and clean it especially along these rails let emotion or dirt pile up here and it's liable to scratch the film particularly on the soundtrack area then you've got and that isn't all i checked every film contact point made sure the rowers were all really rolen not stuck so the film was dragon over on now that could happen did it no i told you i checked it part of my normal maintenance like checking the sound system all the time clean all the film contact points to make sure we get the best sound quality and also make sure the film doesn't get scratched when it goes over the drum main thing with the projector is to keep it clean and lubricated right then it will never damage fill not of the film's ok to begin with about threading well what about it listen i know my job i thread that projector fifty times a day and i do it right as can about it that tell you or you can watch me your sound and it thing goes wrong during projection it's because there are bad splices in the print or torn perforations or dirt on the film i take care of this projector and i thread it up the right way now that's all i can do i projected that print and i put her in the rack that's the last i saw her not quite what do you mean you see here now soul there it's a murder that everybody says could have happened we don't know did it all we know is this if all the suspects had treated the victim like they say they did she'd be alive today only she's not somebody who's guilty maybe all of them together but if they stick to their stories we're stuck with a perfect crime it happens more than you think for you we figure innocent this case you can go just one thing you want to stay in the clear and get this straight every time you handle film better figure it's a matter of life or death because ideas get a little careless and we may be after you for murder on the screen