Friday, February 9, 2007

Airport screening sucks

From Gannett News Service:
HONOLULU -- Film from ABC's hit show Lost was ruined when security employees at the Honolulu International Airport accidentally X-rayed the canisters despite warning labels asking them not to.

The show's crew had to reshoot the scenes because there were no copies.

"This is the first time anything like this has happened,'' said state Film Commissioner Donne Dawson, adding that steps have been taken to prevent a repeat of the incident.

The loss will not affect the broadcast schedule for the popular show, according to co-executive producer Jean Higgins. Higgins declined to say how much the gaffe cost ABC.

"That's proprietary information between us and the insurance company,'' she said. "We've already reshot. We are still on schedule.''

Lost reportedly spends $1.5 million to $2 million or more per episode with about 200 full- and part-time workers. Normally it takes about eight days to shoot an episode, so if one day's worth of film was destroyed, the cost could be close to $200,000.

The incidents occurred when the film canisters were mistakenly mixed with passenger luggage and then sent through an X-ray machine. The canisters were left unattended at X-ray machines along with other nonfilm cargo. The film apparently was then thrown in with piles of passenger luggage without regard for the warning labels indicating not to X-ray the sensitive contents within.

According to an informational Web site run by the film office, the mistake occurred following a new Transportation Security Administration cargo security directive that requires that all small cargo packages traveling on passenger planes be screened by air carriers via an explosive-detection system or explosive trace detection system.

Can't wait until the government tries telling big business that "freedom isn't free." All well and good when it's a few million air travelers, but don't mess with Disney.

TV content: nothing to worry about when you see overblown headlines on your Comcast home page or local paper.

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