End band

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In the cinema industry , an end tape is a piece of film strip of variable length that is intended to protect the actual film part of a film copy (with the image and sound information) and, in the case of a projection, prevents white light from being projected onto the screen after the end of the file , especially in (semi-) automatic demonstration mode . The end band (lead out) is the counterpart to the start band (lead in), both usually have an additional color stripe - to prevent confusion - which has an identical identification color for each act; this is applied over the entire surface at the start and in stripes at the end.

The quantity of the end tapes varies from 50 cm short black tapes to meter-long film tapes (especially for copies fresh from the laboratory). Apart from a clear image line, there should ideally be no image information on the end tapes , including scratches and other damage. In addition, the soundtrack should not contain any sound information other than the original sound of the film (one second for the fade) and should not show any other damage.