Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Sixty-four of Sixty-six

    9000 - FILM PROCESSING FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations that involve processing film; for example, operating motion picture developers and printers; cleaning, repairing, matching, cutting, splicing, and assembling films; and mixing developing solutions. The work does not include processing work that requires specialized subject-matter knowledge or artistic ability.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

9003 Film Assembling and Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in examining, cleaning, modifying, cutting, splicing, and assembling motion picture film, filmstrips, and film prints; deleting damaged sections, and repairing defects; joining, assembling, synchronizing, and preparing preprint motion picture film for printing; matching, cutting, splicing, and synchronizing negative film in picture and sound sequence to an edited work print of a completed motion picture production; etc. This work involves the operation of equipment such as automatic inspection machines, film cleaning machines, film splicers, rewinders, synchronizers, magnetic sound readers, moviolas, film coding machines, and/or film lacquering machines, and may involve the incidental operation of projectors and other similar viewing and/or sound equipment.

9004 Motion Picture Developing/Printing Machine Operating

This occupation includes jobs involved in the operation and operational maintenance of motion picture developing machines and/or printing machines.