thanks for replying Satsuki,
It was a local bar here in las vegas, pretty average in size, so the area wasn't too large. and it was low key. I don't have the dailies in my possession but I will try to get some still frames to look at. I see what you're saying about the different shots possibly needing different exposures. but sometimes in a wide the shot has plenty of exposure, and in a tighter shot from the same angle it is way under.
I'm pretty sure that the manual shutter never moved, but you're right, at the time I wasn't aware that the bolex wasn't 180 shutter and i didn't know about the prism. that'll teach me to do some research next time. but for the cross processing, the director decided that he didn't like the look and I didn't get to do it anyway. so that wasn't it--i was just trying to justify why I would ever shoot on reversal for something like this. It was a bad move.
if i can get some stills I'll let you know,
thanks again