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Topic: is it that hard to get a movie in frame?
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-28-1999 05:34 PM
Erika;I agree with you about girls in the booth. A lot of times you'll get a guy that knows how to hook up a V.C.R. and he thinks he knows everything. Girls don't make that assumption. Guys get all cocky. You COULD site a whole bunch of the traditional things people say why girls are better: Better manual dexterity and spacial ability. Girls are supposed to be better at math and stuff, too. Yeah, I know some people will start with a 'battle of the sexes' thing, here but that's not my point. Besiedes, having a booth full of just guys is boring. Ya' gotta' have someone else to talk to once in a while!
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-28-1999 11:26 PM
Aaron,When we started working at TT17, we all had to sign up for apprentice cards. The theatre coughed up to dough. (Approx. $15/person.) About 6 months later, we took the "test". -- It was STUPID!! Example Question: Q: Name two types of film transport. A: 1) Elevator and Dumbwaiter.
2) U.P.S. and Federal Express.
3) Small Car and Large Truck.
4) Platter and Reel-to-Reel. I think, in Pennslyvania, the license is a kind of a union ploy. -- You gotta' have a license to get a job but you gotta' have a job to get a license. (The above statement is not meant to be taken as either "for" or "against" unions.) The D.L.I. guy comes once or twice a year and checks licenses and that's about it. Only about 1/2 our 'guys' have actual licenses, 'cuz there are so many new people. They mostly all have apprentice cards. The only way they can 'legally' work is if somebody else in the bldg. has a full lic. At least informally, if you pass your lic. exam., you get a raise at your next job eval. I heartily agree with licensing of projectionists but the testing procedures, etc. have to be better. When other people ask me why licenses are required, I tell them this:
"Did you ever leave a movie theatre with a splitting headache? -- I't likely the projectionist's fault." (Yeah, I know it's weak but it makes my point.) Now, I just pay for my own lic. renewals because I work at other places than my orig. job. That way they can't hold that issue over my head. And you know managers always late sending in the renewals. This year I was the only one in the whole theatre with a valid license for about a month 'cuz I sent my own in instead of waiting for the mgt. to do it.
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