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Topic: The first movie you ran on your own was...?
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Rich Ferrando
Film Handler
Posts: 64
From: Royal Oak, MI
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 10-02-2004 08:09 PM
Alas, also being new, the first film I built and projected all on my lonesome - "Donnie Darko." Not the original release, it was for a midnight showing last summer. Only one bad splice in the trailers.
Century JJ projector, Xetron "Big Blue Boat Anchor" lamphouse, Strong platters, Dolby CP200, weird mixture of EV and "ripped off from home stereo system" speakers (really- they have woodgrain side panels), and I forget what the power supply is called. Big sucker- weighs half a ton, about the size of the lamphouse, amperage turned up or down by way of big steering wheel on top that drives a magnet through a big coil inside... I remember how it works, just not what the damn thing is called. I call her Vivian.
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Robert DeLoss Marken
Film Handler
Posts: 11
From: stockbridge, ga, usa
Registered: May 2004
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posted 10-03-2004 12:00 PM
Hey Guys and Gals, I go way back. I was 13 (long story) when I ran my first movie to a theater type audience. I had previously run several 16 mm. to school classrooms. It was at the VA hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1947. The movie was “Stanley and Livingstone” starring Spencer Tracey, about Stanley going to Africa to find the missing Scottish missionary, Dr. Livingstone. I ran movies at the hospital, off and on, for several years after that. They had movies 2 nights a week, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Yeah, I know what y’all are thinking, what were the folks in charge thinking letting a kid do that when all the film at that time was nitrate. The equipment was old and the low intensity carbon arc lamp used those huge rods. The lamp was adjusted by controlling that silver dollar size circle of light on the aperture opening, looking thru the tinted glass between the shutter and aperture. About 2 years later the VA installed a complete new set-up, top to bottom, with Century stuff. I did this work at the VA as a volunteer.
I am now going to start a new thread, along the same lines, asking who has the record for showing the same movie. I ran “From Here to Eternity” 138 times.
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Jeremy Jorgenson
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1002
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-19-2010 05:00 PM
Not sure which one started first, but mine was a shift at a 6 plex:
Titanic
Paulie
Tarzan and the Lost City
Species II
Mercury Rising
and I'm not 100% sure, but looking at the box office results for that weekend, I'm going to guess the sixth was:
The Odd Couple II
Those are all 35mm, my first 70mm would be two 15/70 IMAX films: Sigfried and Roy: The Magic Box which was 3D and Africa's Elephant Kingdom which was 2D. My first 15/70 feature was Fantasia/2000. 8/70 would be Beauty and the Beast. My first DCinema movie was Everybody's Fine from just about a month ago, about 11˝ years after I projected my first 35mm film. Oddly, had it been two weeks later, it would have been Avatar, and then James Cameron would've directed my first solo 35 & my first solo digital...
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 01-20-2010 02:26 AM
October 1969 - TetonVu Dr-In in Rexburg, Idaho
I had just got finished with my booth training and was given the opportunity to open up a new movie that I had to run to the bus depot and pick up on my own.
..it was a very unknown title that no one ever heard before - kinda snuck in from FOX ..
I looked on the two cans for the title:
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
"What was this all about?" I wondered.
Opened up the cans, took out Reel no.1 . It had the bands on them with the big greens seals showing that "This is a new print. Please handle with care". (FOX did this with all of their new prints. Other companies just had a simple inspection seal holding down the strings.) Took it to the bench to inspect and rewind on our house reels since new prints always came in tails up.
Dusk approached and it was time to get on the screen. Fired up the Ashcrafts and Motiographs to play the UA cartoon of "Ant and the Aardvark",then did the change over to this new movie.
As I was trying to watch this interesting western,it became apparent to me that this could be a 'sleeper hit' down the road, but at the time it was a total unknown-why we only played it 4 days being Wed thru Saturday with a mediocre crowd in our 400 car yard.
Well, popularity caught up with it and with the 1970 season, we brought it back to sellout crowds at our drive-in.
Dang, that was total fun back then ...
-Monte
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