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Author Topic: The first movie you ran on your own was...? Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-24-2010 02:18 PM                     My first solo projection was CARMEN JONES (1954, dir. Otto Preminger), and it was shown in 2000 ft. changeover. I remember getting really nervous when reel one ran out, I was watching out like a falcon for the (non-standard) cue marks. First cue - hit the motor button. Here comes the second cue, hardly visible, but I had memorized it came two seconds after a certain subtitle. Well, I did an almost perfect changover - except for the fact that I had forgotten to put the anamorphic lens on the second machine!  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-25-2010 01:04 PM                        10/20/1989: "Gross Anatomy" I built the feature all 'tails out'. When my manager (Dave Miller) came to check my work, I had already threaded the film. He noticed that the frame was right side up in the aperature window and knew there was a problem. I started the film saw it was upside down. I was there until 4 in the morning tearing the film down and then re-building it. That was the first 'all inclusive', meaning I built it, tore it down, rebuilt it, and then screened it. When it came to starting the features at the Cobb Coralwood Six theatre - I was just shown where the GREEN start button was. Everything else I had to learn on my own.....  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-25-2010 01:40 PM                     Screen 2 Twelve chairs with Mell Brooks,screen 1 Mahogany with Diana Ross.All day on my own,wonderful  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-26-2010 03:22 PM                     My first was Dr. Zhivago in 1986 on 2K reels and carbon arc. I had received just enough training to thread and trim the lamps.  |  IP: Logged Paavo Mardi Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Tartu / Estonia Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-26-2010 04:00 PM                     The first 35mm print I ran my own was "Romance". 2000ft reels, manual changeover. I was 17 then, the movie itself was for 18+ only...  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-26-2010 04:30 PM                     Now that I think of it, my first solo movie must have been "Tarzan The Ape Man" with Bo Derek. I was still apprenticing at the time, and that movie was on a double bill with "For Your Eyes Only." The projectionist on duty made a deal with me; if I run "Tarzan" so he can sit in the balcony (closed to the public) and watch it, he'll run the Bond movie so I can enjoy it in peace. Seemed like a fair deal to me. That was with 2000' reels, changeovers and carbon arc. Summer of '81, I was 17 years old. Ah, what memories!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-26-2010 04:32 PM                     Someone actually watched 'Tarzan The Ape Man' voluntarily???  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-26-2010 04:37 PM                     quote: John Wilson Someone actually watched 'Tarzan The Ape Man' voluntarily??? I don't think it was Tarzan he was watching...  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-26-2010 07:10 PM                    I ran across Tarzan: The Ape Man the other day on instant Netflix.  |  IP: Logged Ted Wilby Film Handler Posts: 3 From: Spring City, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 01-26-2010 07:17 PM                        The first 35mm film I did was Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. I had been there the week before and screwed up while practicing and the Manager said come back Sunday. I came back and he was just starting Dracula. I walked in the booth and he said, "Take over..." It was two Simplex E-7's and 2K reels with Strong Super Lume-X lamps. We were turning off the lamps between 2K reels back then and I was very nervous. I saw the first cue, I turned on the motor, I saw the second cue, I hit the floor pedal. Flushed with my success, I walked behind the projector I had just started and turned off the lamp! I realized instantly what I had done and turned it back on, but it wouldn't strike! It made a clicking sound,"Click.....Tack! Click.....Tack! Everything seemed to be in slow motion. It was taking forever! Finally it lit! Just then the manager came bursting through the door out of breath from three flights of stairs. "It's OK", he said, "everybody makes mistakes, but you MUST refrain from yelling Obscenities!" I was yelling "Oh Shit! Shit!" at the top of my lungs and didn't realize it. Every one in the auditorium could hear me!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-26-2010 07:33 PM                     That's funny, Ted. Knew a guy in the booth once who yelled 'FAAARRRRK' at the top of his lungs whenever something went wrong. The floor knew there was something wrong before the audience sometimes.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-26-2010 09:38 PM                        quote: I was yelling "Oh Shit! Shit!" at the top of my lungs and didn't realize it. Every one in the auditorium could hear me! That made me laugh. At least the customers knew right away that someone in the booth was aware of the problem.  |  IP: Logged Brent Francis Film Handler Posts: 84 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Nov 2008 posted 01-27-2010 01:09 PM                        A 16MM print of "Dirty Harry" for the Carleton University Cinema Club, Ottawa, back in 1980. I didn't even know it was Scope & didn't have a lens. The audience, mostly stoned, thought it looked even better that way!  |  IP: Logged Sally Ann Burgess Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Queenstown, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2008 posted 01-28-2010 12:54 AM                     I was working at a 9-plex and I don't remember exactly what film I got to run first, probably Titanic I think but I DO remember my first solo interlock, which was very hastily shown to me. It was Notting Hill, it was sold out in both screens, and I was VERY nervous!!! But hey it ran OK.  |  IP: Logged Tony Gallimore Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Willis, Virginia, USA Registered: Jul 2009 posted 01-31-2010 05:03 PM                     This takes me back to the 60's when I was around fourteen. The regular projectionist took an unexpected night off. The owner knew I had been hanging around a lot and had run the booth with no problems while the projectionist was on site, so he said get up there and get threaded up... you've got it tonight. We were running "Spencer's Mountain" with Henry Fonda. I ended up as projectionist pretty soon afterwards. Carbon lighting and twenty minute changeovers... Best job I ever had.  |  IP: Logged

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