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Stephen Brown
Film Handler

Posts: 91
From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 01-10-2000 04:21 AM

One of my favourites is Marty Feldman becoming the supply reel in Mel Brook's SILENT MOVIE feeding the film into the projector flipping out all over the projection room

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Steve Guttag
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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-10-2000 08:30 AM

Just thought of another one...

Damion: The Omen II

There is a scene when the little devil is the projectionist for their home theatre.

Steve

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Jason Burroughs
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From: Allen, TX
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posted 01-10-2000 01:23 PM

I can recall a trailer that I saw one time where the majority of it took place in the booth... It was for a film called "The Willies" or something like that. I think Brad may actually have the trailer (Brad I know Jeff did). As I recall the movie was never released. I don't remember what projector it had in it, but it showed a carbon-arc lamphouse.

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Brett Rankin
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From: Sierra Madre, CA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-10-2000 01:45 PM

And of course the little 1986 horror gem "Anguish" (which I have on 35mm) where about the second half of the film takes place in a theater, as the crazed killer silently slits the patron's throats on at a time in the dark.

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Ari Nordström
Master Film Handler

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From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 01-10-2000 03:49 PM

Just watched a film with a drive-in theatre showing "The Shining". The movie in question is "Twister" and a F4 twister hits the drive-in just as Jack Nicholson is smashing the door with an ax to get to Shelley Duvall.

Good films, both of them.

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

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From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-11-2000 12:10 AM

Or in the movie 'Dirty Work' where Norm McDonald runs 'Men In Black(Who Like To Have Sex With Other Men)' from a 6000' reel on a Ballantyne Pro-35...

Aaron

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Erika Hellgren
Expert Film Handler

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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-11-2000 02:37 PM

The Shawshank Redemption. There's a scene where the main character gets beat up in a little projection room. I particularly like it when Tim Robbins hits the other guy in the face with a metal reel full of film. Ouch, that's gotta hurt!

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-11-2000 03:26 PM

Jon, believe it or not, that's accurate. It was not done that way for the sake of brevity in the story, as I originally thought. I found out many small town theatres in Italy only ever had one projector.

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Colin Wiseley
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From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-11-2000 06:16 PM

Don't forget Fight Club. Brad Pitt has a great time inserting frames from porno films into Disney movies. There's also a couple of porno frames inserted into Fight Club. I don't remember what the projectors were that he was using but it was reel to reel.

That movie gives away a lot of projection secrets, like tick marks, reel changes, and how splices are made.

Colin Wiseley
Lyric Theatre
Blacksburg VA

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Paul Salley
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From: Liberal, Kansas
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 01-21-2001 05:11 PM

I recently watched a movie called TARGETS on AMC which at the end of the movie features the bad guy holding out at a drive-in. Good scene featuring the projectionist and a great shot of the booth.

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 01-21-2001 05:33 PM

there was a movie that came out about 16 years ago called The Quiet Earth. It was made in New Zealand. If I remember right, it has been a long time since I have seen this one, the star (Bruno Lawrance) in his quest to find anyone alive comes across a movie theater. He goes in goes up to the booth and figures out how to power and run the film. He then sits in the theater and watches the movie. This was a good science fiction movie

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 01-21-2001 08:04 PM

Here's an obscure one....I have the prologs to "This is Cinerama" and "Cinerama Holiday" in my collection. Cinerama Holiday has great shots of a Cinerama Booth, The Palace Theater in Chicago, and the Cinerama camera.
I recently supplied a 1920's Silent Simplex Standard with operating verticle arc, plus a Century SA for an episode of "Touched By An Angel"
BTW: The booth for "Come See The Paradise" was supplied by Dick Prather from Portland.
Mark @ GTS

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Greg Mueller
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From: Port Gamble, WA
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posted 01-21-2001 08:42 PM

The last scene in The Quiet Earth was a real knock out. Interesting film

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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-21-2001 09:34 PM

There's a scene in Godard's "Masculin Feminin" in which a guy leaves his girlfriend in a theatre while he goes up to the booth (Peerless lamps, but I don't remember what else...) to complain about the movie being shown in the wrong aspect ratio...

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Mark Lensenmayer
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From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-22-2001 06:28 PM

I know of two instances from Mel Brooks movies.

In Blazing Saddles, Hedley buys a ticket to Blazing Saddles (I think he even tries to get in at a childs rate.).

In Silent Movie, the film gets wound around Marty Feldman, and he is taken to the booth and unwrapped.

And don't forget the great moment where the Gemlins take over the film in Gremlins II, and Hulk Hogan has to take care of things. I'm sure a few operators had attacks when that scene hit.

The Gremlins watch Snow White in the first Gramlins, I believe.

Mark L.

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