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Topic: Most Painful Mistake?
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Bob Healey
Film Handler
Posts: 93
From: Milford, CT
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 12-13-2001 01:57 AM
Not physically painful, nor a mistake per se, but
Was running a show of Shrek on campus. 1st show of the night (7pm) Many of the professors etc had brought their kids to see the movie. During the 16mm Bugs Bunny cartoon we were showing before the main feature, the Eiki decided to eat a few frames. Had to changeover from cartoon to reel 1. Audience was not too pleased. The cartoon ran through the projector fine 20 min before show, then I took it off to rewind, and rethreaded it. After Shrek let out, I pulled the cartoon off to examine it, turned out to be two torn sprocket holes, after applying some splicing tape, the cartoon ran fine for the 9:30 and midnight shows. The onlu was you could consider me at fault is I was not in the booth at the time, but in the auditorium checking sound level.
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William Hardie
Film Handler
Posts: 8
From: Calgary, AB, Canada
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-29-2002 12:36 AM
Where this is my first post, I thought this would be a good spot to make a post. I have been a Projectionist for close to 20 years and I still have mistakes (Did I say that?). Most are funny, but a couple have been painful. I won't mention them all hereThe first mistake I remember doing was while I learning the Craft in 1982. I apprenticed at the Capitol Theatre in my hometown of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. I learned on Century SA Projectors/Century R3 Sound Reproducers and Gaumont/Kalee President Carbon Arc Lamps. The thing I was told more than anything else to check after I threaded up was to check the carbon trim. Needless to say, I forgot and the Positive Carbon was a bit short, and the patrons missed seeing Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong landing at the mission in the film "High Road To China". The last thing that was seen was the waterfall. Then the light went out. Talk about the Intercom Buzzer going off. Another funny thing that happened while I was still apprenticing was when we opened Monty Python's "Meaning Of Life". If you remember, this film came with a Short for Reel #1 that actually tied into the film later on. We run Reel #2 as Reel #l after our House Trailers Reel as the start of Reel #2 said "Our Feature Presentation". Then went into Reel #1 with the short. Where it was a Monty Python film, no one noticed and it looked like it was supposed to run this way. It was on the second show, we realized we were running the reels wrong. But the most painful experience was after I took over the Capitol's Booth as Main (And I should add "only") Projectionist and having my carbons go out in Lamp #2 while the show was on (we were using Marble) and opening up the door to the Lamp then striking an Arc. I had spots before my eyes for awhile. Of course this was close to a changeover. In later years I almost ripped my finger off breaking down a print from a Strong AP3 Platter by catching my finger on a fin on the underside of the platter deck. (But That's Another Story) This is all for now. MW
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