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Kyle Smith
Film Handler
Posts: 21
From: Branford, CT, USA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 06-16-2000 09:02 AM
Bryan, I did work for Hoyt's. I was a head projectionist in Madison several years ago. Then, this past winter, I was hired by the Branford 12 plex (Hoyt's shut down the Madison Cinema). I got bad vibes right away. The management there seemed to have a disdainful attitude towards the projection crew. When they first opened (it's always been a non-union theater), they offered $7.50/hr. When I got there two years later, it was down to $6.50/hr (someone told me wages went down because licenses were no longer needed as of January 1st this year). OK, fine. I'll have to work tons of hours to eat another Wendy's cheeseburger. I love projection, what am I gonna' do? Well the manager decided that the projectionists "don't have enough to do" running 12 Christies. OK, there IS a lot of down time while shows are running. But, c'mon, we actually have to go downstairs repeatedly AND do all the checks dressed in their lovely vest and tie. I felt like a runway model, like a fool. "OK, here's Kyle sporting this custom red vest and blue Hoyt's tag". OK, I can get over my inhibitions too. But when I see a very nice organization like yours (NA), I can see a big difference and I wish they'd open a theater closer to my home. Everything west of the Quinnipiac River is union and pays at least $10/hr. Everything east is non-union (at least in Southern CT) and pays between $6.50 and $8/hr. Now Crown Theaters is talking about opening a 17 plex in New London. Are they union or non-union? I know Milt Daly (Crown's V.P.) and he seems like a very nice guy and employer. Maybe that'll be something to consider.* In Connecticut, the price of living is quite high. I realize in other states these wages are adequate. But gas alone costs nearly $2.00 per gallon and taxes are very high. As for rewinding, we have dual spindle makeup/breakdown benches. I simply take the tail of the trailer or reel and wind it from the makeup spindle onto an empty reel on the rewind spindle. But most theaters have an exclusive rewind bench (Madison, now an independent art cinema, has a Kelmar) that you can load reels onto 6000' reels for fast buildup.
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I was working this past Sunday at the Showcase Cinemas in Orange, CT when the power went out for half a second. I lost sound in four of the eight houses, although none of the pictures were lost. All of the films that were affected were playing in SR-D with a CP65/DA20 setup. To restore sound I just manually pushed the SR button on the front of the CP65, restored sound, then hit SR-D putting it back into Dolby Digital. Everything was fine thereafter. Any ideas on why this occured?
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