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Kyle Smith
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From: Branford, CT, USA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 06-16-2000 01:30 PM
I KNEW IT! You IMPOSTER! Ha, ha, ha! Actually, I'm fairly new to the internet and have been told there are some people on the internet who are, for lack of a better word, "crazy" (not on this site, of course  ). So, on the three forums I am active on, I use an alias. Besides, after all the Hoyt's "bashing" I've done, what if I decided to go back and apply as a manager someday? If they know my real name, my application might be tossed in the "T" file: trash. So pardon me. Joe Pandfolfi knows my name because we used to both work in the same building. Anyway John, I wish Westbrook Cinemas would hire a guy like you for the screencheck experience. I showed the manager the profile written on it in Kodak's newsletter, and he said it was a good idea but that the owners down south probably wouldn't spring for it. Meanwhile, they're taking teenagers (okay, again, I have no issue with their age) from the concession stand and not training them properly, only how to thread and press the start button (they're not even showing them how to check the intermittent for proper framing and get snippy with us when we mention it). Shoot, I had an apprentice show me how the automation worked there, as I had only worked in manual control booths prior. Too bad you're not the real John Pytlak . He's one knowledgable guy. And nice to meet you!
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Rick Long
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 759
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-16-2000 11:47 PM
A little back-ground on the incident at the Can-View Drive-In, Fonthill (about ten miles east of Niagra Falls). It was indeed, running "Twister" that night (although not on the screen that got destroyed). Built in 1982, it has a second floor booth, with four screens, east, west north and south. I had the opportunity of doing a service call there with union projectionist Ron Vello, a few days after the tornado. When I arrived, the crew were re-building the north screen. As Ron described it, "The water came in horizontally around the edge of the port-holes (something that hasn't happened in the 14 years since the place opened). I opened the booth door to the roof level, and it was like looking into a cross-section of the ocean. It took quite a bit of effort to re-close it again." As I drove around the field, checking the quality and coverage of the FM radio sound, I was amazed to see that the two-inch solid steel bars that formed the gate to the north screen had actually been bent by the tornado. According to the manager, the staff on duty that night scoffed at a patrons suggestion that the "real thing" is happening outside.
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I'll find you a better pair. By the way TOO ALL OUT THERE -- we do have splicers. We do not cut the film with the scissors. I was using it to cut a crack into the techicolor reel since it did not have any. 
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