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Topic: Who is running Changeovers?
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-01-2000 10:57 PM
Nope, no cues what so ever (visable).One of the most important keys to being a sucessful projecitonist is being able to think on one's toes. I put on click tabs....clear splicing tape outside of the picture area that would cause the gate to "clack" when they went through the gate and intermittent shoe...I put four in sequence at each point. When you heard "clack, clack, clack,clack...turn on the motor...at the next point...hit the C/O. After the show, pull off the tape...invisable cues. Now doesn't it suck when the magician tells his secrets? Steve ------------------
"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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John Walsh
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From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 10-02-2000 10:54 AM
I worked in one booth (well, I only worked there twice) that had three projectors. Two JJ's and an old Simplex E7. They were running "Alien" in 70mm. It was the good old days; when they also gave you a 35mm back-up print. Had to run trailers befor the show, and it was really nice to just punch over from trailers to feature.At Radio City MH, if it's a high profile show, they will sometimes get two prints and run two projectors at the same time in case there's a problem. When I was running "Alien" at the place, there was no Dolby processor- was "Alien" avaiable in regular 70mm? I know that Dolby would not record anything onto Le and Re if you asked for a regular 70mm, but I was wondering if "Alien" was availble that way, of if the place I worked at was "cheating."
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Tom Sauter
Expert Film Handler
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From: Buffalo, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 10-02-2000 02:55 PM
The Western New York changeover tally:I run 6000' changeovers at the Center for the Arts (200 seat screening room...pictures coming). Strong 1600W Xenon and Century SA. Shea's Buffalo (3100 seat proscenium theatre) runs carbon-arc changeovers. Century JJ 35/70s w/ mag penthouses. Big AC-DC generator recently replaced by rectifiers The Riviera Theatre (Wurlitzer Organ house) runs 2000' carbon arc and is fully equipped and licensed to run nitrate (and sometimes does) In nearby Rochester the University operates two houses w/6000' changeovers and the George Eastman house is also equipped for 2000 footers and nitrate. There's probably more, but one can see changeovers are far from dead around here.
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-03-2000 03:30 AM
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In nearby Rochester the University operates two houses w/6000' changeovers and the George Eastman house is also equipped for 2000 footers and nitrate.
Is that the big Eastman Theatre built in the silents days as part of the Eastman School of Music? I've often wondered if it is still standing and/or operating. (Not many know that Eastman coughed up to establish the School of Music in order to train musicians to accompany silents!)
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Mark Lensenmayer
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From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 10-03-2000 08:33 AM
Regarding ALIEN in 70mm...yes, there were non-Dolby 70mm prints available. That was the first big 70mm release at the time, and a number of the theatres did not have 70mm Dolby units.Those were the days when the 70mm prints opened BEFORE the 35mm prints. I think this happened on one of the Star Wars films, also...possibly Empire? Variety had an ad for Alien that listed all of the theatres running 70mm prints...it was considered a big deal at the time. It would be interesting to see how many of those theatres are still in business. Mark L.
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 10-03-2000 12:20 PM
One of my co-workers also works as a projectionist at the Dryden Theatre of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Yes, they have Century C projectors with 2000-foot magazines, and still equipped to show nitrate prints:
http://www.eastman.org/ The huge Eastman Theatre in Rochester is primarily used for "live" events, but Boston Light & Sound has come in to do several great film presentations with live accompaniment by the Rochester Philharmonic. There is a long-empty projection room high above the balcony in the theatre. My co-worker was instrumental in securing a pair of Norelco AA-II projectors from the Monroe Theatre (that fell on hard times and went the XXX bookstore/peepshow route), that hopefully will bring a permanent film projection capability back to George Eastman's wonderful gift to Rochester. ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-05-2000 12:19 AM
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Shea's Buffalo (3100 seat proscenium theatre) runs carbon-arc changeovers. Century JJ 35/70s w/ mag penthouses. Big AC-DC generator recently replaced by rectifiers
Hmm..if William Enos is here or someone else remembers - what's the Byrd in Richmond using for DC? I can see a couple of rectifiers for the projector lamps, but it's a struggle picturing a big battery charger behind the Brenograph for its carbon arc lamp. ------------------
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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
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posted 10-07-2000 01:59 AM
>>The only theatres I know of that run reel to reel around us Ian are:The Sebastiani in Sonoma.
The Park in Lafayette.
The Grand Lake (Oakland); Orinda (Orinda), the Oaks (Albany) are capable of running reel to reel but they have platters.<< The big house at the Crest in Sacramento just recently had an AW2 installed but can still run changeovers The Mystic in Petaluma while no longer a movie theater (its now a very popular live music venue) has a completely functional changeover (6000' max) booth with Brenkert 80s and Strong X-16 conversions. There is a completely functional carbon arc booth in the Fortuna Theatre that will, by the wishes of the district manager who wants to keep an old booth intact,be left in pristine condition, even though the rest of the building is being converted to a stadium triplex (the rear half of the building was twinned)... >>Doesn't the Castro in SF run reels?<< Yep. 2 JJ's with 6000' max capacity... Aaron
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