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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 05-03-2001 01:48 PM

Joe: The excitement of thinking about the award made me lose my ability to use the right words.

The Academy did send a 160 minute tape of the entire ceremony to each of the winners. I'll make a copy of my acceptance speech (including the original "LAD Poem") and mail it to you. Please e-mail me your address.

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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 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

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Jay L. Metcalf
Film Handler

Posts: 7
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 05-04-2001 01:35 AM

Congratulations!!! With out a doubt, you deserve it! Thank you for all of your helpful technical advice and guidlines that you have provided over the years. You are definatly a valued asset for this industry.

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Jay L. Metcalf
General Manager
Carmike 10
Colorado Spgs, CO
[URL=http://www.carmike.com]

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John T. Hendrickson, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 889
From: Freehold, NJ, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 05-04-2001 09:37 AM

John:

Wonderful news. You are the first Oscar winner I have had the pleasure to talk to personally over the phone!

Kudos, and keep the reels rolling.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 05-04-2001 12:20 PM

John H.: Thanks.

And I was even able to help you solve your projector shedding problem over the phone!

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Heyward Garner
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 101
From: Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 06-22-2001 03:14 AM

John, as if every one of us was not impressed before, and since I have not yet had the opportunity to say so, much congrats to you. Please, PLEASE keep up the good work long enough for me to learn everything you have stored in your brain. =)

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-22-2001 03:28 AM

Heyward:

Not only would that take until the end of time, your head would probably explode trying to cram all that knowledge into your cranium!

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Tao Yue
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 209
From: Princeton, NJ
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 06-22-2001 08:21 AM

Not to beat a side topic to death, but John had it correct originally: "for me and my family." "For" is a preposition, so the words following it should be in object form. Try saying "That was a memorable event for I" and you'll see why it should be "That was a memorable event for me." Even though John is using a compound object here, that rule still holds.

Another common grammatical mistake is to say "between you and I" even though "between" is a preposition and the correct phrasing is "between you and me."

I suppose the reason people overcompensate for grammatical errors to the point that they introduce new errors is that they've become used to correcting people when they start a sentence with object pronouns: "Me and my family went out to the park." That's wrong -- it should be "my family and I" -- but we've corrected phrases involving "me and someone else" so often that we're changing them even when they're right.

To get back on topic -- I'd like to add my congratulations to John. I've been lurking on this forum for two months, and posting for three weeks or so, and must've seen at least a hundred instances of John clearing up inquiries with his authoritative knowledge. A great help to Film-Tech!

Another on-topic matter: I haven't seen the test film with the LAD girl that you mention. Can anybody scan it in and post it?

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Tao Yue
MIT '04: Course VI-2, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Projectionist, MIT Lecture Series Committee

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Peter Berrett
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 602
From: Victoria, Australia
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-22-2001 08:13 PM

Congratualtions John

I think you've earned the titled 'Film God'

cheers Peter

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