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Topic: house lights for end credits?
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Rick Long
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 759
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-16-2002 12:38 AM
From what I have seen of the Big Sky manual, Ken, I don't see any easy way to do it.However, if you buy your local service technician a beer or two, he might be able to provide you with a second sensor, which could be used to pick up cues from the edge of the film, (along the sprocket holes). This sensor could be independantly wired to pulse whatever function you wanted to happen. (P.S. I have found old garbage Scope aperture plates can be bent and mangled into excellent emergency sensor brackets). Depending on the current and voltage this sensor would be required to drive, an interface relay may be required.
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Michael Swarbrick
Film Handler
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From: London, England
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 04-16-2002 08:16 PM
At my cinema we don't put any house lights on until the curtains close after the last studio credit on screen (or until every customer has left the auditorium). Also, there' a chance that we might have the director or other crew member sneakily watching the presentation, and we wouldn't want to piss them off!  If the film is really busy (like 1000+ customers in our main screen), then our GM might request that we have 'Credit' lights on during the ads and trailers only. But our lights aren't designed too well, and they can easily shine on the screen, so we don't do that often. Plus, our contract with our advertisers states that the ads must be played 'in the dark' (and at Dolby level 7, yeah right!). I will admit though that at my last cinema, I sometimes put the house lights on towards the end of the end credits if it was the last show, but only if I didn't have any time and my taxi was coming soon! But I didn't put on any lights that would shine onto the screen, and I don't do that anymore. I agree that if your standard 'emergency lights' aren't enough for people to leave safely during credits, the film, or an actual emergency, then you shouldn't have the public in your building anyway. As for cleaning the screen during the credits, I never used to clean or turn on the cleaners lights until everyone had passed me by at the exit. Unfortunately I've noticed not every usher today is so polite. In just 2 years I've been in booth, I've had a moan at many an usher for turning cleaners lights on before the curtains have even closed! It can bloody hurt your eyes if bright halogen lights come on when you've been in the dark for 2 hours! ------------------
Michael Swarbrick
Projectionist, Empire Leicester Square
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