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Author Topic: Booth Cleaning John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-25-2004 10:22 PM                        Carpeting can work well, if the proper type of carpet is used, and it is kept clean. Many IMAX theatres have carpeted booths.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-25-2004 10:43 PM                        I'm against carpet in booths in areas with a considerable winter and any amount of traffic in and out of the booth.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-26-2004 05:33 AM                        quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea I'm against carpet in booths in areas with a considerable winter and any amount of traffic in and out of the booth. Ideally, outside footwear (especially wet and salt-laden boots) should be kept outside the booth. Keep a clean pair of shoes for use in the booth. Booth traffic should be limited to essential personnel, i.e., the projectionists.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-26-2004 04:10 PM                        That's fine for theatres where you don't have to travel through the lobby to get between booths. It's also fine in a multiplex where there is little traffic into the booth (which from what I've seen is uncommon) for things like posters, marquee letters, etc. Unfortunately I find a lot of booths get water tracked in during the winter for one reason or another and a tile floor handles that a lot better. For one, the booth won't stink because of a wet carpet.  |  IP: Logged Edward Jurich Master Film Handler Posts: 305 From: Las Vegas USA Registered: Jul 2003 posted 07-26-2004 06:16 PM                     ------------------------------------------- Why would the film end up on the floor??? Even if the tip end of the tail of the reel tapped the floor during loading as it "tailed out" of the reel, that shouldn't matter...unless you are one of those evil theaters that cuts the leaders off when building to large reels before plattering. ------------------------------------------- I'm talking about those times when the the end slips off the platter or table while splicing, not rolling film onto the floor. I don't think I've ever heard of building onto large reels then onto the platter. I've seen rolling off onto 2 large reels to move a print which I like better than using bands.  |  IP: Logged Rhys M. Blavier Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Richardson, Texas, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 07-26-2004 07:34 PM                     quote: Edward Jurich I'm talking about those times when the the end slips off the platter or table while splicing, not rolling film onto the floor. I don't think I've ever heard of building onto large reels then onto the platter. I've seen rolling off onto 2 large reels to move a print which I like better than using bands. Edward, Unless for some kind of emergency time constraints, I always build my films onto 60 minute reels and then load them onto the platter from the 60 minute reeals rather than from individual 20 minute reels. In fact, in the TIPS section of this site, the entry on Building Prints 101 ( http://www.film-tech.com/tips/build.html ) also says that this is how it should be done.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-26-2004 09:09 PM                    That is the only way I like doing it. Building on to 60's and then running it on to the platter. You have more light and control at the main make up bench than you do at the platters.  |  IP: Logged Edward Jurich Master Film Handler Posts: 305 From: Las Vegas USA Registered: Jul 2003 posted 07-26-2004 09:39 PM                     Guess this depends on the booth. Here the hand rewinds only take 2000' reels and is in a tight spot (small booth). There is more room around the platter. Another booth I once worked had no hand rewinds or work table. You'll enjoy this, had to make up a platter once with no rewinds, work table or makeup table. Used a screwdriver to hand hold a reel while using the takeup on platter to make up.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-27-2004 11:40 AM                     Sadly I had my fair share of ghetto-rigging when I was at the 2 screen...The on-screen image quality was better than the other 2 theaters in town until we got the idiot who brainwrapped things all the time, but hey...That was building up using the platter in takeup mode and wedging the mechanism. The reels fed off of an old ass MUT that didn't have the right port, I never got around to modifying it to work with the platters. Whatsmore the speakers were boombox speakers and ONE original screen speaker from JBL from back in the 70's i believe. Anyhow, it took some work to get them in the right places and all of them actually working...ugly. Meanwhile the rewind bench I pulled out of the basement was held together with nails and some of the rollers attatched with pieces of alluminum someone had cut to fit. It was a scary booth... Back on the subject of cleaning though...Be sure and keep your rollers clean, they accumulate a lot of crap. And include all your other equipment too...I clean the house reels, for example, quite often.  |  IP: Logged Steven Jantzen Film Handler Posts: 30 From: goodwell, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 07-27-2004 06:20 PM                     With carpeted booths: My booth is carpeted, but it is a short shag, very durable to high traffic and fairly easy to clean up. As said above, try to keep traffic to a minumum. I also found that keeping a strict regimen of cleaning can be helpful. at least once a week, vacuum your booth. As well, to clean the projectors, we use a mixture of 1 part film gaurd to roughly 8 parts rubbing alchool. This helps to wet down the projector, while dissolving any film shavings, and the film gaurd coats the rollers while the alchool evaporates pretty quickly. this helps to keep down on the dust in the booth, by cleaning the projectors and platters at least once a week as well. These steps aside, i've never really noticed much dust in my booth, even with carpet  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-28-2004 02:00 PM                     You clean house reels? Where do you find them accumulating dirt? --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Cory Isemann Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: White Plains, MD, USA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 07-28-2004 02:13 PM                        House reels can get really nasty just from weekly use. I have found Simple Green cleaner to be very useful for cleaning them and the platter decks too.  |  IP: Logged

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