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Author Topic: I Finally Met The Booth Monster! Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 11-10-2005 05:00 AM                        No Wonder the used prints we get from USA are full of scratches ! you guys are packing up those booth monsters and sending them over here! (only joking) I have never seen a monster the size of Mark's , and if I did i would close down the cinema encase it in concrete and build a new one! I will say the Cinemeccanica platters are very good at switching the show off when there is a problem ,I know alot of operators don't like them but I have never experienced a disaster with them yet .  |  IP: Logged Nick Scott Expert Film Handler Posts: 133 From: nsw austrailia Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-10-2005 05:18 AM                        I met the booth monster with a cinemeccanica cnr 3-35 platter. The pin that holds tension on the take up arm broke causing the take up arm to stop where it was which didnt trigger the fail safes. It took about 1 hour to get the whole print back up to scratch. Hopfully the monster has left for good now.  |  IP: Logged Stewart Anderson Expert Film Handler Posts: 105 From: Sandy, Utah /United States of America Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-10-2005 06:39 PM                        How much film was there that took one hour? My monster was a long time ago, but I think it took us a lot longer then one hour.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-10-2005 06:42 PM                     quote: My monster was only about 15 minutes of film and it made a monster about the size of Marks. I cant imagine what kind of monster a whole hours worth of film would make. Ah hum....... Stewart.....My monster was in fact all but 100 feet of "Elizabethtown". So thats 5 plus reels.... not 15 min. or 1 hour worth...... A 15 min. monster is a winkidink by comparison. Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-11-2005 02:55 AM                     ..hate to see the monster attack the JCommons IMAX there. Stewart would be learning something very new, very quickly ....lol.  |  IP: Logged Nick Scott Expert Film Handler Posts: 133 From: nsw austrailia Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-11-2005 04:31 PM                        The monster was about 45mins of film. To get it all back in tip top shape i just put a 6000ft spl on our lower take up arm and it all pretty much just came strait back up from end to start.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-11-2005 05:33 PM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer ..hate to see the monster attack the JCommons IMAX there. Stewart would be learning something very new, very quickly ....lol. Bwahahahahaha, Stewart already experienced that at Thanksgiving Point 15/70 back before the battery backup was installed and when power bumps were really bad in the summer . Makes a mess and usually damages the projector! How bout it Stew.... tell us about some of those........!!!!! The evils of running two projectors at high linear speed with unknown power quality !! Otherwise known as not taking your manufacturers installation advice and learning the hard way... or flying by the seat of your pants.... Wasn't Stews fault be he sure got to expereince the cause and effect...... Mark  |  IP: Logged Stewart Anderson Expert Film Handler Posts: 105 From: Sandy, Utah /United States of America Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-12-2005 06:20 AM                        Yeah, we definitely had more then our fair share of power failures (thank you Utah County ). And since the rotor ways like 200 lbs and is rotating 3 revolutions per second it doesn't stop on a dime. The take up will stop a lot quicker (and so will the pay out, making me even more screwed). This being the case the film does drop, but on that equipment it usually didn't drop on the floor, it would actually get behind the output sprocket and go back into the projector behind the rotor and get all tangled up in the rotor itself where film should never be. On one occurrence I just so happened to be near the output side of the right eye projector running a 2D show when the power went out, so I instantly started to pull the film out of the projector as fast as I could to prevent it from tangling up inside the machine again. Talk about an adrenaline rush... Unfortunately the pay out didn't keep up so it still did a little bit of damage to the film, but it could have been worse. But that was at Thanksgiving Point. Here at the Commons IMAX has some how created a system that will stop everything correctly in a power failure. Don't know how they do it but its awsome. Come to think of it does anyone know how a Barco DLP system would react to a power failure? We have only been running it for about a week or so now and as far as I know we haven't experienced that yet. Obviously this will not result in a film spill so if you know that answer we should probably start or continue another thread. [ 11-12-2005, 08:39 PM: Message edited by: Stewart Anderson ]  |  IP: Logged

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