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Author Topic: List some dumb things you have seen projectionists do Chris Unwin Film Handler Posts: 20 From: Langley B.C. Canada (Vancouver) Registered: May 2006 posted 05-19-2006 06:21 AM                     I once saw a manager drop a whole print on the floor and it rolled down the stairs into the middle of the lobby ten minutes before the first of four shows for that day. It took me eight frustrating hours to fix HIS mess. Oh ya..........all four shows were canceled for the day.....the company gave up their plan of trying to replace projectionists' with manager "THREADERS"..........and I never did see that manager again!  |  IP: Logged Dan Zastrow Film Handler Posts: 38 From: San Rafael,CA. USA Registered: May 2006 posted 05-21-2006 04:05 PM                        I had a trainee who after starting a projector using a Cat. 701 digital sound head was sure that the drive sprocket wasn’t moving. So…she stuck her index finger in it! Left a nice set of sprocket holes in her fingernail. She left after doing a similar thing with a 6K reel on the rewind table.  |  IP: Logged Tom Sauter Expert Film Handler Posts: 163 From: Buffalo, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-21-2006 05:01 PM                        I was training a guy to run changeovers a few years ago, and he had this great idea that instead of watching for the cue marks he would just time the reels with his stopwatch. I told him not to, that it wouldn't work, etc, and he agreed, but being something of an ass he didn't take my advice. I was in the booth with him, watching over his shoulder, as the motor cue hit. A few seconds later I began saying, over and over, with increasing urgency, "start the motor. start the motor. START THE F***ING MOTOR!" But he wasn't paying attention, rather, he was staring at his stopwatch convinced he had another 20 seconds to go. After the tail ran through, and he treated the audience to a nice countdown leader, he got the point.  |  IP: Logged

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