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Author Topic: Carbon Arc Booth Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-25-2006 05:12 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer At least Phil had a good looking Simplex XL / "4-Star" booth there - with matching Magnarc lamphouses.. That's an RCA soundhead in Phil's picture. quote: Monte L Fullmer Aaron - the STRONG X-16's, weren't those the vertical bulb units that looks like a Magnarc lamphouse? Yep. Basically a converted Magnarc. Bulbs were a bitch to focus on those. Here's one of the drive-ins I worked at back when it still had carbons (early 1982). I really loved those Futura IIs! -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-25-2006 05:43 AM                     Phil, Was that a military booth? Bob  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-25-2006 07:35 AM                     Here is a photo of Rick McKay as he observes reel #3 of "Braodway ..The Golden Age" at the Temple Theatre in Saginaw, MI. Carbon light from Ashcraft lamps. Insert Photo here  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-26-2006 12:48 AM                        Dan..The Stanford is still carbon arc.. in fact, I supplied the booth when it was remodeled years ago! The projectors are XLs and are fully equipped for nitrate film! Yes! Nitrate! David Packard tends to run a lot of archive nitrate prints from the UCLA archives! I had to rebuild the XLs ( that came out of the Keystone Cinema in Reno, NV ) for nitrate, including fire shutters and full film compartment and magazine air tight seals ( MASS. requirements) The lamps are Magnarcs with a motorgenerator in the basement! (200ft arc lamp leads!) The genny and back-up rectifiers had to be located in the basement as the original genny room adjacent to the booth was needed for a second fire exit for the operators to meet current UBC & national fire codes! My Long time friend and former employee Mac Wurtsbaugh was the installer for me on the job. Opening nite was fun when David Packard presented an original NITRATE print of Wizard of OZ! ( The local media proclaimed it as the "colorized" version!!! )  |  IP: Logged Dan Zastrow Film Handler Posts: 38 From: San Rafael,CA. USA Registered: May 2006 posted 05-26-2006 11:39 AM                        Yup, that David Packard is my kind of crazy. I had heard he set-up for nitrate. Did you have to put in fire plates for the projector ports, metal fire doors etc? I can hear it now "Alfredo! Alfredo!"  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-26-2006 01:18 PM                     Have a friend who was about that little boy's age when he starting to run projectors and just about did the same: stood up on the stool to lace up the machines, change the rods and struck up the lamphouses - only thing, it wasn't the small town's projectionist like Alfredo..it was his father. We're still great friends and he's the one that really helped me get into this crazy field of work. Yea, go find and watch "Cinema Paradiso" .. great movie. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-26-2006 01:22 PM                  quote: Aaron Sisemore That's an RCA soundhead in Phil's picture. Aaron is correct. quote: Robert Throop Was that a military booth? Yes it was a 1000 seat theatre at Ft. Monmouth Army Base in NJ. What tipped it off to you, Bob?  |  IP: Logged Gordon Burke Film Handler Posts: 15 From: San Jose, CA Registered: Sep 2005 posted 05-26-2006 05:24 PM                        Is there a photo of the Stanford's booth anywhere? I'm too chicken to bug the projectionist to ask for a tour. All I can ever see peering through the porthole is a CP50 and some patch panels on the back wall. I always sit in the balcony portion and enjoy hearing the reel alarms go-off, then anticipate and critique (if necessary) the changeover. There are patches in the concrete wall where it appears the portholes were a few-feet lower than they are now. John, do you have any insight as to why this mod was made if it was done by the David Packard Clan?  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-26-2006 06:36 PM                     Phil, I service an AAFES booth with an identical setup except they have LP xenon lamps. I just replaced the magazines with reel arms last year because they wanted something more "modern". Bob  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-27-2006 03:49 AM                     quote: Gordon Burke I always sit in the balcony portion and enjoy hearing the reel alarms go-off, then anticipate and critique (if necessary) the changeover ..one of the sad reasons why projectionist never went to the movies: critique the changeover, critique the mirror alignment and light output between the two lamphouses, critique the sound quality between machines..then finally critique when someone has used the cue marker to make their own cues over the ones that the labs placed on the film when printing. And when you show someone the cue marks on the screen - in why we have two machines..they will NEVER enjoy the movie again..cuz they will remember and be looking for those cue marks..... and, I do that to this day when explaning someone about cuemarks... (sorry about that on Phil's pict..had SH-1000 on the mind..just that I've rarely worked with an RCA soundhead..my goof..) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Henry Titchen Film Handler Posts: 31 From: Singleton, NSW, Australia Registered: May 2005 posted 06-04-2006 03:43 AM                     On the topic of Carbon Arc booths...does anyone still run an AC carbon setup? Henry.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-04-2006 08:40 AM                        Well, not for film. AC arcs will cause pulsing against the shutter. But we had Hi-Intensity AC arcs for the SuperTrouper followspots up until a few years ago. Now they are xenon sources.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-04-2006 09:47 AM                     Actually Achcraft made a AC projection arc called the cyclex that had a special motor generator that synced the ac to the shutter frequency  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-04-2006 11:45 AM                        Yeah... I worked a booth that had one of those. It took awhile, getting used to the idea that both carbons were the same size... 7's or 8's, I think. Craters on both? Decent light, though. Don't remember what the lamphouse was. Frank, there's a community theatre here that has 2 AC Troupers. Never could get them interested in converting. Maybe, when they run out of carbons.  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-04-2006 02:02 PM                     [QUOTE]Actually Achcraft made a AC projection arc called the cyclex that had a special motor generator that synced the ac to the shutter frequency The Cyclex used a special 96 hz. motor generator for each lamp. Bob  |  IP: Logged

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