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Author Topic: Super Symplex Shutter problem....(updated) Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-16-2006 03:29 PM                       quote: David Stambaugh it re-opened in July 2006 following some renovation. There are some before-and-after pics of the concessions and other stuff, but I don't see anything about the booth equipment. I'm reminded of the old cartoon in Boxoffice magazine years ago. A manager is chiding his projectionist, "Don't bother me about your broken intermittent, Jensen. I've got problems with concession sales being down!"  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-16-2006 05:49 PM                       There's always the one from the British movie "Big Time Operators" or "Smallest Show On Earth". Peter Sellers plays the operator and Margaret Rutherford the cashier. The new owners come to town and there is the usual staff bickering before the meet. The cashier is complaining about getting poison for the rodents. Peter Sellers sez "My projectors are more important than your rats".  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-16-2006 07:04 PM                     Yea, but in the end they kept the old projectors! Probably the rats too.... Didn't they install your reverse scanners on them Sam??? Mark  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-16-2006 08:36 PM                       It was the Bijou Kinema set somewhere in industrial England and the movie was made sometime around 1960. A must see for us lifers.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-16-2006 09:03 PM                     Yea, a great film! Its available on DVD and the transfer is pretty darn good. Mark  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-16-2006 09:24 PM                     The Bijou was a set on a soundstage regretably as one will n otice that the theatre has a balcony with a steep rake yet the booth machines are level As to the super simplex they have outlived there usefullness and it is time to move on  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-17-2006 01:37 AM                     Yea. great flik with Sellers as Mr. Quill - still wondering what kind of machines those were. (and do you have to spin the front shutter to get it going..??? .. wonder if they were Powers..) ...and the "Born Free" duo of Makenna and Travers became the rightful owners of the Bijou Kinema. (Dang.. too bad they couldn't have inherited the Grand...)  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-17-2006 08:23 AM                     They were I believe Kalees with kalee vulcan lamps  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-17-2006 08:47 AM                       I loved that show.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-17-2006 10:55 AM                       I showed this movie at a theatre in Berkeley that was considered the Bijou of that town. We even had a fake missed changeover at one show to great applause. Todays audience would just take such a mishap as routine.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 10-18-2006 12:29 AM                        quote: Sam D. Chavez We even had a fake missed changeover at one show to great applause. Like letting the reel run out, and allowing the tail to be visible on screen?  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-19-2006 12:35 AM                       It was over 40 years ago but as I remember it, we showed some leader number on the incoming machine. The hip Berkeley audience picked it up in a second because in those days letter perfect shows were the rule not the exception even in the most humble cinema in town. We had one of the best IA locals in California and a lot of great techs started there.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-19-2006 09:39 AM                       Amen, Sam! Even in my small hometown of Winchester, KY. You absolutely did not have those kinds of problems. It was extremely rare, because the men working the booths had been there for decades.  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-19-2006 06:50 PM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer Yea. great flik with Sellers as Mr. Quill - still wondering what kind of machines those were. (and do you have to spin the front shutter to get it going..??? .. wonder if they were Powers..) I knew the projectionist on the set at Shepperton Studios, who showed Peter Sellers and Bill Travers how to lace and operate the projectors. He told me they were Kalee front shutter model 7 with Kalee Vulcan arc's. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050985/ A better DVD cover showing Margaret Rutherford as Mrs Fazackalee and Bernard Miles as Old Tom. [ 10-20-2006, 04:40 AM: Message edited by: Bernard Tonks ]  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-19-2006 10:50 PM                       That's great info, Bernard, thanks!  |  IP: Logged

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