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Author Topic: Hey you, you suck! (AKA: Outing bad film handlers) Part 2 Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2012 10:48 AM                        Yes, I suppose these days a person should start out by asking, "Do you have a projectionist upstairs?" and if the answer is no, then ask for the manager...if one can be found.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2012 01:37 PM                     The whole "projectionist" title thing irks me. Theater A has a dedicated person upstairs threading, pressing play, whatever. That person is the "projectionist". Theater B has nobody upstairs most of the time. The manager is responsible for setting the "server start timer" or pressing play upstairs or via some sort of remote. That manager is the "projectionist". "Oh we don't have projectionists." Really? Who ingests your content? Who builds your playlists? Who schedules your shows? Who loads your keys? Who moves your content around the building as needed? Who verifies your keys? The manager? That manager IS the projectionist. You may not call him that and it may only be something that occupies 25% of his time, but he is in fact the "projectionist" for that amount of payroll time. Only DCS installations can honestly claim they have no projectionists. It is ridiculous when other installs claim it.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-25-2012 02:01 PM                     The former "booth managers" have now been redubbed "technology managers." I'm the "content" ingester. I'm the playlist builder. The xenon lamp changer. The one who gets called at home when one of the green taillights has turned red. The one who performs monthly filter cleaning. The one who fills out the weekly checklist on the bulb hours and wattage and ft lamberts. And the one who installs replacement concession or box POS terminals, the one who gets the receipt printer working again, the one who gets to call IT when the digital menu board goes dark or plays a blue screen, the one who gets the time clock printer working, then delivering to the employee who hit "print" 20 times 20 copies of his current pay stub...yeah. The same job I have been doing for some time, but with different equipment.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2012 04:32 PM                     So you're not only a projectionist, but a projection maintenance tech, and also an IT guy? Sweet.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2012 04:36 PM                        If you're in charge of projecting an image on your shift, you're the projectionist. I think we can all drop the fear of that word. Those unions must have caused some very deep scars in the industry for so many to be afraid of that title.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2012 05:34 PM                     No Joe. They're Manager-Ps.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-25-2012 05:39 PM                     Do people even know what a projectionist does? I witnessed first-hand a customer at our twin haranguing the manager (who projects because it's a twin) because the movie wasn't showing at some showtime she seemed to have made up because it wasn't even close and asking to see the projectionist....wtf? Also, Thanks Highlands in LA for THRASHING TIN TIN head to tail. For F*&@'s sake!  |  IP: Logged Brent Francis Film Handler Posts: 84 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Nov 2008 posted 01-26-2012 10:48 AM                        I always called myself a projectionist because it's the only part of the job people know about. Otherwise. you spend all day explaining what you do - and then somebody says "you get paid for watching movies? Wow, sure beats working!"  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 01-26-2012 11:02 AM                        Doesn't it?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-27-2012 05:41 PM                     I've always known the term "Projectionist" was the guy with the hands on training and knowledge in both mechanical and electronic/electrical skills - like an actual "tradesman" of sorts. "Booth Operator" was just that: a part time individual who just threads the projector(s) and keep the feature on the screen. If any problems arises with the equipment, he tells the "Projectionist" of the issues he discovered that needs attention.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 01-27-2012 05:51 PM                        Back in the "old days" here you had to have a license from the provincial Fire Commissioner's Office to be a projectionist, i.e. run a booth. They removed that requirement quite a few years ago and now any idiot can do it. Of course, with the digital cinema, neither idiots or anyone else will be doing it before long anyway.... I used to have a T-shirt that said "Projectionists do it in the dark".  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 01-29-2012 03:50 PM                        quote: David Buckley Back to the Future next week, wonder what that'll be like... quote: Robert John Jeromson Pristine I hope, it's 2K digital Yup, pristine, right up the bit where Jennifer and Marty are ascending the school stairs, and then the image freezes for about five seconds. Maybe next week  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-29-2012 05:57 PM                     Hmmmm, I'll bet I know what server they were using.  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 01-31-2012 06:40 PM                        That is a fairly scary remote diagnostic technique  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-31-2012 06:50 PM                     Nope, just obvious patterns.  |  IP: Logged

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