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Rick Raskin
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Manassas Virginia
Registered: Jan 2003

posted 04-08-2007 06:47 PM

Wow!

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Frank Angel
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posted 04-08-2007 06:48 PM

It's all depending on how authentic the director wants it to look. A film crew was shooting a documentary about our theatre in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and the director had three of her crew hoist the equipment up to the top of the tower with the interviewer to ask me about our operation. She wanted to see the screen, the audience, the projector and me, all in the same shot. She had me sit on the floor with my head level with the soundhead, the soundhead door opened and the film running. I explained that anyone who knows about 35mm projectors would know that you don't operate them from that position; I told her it would just look silly, not to mention how silly I felt sitting there. She assured me it would look fine. Authenticity seemed to be out the window.

On the other hand, when they cut it and the piece was done, it actually didn't look to bad. Guess that's why she's the filmmaker and I'm the projectionist.

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Marin Zorica
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From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia
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posted 04-12-2007 12:28 PM

If You have DLP projector........did You gonna put CP-65 in Cannes?

Also...can some cheap portable home camera can be easily attached to DLP? ;-)

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Fabrice Dubourg
Film Handler

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From: Granville, France
Registered: Feb 2003

posted 04-14-2007 12:34 PM

put a camcorder on a D-cinema projector is not as easy as you can see in the film, you need to add a scaler, after you can also play with you X-box if you want.
they used a fp30 and a dcp70 supplied by TACC, the french supplier of kinoton in france.
this scene was filmed in the studio la victorine in Nice.

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Brian Guckian
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From: Dublin, Ireland
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posted 04-15-2007 05:29 PM

Just to confirm that Fabrice's information is correct. The preview theatre in Paris I cited earlier must have been used for the pick-ups.

(I got a Kinoton press release on this just a few days ago and was going to put the correction up...too slow!)

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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 05-13-2007 06:07 AM

http://www.kinoton.com/pdf/pr_mr-bean_e.pdf

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