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Author Topic: You know you're a Projectionist when -: Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-09-2011 06:55 PM                     You have imdb.com and Box Office mojo on other tabs while on here.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-09-2011 08:51 PM                     ...you're the Manager and you actually know what to tell your Projectionist when something goes wrong, and with the right terms. ...a little bit of you dies inside each time the floor staff make an idiotic call on the radio: 'the film is fuzzy' 'its broken'.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-09-2011 09:24 PM                     quote: Martin McCaffery You quit going to the movies because they aren't show properly I certainly avoid some specific movie theaters over that issue. quote: Scott Norwood You want to scream whenever you see 4x3 pictures stretched out to fit 16x9 TV screens. Or vice-versa. I'm not a projectionist but that stuff makes me want to scream anyway.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 01-09-2011 09:33 PM                     ..when you hear for the millionth time, "Can you turn the brightness up?"  |  IP: Logged Chris Mosel Film Handler Posts: 74 From: New Braunfels, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-09-2011 09:42 PM                     ....you found and replied to this thread.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-09-2011 10:47 PM                        ...even when showing a DVD to your wife in your house, you get it cued up ahead of time and bypass all the menus and stuff so you can start the feature "on time"...all in the name of Good Presentation.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-09-2011 11:18 PM                        quote: Ian Parfrey ..when you hear for the millionth time, "Can you turn the brightness up?" Sure, I probably got this a few times when I was at Madstone. Haven't heard it ever since I've been with Regency (same exact building, but with better stuff). And Ian, I certainly hope you only hear that on 3D movies.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-09-2011 11:32 PM                    You come home smelling like Film Guard & Simplex projector oil.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-10-2011 12:06 AM                     quote: Mark J. Marshall You come home smelling like Film Guard & Simplex projector oil. What is going on up in your booth? I (like a normal human being) usually come home smelling like booze and cheap strippers.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 01-10-2011 02:36 AM                     You have your room decorated with countdown leader and old trailers...  |  IP: Logged Mandy Moncayo Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Sunnyside, NY Registered: Jan 2011 posted 01-10-2011 02:56 AM                     You want to scream when people ask you to fast forward/skip the trailers.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 01-10-2011 05:22 AM                     ..when visitors to the projection room are impressed by the size of your 'cameras'.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-10-2011 06:49 AM                     ...projectors are "machines" and the booth is "upstairs".  |  IP: Logged Paavo Mardi Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Tartu / Estonia Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-10-2011 07:42 AM                     ... you run the booth even in your dreams.  |  IP: Logged Robert John Jeromson Master Film Handler Posts: 264 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jul 2004 posted 01-10-2011 11:49 AM                     You can remember what cinema you saw a film in, what its aspect ratio was and what sound format you heard it in...  |  IP: Logged

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