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Author Topic: You know you're a Projectionist when -: Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-10-2011 11:50 AM                     Someone asks you how long a film is, and you tell them how many reels it is. You are driving along, and notice a building that (at least on one side) has no windows, and is painted white, and you think about how fun it would be to project a movie onto that building.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-10-2011 12:24 PM                        ...somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours. [quot]projectors are "machines" [/quote] I learned that from the guy who taught me. Glad to see it's nationwide!  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-10-2011 01:19 PM                    Someone asks you how long a movie is and you say 147 GB.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-10-2011 03:33 PM                     Mike, International Association Theatrical Stage Employees & Motion Picture Machine Operators Commonly known as the IA IATSE and IATSE&MPMO  |  IP: Logged Dick Prather Master Film Handler Posts: 259 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-10-2011 04:43 PM                     You hate it when the new DVD's have no que marks when you know you made a changeover there. You think it's a different movie because the sound has been completely remixed from when you ran it.  |  IP: Logged Matt Johnston Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Fort Myers, FL Registered: Oct 2009 posted 01-10-2011 04:46 PM                     ... when you read this thread and laugh about how much you can relate to these and how much your wife HATES that you can relate to these.  |  IP: Logged Robert D Hall Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Abingdon V.A USA Registered: Mar 2010 posted 01-10-2011 04:55 PM                        When you go to a theater you have never been before. And find your self climbing the back row seats just to get a look at the booth.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-10-2011 05:13 PM                     Have nightmares of taring down a machine only to be "pressed" for time to get it back together before the next show. You look around and see what seems like a thousand pieces left to put back on with less than 5 minutes til show time.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 01-10-2011 05:58 PM                       Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing only darkness, thinking you missed a changeover. I know...I'm an old timer.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-10-2011 07:04 PM                     or waking up every 18min :)ding ding  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-10-2011 07:12 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley ...somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours. Instead say "Approximately 172,800 frames" or "Approx 10,800 feet."  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-10-2011 07:30 PM                        Gordon: what a great idea for a cell phone ring. Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-10-2011 07:45 PM                    quote: Gordon McLeod ding ding You get TWO dings?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-10-2011 08:44 PM                     the standard reel alarm in canada was the Jackson that was an excentric mounted pendulum bell assemble on the upper reel shaft  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-10-2011 08:44 PM                     Mark, The old Hatke reel end alarms with the ball bearing inside always gave 2 dings. If you spun the reel too fast when threading it would give 3 dings. The other magazines that had the arm riding on the emulsion side of the film only made 1 ding when the arm fell.  |  IP: Logged

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