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Author Topic: You know you're a Projectionist when -: Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-10-2011 08:51 PM                     You know you're a projectionist when... ...you hear the term "brain" and immediately think about what's in the middle of a platter rather than what's between your ears. ...you know a brain wrap isn't some sort of fashionable new head band.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-11-2011 09:00 AM                        Either the Jackson or the Hatke is what triggers my old memories. Either would be really neat. I have both on-the-shelf so if I could hack the phone, it could easily be done. louis  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2011 09:13 AM                        About five years ago, I made a "projector sounds" tape with some good equipment (Schoeps microphone and DAT recorder). It was made for a completely different purpose, but I could make a WAV file of the Hatke bells if anyone wants it. It has the projector and lamp exhaust noise in it as well, however, so it would not work as well as a ringtone or sound effect as a recording of just the bell (which I did not think to make, unfortunately).  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 01-11-2011 09:34 AM                     My Hatke gives 3, sometimes if i'm pulling a heap off to thread it will keep going  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 01-11-2011 10:29 AM                       No one has mentioned "Can't Scratch" reel end alarms. They were made both with mechanical and electrical bells.  |  IP: Logged Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 01-11-2011 12:41 PM                     One knows that one was once a real, reel-to-reel projectionist when the sight of old projection equipment becomes as exciting as revealing images of the opposite sex once were! It could also be an indication that the one who was once a real projectionist is aging right along with the vintage equipment that is so admired!  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-11-2011 01:14 PM                        We are becoming Masters Of Obsolete Technology!! Louis  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-11-2011 01:53 PM                     quote: when the sight of old projection equipment becomes as exciting as revealing images of the opposite sex once were! Ummmm I can't say the same. I guess I'm not a projectionist due to my human nature.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2011 02:53 PM                        ...you can't really read a book for a long uninterrupted time, because you stop after every paragraph to check carbons.  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-11-2011 03:22 PM                     Yep, have to agree with Mr Brown, our cinema in yarmouth has some equipment in the foyer, and i just drool over it, century head, and peerles arc, oh happy days of relief projection at the pavilion cinema blackpool  |  IP: Logged Dick Prather Master Film Handler Posts: 259 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-11-2011 05:26 PM                     when watching a movie at home on video you have to have a tape recorder playing the sound of a running film projector in the room. Nothing makes you jump faster then a sound like film tailing out or snapping in the machine.  |  IP: Logged Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-11-2011 08:16 PM                     You know you are projectionist when.... You bring a three full reel can to the bowling alley and leave the bowling bag in the booth. You hook up an hourmeter to the light switch in your house and wear PPE to change the bulb at 3000 hours. You play a DVD right through to the end of the credits to see if there is a rating card. You schedule a 2hr. 15min. DVD at 5:45 PM so your wife can watch American Idol at 8:00 PM.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2011 09:26 PM                        quote: Joseph Pandolfi You schedule a 2hr. 15min. DVD at 5:45 PM so your wife can watch American Idol at 8:00 PM. Well, that's just bad scheduling. You didn't leave any time for between-shows cleanup!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-11-2011 09:37 PM                        The DVD should play at 8:00 with the turd American Idol canceled.  |  IP: Logged Monique Bouvier Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: May 2007 posted 01-11-2011 10:39 PM                     when watching a dvd at home and the credits start rolling you expect the lights in the place to turn on. for those who use foils for cues... when the credit foil hits at the perfect time (at the start of the first words in the credits) you say, "that is one sexy foil placement".  |  IP: Logged

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