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Author Topic: You know you're a Projectionist when -: Hans Van Der Vlist Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Registered: Aug 2005 posted 01-14-2011 10:25 AM                     You MUST be a film projectionist if you only feel alive after checking all the worlds film forums form your favorit list.  |  IP: Logged Manny Montes Master Film Handler Posts: 270 From: United States Registered: Feb 2010 posted 01-14-2011 12:49 PM                     When you tell people what you do and they all say "Oh, Like in Fight Club?" and you die inside...  |  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 01-14-2011 01:51 PM                     ...when you spent the remaining days of your life regretting telling that kid who asked you... "What's your job, Mister?" ...and you reply... "I'm a Projectionist"... and the kid asks.. "What does that mean?"... ... and you say .. "Well, I'm the guy who spends all day in darkened rooms, punching out all those little holes on each side of the film!" ..and the kid just stares and blinks at you. This is the moment you realise that comedy is not your forte and you should stick staying in darkened rooms and punching out the little holes in the sides of film.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-14-2011 10:19 PM                     ...you roll your eyes at just about every well-intentioned but horribly rendered illustration of film used in print and TV. (You know, that 50mm-wide stock without soundtrack with a variable five to eight perfs per frame.) ...you cringe at a countdown leader you saw on YouTube that continues past “2”.  |  IP: Logged Allan Riddelll Film Handler Posts: 33 From: msida , malta, europe Registered: Jan 2009 posted 01-17-2011 04:24 AM                     YOU KNOW YOUR A PROJECTIONIST WHEN YOU WATCH ALL THOSE OLD 'ROADSHOW' MOVIES ON TV AND GET UP TO GET A BEER COZ YOU KNOW THE INTERMISSION IS COMING UP.  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 01-17-2011 10:39 AM                        quote: Allan Riddelll YOU KNOW YOUR A PROJECTIONIST WHEN YOU WATCH ALL THOSE OLD 'ROADSHOW' MOVIES ON TV AND GET UP TO GET A BEER COZ YOU KNOW THE INTERMISSION IS COMING UP. When I was a kid, but very aware about film presentation technology, whenever a film played on TV and I saw the reel changeover dots, I used to scream out "commercial!" and 99% of the time, there'd be one. My family never figured out how I did that.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 01-17-2011 12:57 PM                     quote: Martin Brooks whenever a film played on TV and I saw the reel changeover dots I remember that up till around the mid 1980's there were cue marks on many "live" network TV programs, such as game shows and even on the Tonight Show. They were usually little white square dots(an oxymoron!) on the upper right that quickly flashed two or three times about 10sec before the video faded out. I assume the local stations "down the line" used them to start their video-tape or film prerolls.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-17-2011 01:11 PM                        You know you're a projectionist when you run movies for an audience.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Udovich Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Sheboygan, WI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-17-2011 11:18 PM                        you used film cement to make a splice  |  IP: Logged Bryan Parkhurst Film Handler Posts: 4 From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Registered: Jan 2011 posted 01-22-2011 06:54 PM                     you get word to turn the lights down in a theatre, run to the booth, and find... its still in the damn trailers! And that just happened to me 5 minutes ago.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-24-2011 05:53 PM                     ...a 'fake' film break in a DLP or home video performance makes you bolt out of your seat. ...you give visiting guests (or worse, your date) a tour of where all the old closed down theatres you used to work at were located. ...you have a picnic table made out of a Christie AW2 platter deck and a large Goldberg tower reel. ...Your main travel destination for the year is to attend ShoWest/ShowEast/CinemaCon. ...you prefer a shortened version of a song played over end credits because the well-used print you ran in a discount house was missing part of the credits causing an early tailout (this is especially true for me with Peter Cetera's Glory Of Love)  |  IP: Logged Andres Briano Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Buenos Aires, Argentina Registered: Jan 2008 posted 03-23-2011 02:01 PM                        You know you are a projectionist when... ...it makes you mad that you cannot adjust the height of the subtitles when watching a DVD on your TV.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-23-2011 04:46 PM                     ...you no longer use the expletive "AWAH SHIT" in the projection booth.  |  IP: Logged Lindsay Morris Expert Film Handler Posts: 233 From: Darlington, WA, Australia Registered: Sep 2002 posted 03-25-2011 12:50 AM                     You go Awwh Shit when you see that you have spliced in a reel upside down and have to recover from it quickly. Luckily using a MUT so only lost 14mins on screen..big wakeup call though! First and last time ever..I hope.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-25-2011 01:24 AM                     wtf?  |  IP: Logged

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