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Author Topic: You know you're a Projectionist when -: Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-04-2011 08:00 PM                        You know you're a Projectionist when... you're either unemployed or about to be.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 06-04-2011 09:35 PM                      |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2011 08:15 PM                        Bump. For those who care, I finally dug up these tapes and converted them to WAV files. Hatke alarm bells (2 takes) (~1MB) Hatke alarm bells with projector running (~500K) [ 09-03-2011, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-01-2011 09:58 PM                        Scott....very cool. Made me jump up looking to strike the arc!  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-03-2011 08:29 PM                     You can time 18 frames in your head.  |  IP: Logged Robby Golosino Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Davao City, Philippines Registered: Jun 2011 posted 09-03-2011 10:27 PM                     you know you're a projectionist when you stole your son's remote control car and modify it to drive a motor contactor so that when rewinding is done...you switch it off with remote lazily...just what i did...last month, and my son cries the whole day that i had to buy some new remote controlled car....lol...  |  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 09-04-2011 02:51 AM                     ... you can sleep with your Century and your Simplex doesn't get jealous.  |  IP: Logged Joris Springer Film Handler Posts: 83 From: Almere, Flevoland, The Netherlands Registered: Feb 2007 posted 09-15-2011 06:07 PM                     you miss the noise of the projector when the booth is already digital for that screen.  |  IP: Logged Walter Rabey Film Handler Posts: 14 From: Canada Registered: Nov 2010 posted 09-17-2011 09:44 PM                    You know your a projectionist when... You have that little scar on your hand from when the splicer bit you.  |  IP: Logged John Stevens Film Handler Posts: 6 From: Whitianga, New Zealand Registered: Mar 2009 posted 07-21-2012 05:46 AM                     ...When you can read all of the pages in this topic and at the end have to wipe the tears from your eyes(due to laughing so much)because it is all true. My son wrapped his mothers last Birthday present with a ribbon of.......pink leader., I have trl cores at home, why....kids play with them. ...you sit in the cinema squirmimg in your seat because the person working for you so you can watch a movie with your wife is screwing up the presentaion!! ...your wife gives up coming to the movies with you because you are always up in the box fixing the sound or adjusting the lens. Thanks soo much for this topic...pure classic moments  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-21-2012 08:13 AM                     When the tech from Christie spends all day setting up your new DLP projector then, when he's done, everybody gathers at the back of the auditorium to look at the picture, they marvel at how "great" the picture looks. You stand there and look but don't say a single word until they turn and ask you, "Doesn't that look great?" You know you're a projectionist when you lie and say, "It looks good."  |  IP: Logged

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