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Author Topic: Catch Me If You Can Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 02-08-2003 04:41 PM                     Can anyone provide any information on the artist who sang the song "Don't Rain On My Parade" which was featured on the "Catch Me If you Can" trailer and almost the end of the movie?.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-09-2003 04:04 PM                     I don't think it is the Bobby Darin version from American Beauty & it's definitely not the Barbrs Streisand version from Funny girl.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 02-09-2003 05:41 PM                     When I saw CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, I spent the first 20 minutes discussing with the theatre manager about the fuzzy, no-contrast image they projected on their 60-ft.-screen. It`s unbelievable what moviegoers will tolerate before they start complaining. They tried to focus it, and just when I proposed to go to the booth to show them the fingerprint on the lens back, the "senior technician" appeared, got pale when he saw the screen image and ran to the booth. He returned and apologized about "problems with the staff". So I don`t know about the first 20 minutes, but the rest of it was fun, although I agree with what Brad wrote about the fuzzy photography. The image was mostly fine-grained but lacked definition. Besides, I don`t like light comedy being shot too dark.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-10-2003 11:00 AM                        quote: ...when I proposed to go to the booth to show them the fingerprint on the lens back, the "senior technician" appeared, got pale when he saw the screen image and ran to the booth. He returned and apologized about "problems with the staff". Film Done Wrong. At least they had a "senior technician" on duty, who understood the problem and fixed it.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 02-10-2003 03:48 PM                     Well, when the manager spoke to the "junior technician" (or whatever they call him) on the intercom, that guy fiddled around with the focus knob and said "Now it should be OK!". What made me really mad is that after he had been informed about the problem, he was unable to locate a fat fingerprint illuminated by 4.5 kilowatts of xenon light!  |  IP: Logged John Spooner Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: South Australia, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-11-2003 11:47 AM                     Assuming the lenses were mounted in a turret, the "operator" must be clumsy to put a large fingerprint onto the lens element. John Spooner.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 02-11-2003 04:36 PM                     Don`t bet on it. Once upon a time, I worked part-time in a theatre that had two operators, one of them lazy, the other one very skilled. I could always tell when the Bad Guy had been there because he left half a thumbprint on the lens close to that which had been used last. The projector was a Bauer U4C 35/70mm with a (non-automated) revolver. Any time the Bad Guy changed the lenses, he gripped the lens next to him so stupid that there had to be a fingerprint. When he finally left the theatre, first thing we did was change the lenses. There was virtually no coating left because of the constant fingerprint/cleaning action. But regarding the CATCH ME... experience: You are right, it might have been some other kind of grease. I`ve seen projectionists clean the gate with paper towels that had grease or dirt on the reverse side, so it would touch the back of the lens. Sad but true.  |  IP: Logged John Spooner Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: South Australia, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-12-2003 09:35 AM                     The point about the gate cleaning and the greasy cloth was good. We do not have turrets in our theatres which makes it simple, so I remove the lens at the end of the film prior to cleaning the aperture area. Then there is no possibility of grease or suchlike getting onto the rear element.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-13-2003 08:22 AM                        "Lens Cleaning" by Schnieder Optics: http://www.schneideroptics.com/info/white_papers/lens_cleaning.pdf "Lens Cleaning" by Edmund Optics: http://www.edmundoptics.com/TechSupport/DisplayArticle.cfm?articleid=265 Another link: http://medfmt.8k.com/broncleaningp.html  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2003 02:03 PM                     Ok, this is now 7 posts in a row that are NOT movie reviews. Take it into one of the other forums please.  |  IP: Logged Arthur Allen Film Handler Posts: 99 From: Renton, WA, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 02-27-2003 06:44 PM                        Sort of on topic. In the afterword of the new paperback version of the book, they list Frank Abagnale's post-prison cycle of getting entry level jobs at retail and being fired once his employers are about to promote him but then look closer at his past. He finally worked as a projectionist, where the book quotes him, quote: I was making good money, but there I was, five nights a week, sitting in this small room, with nothing to do, really, save to watch the same movie over and over again. I thought to myself that I was smarter than that, that I was ignoring and wasting real talents that I possessed. It was then that he got the idea to lecture to bank employees on check security.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 02-28-2003 09:04 PM                        I had understood that he worked for the FBI after his criminal career was over.  |  IP: Logged Arthur Allen Film Handler Posts: 99 From: Renton, WA, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 03-08-2003 07:17 PM                        There were lots of differences between the book and the movie. I guess they thought it would speed things up in the movie if Frank got hired by the FBI right out of prison. I don't recall Frank peeling labels off bottles in the book, but the flight attendant front happened in both versions. He didn't do it to create a distraction, but more for the challenge of it. It paid off better in the book, while the movie the individual "students" were simply forgotten.  |  IP: Logged

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