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Author Topic: Theatre Dress Codes Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-19-2001 02:20 PM                        Actually at UA we had cool black polo shirts designed by Ian that said "United Artists Projection & Sound" on the back. This was good enough for a few years, but then we were made to wear the typical purple and green UA uniforms.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-20-2001 12:18 AM                        Rothafel had the projectionists at the Roxy wear lab coats. I think Ben Hall said that it made them look like brain surgeons. Probably a good uniform would be radiation suits & xenon bulb face shields at all times. That'll stir the bowels of the porthole-peekers.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 09-25-2001 10:59 PM                     I think projectionists should not allow themselves to wear a necktie or long untied hair in the booth for obvious safety reasons. I remember one projectionist who got her hair caught in the motor drive belt. She grabbed the flywheel and stripped a fibre gear or shear pin and wasn't badly hurt. Oh, all right, maybe a bow tie wouldn't get caught in the rewind, projector or makeup table, but who'd want to wear one in the booth? --Gerard  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-26-2001 01:10 AM                        Who'd want to wear a bow tie for any reason? Or a regular tie for that matter? I guess I'm just not a "dress up" kind of guy.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-26-2001 02:22 AM                     "Probably a good uniform would be radiation suits & xenon bulb face shields at all times. That'll stir the bowels of the porthole-peekers." Anyone know where I can get a radiation suit? This is now a must have!  |  IP: Logged Jerry Chase Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1068 From: Margate, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-26-2001 09:30 AM                       Full bootied and hooded cleanroom suits are commonly available. I think Kimberly-Clark makes disposable ones. Check with most any uniform or commercial paper supplier and I'm sure you can find one. What I think would be a hoot is to wash one of these in a phosphorescent paint solution, then stand in front of a bank of fluorescents to charge the thing, and casually walk out of the booth (glowing brightly) into the dark auditorium, mumbling under your breath "Damn defective gieger counter! I can't believe this cheap company, how do they expect me to check those xenon bulbs?"  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 09-26-2001 10:32 AM                     Only one mention of footwear in this thread? Here's something to go with your florescent radiation suit: When I worked a Redstone-managed megaplex(14 auditoriums), the booth was 160 YARDS long. What was once a projectionist's joke became my reality. I donned a pair of old roller rink shoe skates with rubber bumper blocks that enabled me to move quickly fron #1 to # 14, toe down and rise up on those blocks to thread up without sliding! The vinyl floor tiles gave sufficient vibration to provide gentle massage most welcome in this marathon booth. (The manager, probably embarrassed that a single operator had to work all 14, would only lamely give out to my relief projectionist that it wouldn't look good to Workers' Compensation if I were to have an accident in the booth.)  |  IP: Logged

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