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Topic: I get to see a carbon arc setup!
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Charles Greenlee
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From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 06-29-2006 11:59 PM
Ahh, we have platter stands, and xenon bulbs. Even then, when I was working 11 screens, the show times could land right where it was hard to get a break, sometimes barely even enough time to dust out the gates. Then you get a nice gap and....they send you on a meal break. Of course I did more than most of the other projectionists, which all they ever did was thread and press start. But yeah, once you develop a rhythm for that week's shows, it's easy. I'd love to get back to basics and try my hands at a carbon arc house that runs a changeover. It'd allow me to get a better grasp of where things came from. BTW, how does the carbon arc compare to the xenon as far as picture, brightnes, and color?
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 06-30-2006 05:13 AM
quote: Floyd Justin Newton
Everyone above: I concure with everything that all of you have
said. In my 35+ years of operating Ashcraft Super Cinex carbon
lamps (13.6mm @ 180 Amps) and sometimes 195 Amps for Studio
Previews, I've only operated xenon on a couple occasions.
Floyd, what's the difference between the Super Cinex and the Super Core-lite? They look very similar in photographs.
quote: John Walsh
It is fun to see or operate carbon arc setups; it reminds you of the days when operators really 'worked.'
John, mining coal is hard work, stoking a pair of Lancashire boilers was hard work, deal portering was hard work, carrying hods full of bricks up ladders on a building site is hard work and, a bit nearer to home, rigging a stage for a big rock concert is hard work. Lacing up a reel of film and pressing a couple of buttons every twenty minutes, plus occasionally adjusting a lamp cannot be seriously described as hard work. Carrying the prints up several flights of stairs in an old-style theatre could be hard work, but at least with a single screen there were't many prints to deal with.
A projectionist in a modern multiplex, with many screens to look after, sometimes in several different projection rooms, and with possibly dozens of different prints to move about, carry up and down stairs, make up and break down has to work much harder.
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Mark Ogden
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From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-30-2006 06:37 AM
quote: Carl Martin
the uc closed in 2001 or thereabouts. do you recall when you went there, and what the film was?
I saw Picnic at Hanging Rock there the last time it was revived, sometime in the late 90s. The fellow was very thin with a mustache and light wavy hair. We just spoke briefly, he was on his way out to get a bite to eat between shows, but he seemed pleasent. Probably the man you mentioned. I remember walking from there down to the Reel Movie video store afterward, if that helps with the time line. The Act One and Two were still open as well.
Damn shame this place is closed, it was a beautiful venue.
But looking back, I must have had a mind fart when I posted that this was the last changeover show I saw, because in retrospect, I have seen and still do see quite a few. Everything at the Walter Reade theatre at Lincoln Center and the Titus Theatre at MOMA are pretty much run changeover style. Also, the Castro in San Francisco and the Aero in Santa Monica still spin reels, and I get there whenever I can. I'm sure I've seen others.
And Mitch, thanks for the invite re: the Loews Jersey. Weekend nights are tough for me work wise, but I am determined to get there again at some point. I saw Forbidden Planet there years ago, the show with the original Perspecta sound processor, but I was with a gang of people and didn't come up to look.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 06-30-2006 07:24 AM
quote: Mark Ogden
And Mitch, thanks for the invite re: the Loews Jersey. Weekend nights are tough for me work wise, but I am determined to get there again at some point. I saw Forbidden Planet there years ago, the show with the original Perspecta sound processor, but I was with a gang of people and didn't come up to look.
Mark, that show was in april 2002, the last weekend of the month, I think; I was there too. I was taken 'upstairs', and also 'downstairs' for a look round one evening, a few days before {looks in passport} I think it was the 23rd, the day I arrived. I've been up in the box there once more since then, I think it was one year later, when Scott Norwood was also there.
I've also been up to the box at the Lafayette, Suffern NY, but not the UCAC, Rahway NJ.
Where is Little Falls, by the way?
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
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posted 06-30-2006 12:26 PM
quote: Stephen Furley
I wanted to have a look at that place, but Rome doesn't seem to be easy to get to; trains are not very frequent. It would mean an overnight stay; are there any cheap hotels nearby?
Rome NY is between Syracuse and Albany, near Utica, and near the Turning Stone Casino and Boxing Hall of Fame. Just drove near there last weekend, on the way back to Rochester from Boston. Driving rainstorm all the way, and as you may have heard, the flooding closed the NY Thruway (US Interstate 90) for a day or so.
Rome would be an easy day trip from Rochester, if you come here to visit the George Eastman House museum.
http://romesentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
http://www.innsmart.com/newyork/central/html/oneida.html
http://when-in-rome.com/RomeChamber/summary.html
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A city of 72 square miles in upstate New York, Rome is in western Oneida County and part of the Mohawk River Valley.
The city of Syracuse is approximately 50 miles to the west; Utica, about 15 miles to the east; and Albany, about 90 miles to the east.
Part of the gateway to the Adirondack Mountains, Oneida County is situated with three exits (31, 32, 33) on the New York State Thruway (I-90). Other major highways serving the region are New York State Routes 5, 8, 12, 20, 26, 46, 49, 69, 365, and 825; Interstate Routes 81 and 87 provide access north and south with connections via Syracuse and Albany respectively, a short distance away.
Twenty percent of the U.S. population lives within 300 miles of the Mohawk Valley, with four of the most populous U.S. cities within 250 miles: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.
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