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Author Topic: Endangered Theatres Around the World Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-11-2017 01:14 AM                        Yup, worked carbons back in 64-69 in a beautiful little 800 seat single screen in Bryan-College Station TX -- the Campus Theatre owned by Bill Schulman. I LOVED working that theatre -- change-over of course and still 2000ft reels. Bill and his family owned had a few other large theatres in Bryan that I subed at and a DI that was the most fun -- we ran Dusk-Till-Dawn shows every other week when A&M as in session -- big ole Ashcrafts...I loved it. I returned to visit a few years later and he had already triplexed his DI, with a central booth and still carbons & 6000ft longplays. I asked him how did that work with only one projectionist and he said, "He's good at math -- he's able to staggers the start times just so, and it works out really well... then he added, "MOST of the time." He admitted he misses on average about 3 change-over a week. He said, he is like lightening and can recover really quickly. No one complains, he said...most of the Aggies are not watching the movies anyway. In the booth I am retiring from, we STILL have carbon arc...never found any good reason to convert because it's a single screen. And carbon arc gives that beautiful light with that big FAT plazma arc that makes it so easy to get edge-to-edge uniformity across the screen. I guess we'll continue to keep everything the way it is until we just can't get film to run any more.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-11-2017 08:10 AM                     I've always believed that the introduction of the xenon lamp was the death knell for projectionists. That with the Union's refusal to consider manager/operator sealed the deal.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 02-13-2017 06:39 PM                        Our Union embraced manager/operator. If you run 12+ hours per day; then carbon is enough higher in cost to pay for new equipment (xenon). Then it pays for itself again each"next" year.  |  IP: Logged

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