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Author Topic: Who the HECK are you?? Daniel Burns Film Handler Posts: 52 From: dallas, TX, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 03-16-2003 07:00 PM                     I've been doing booth for about three years now, workin at Cinemark and AMC, mostly at Mesquite 30. I am currently working as the head projectionist at AMC Parks @ Arlington 18 that just opened in November. If Brad sees this I'd like to see if he could come out and take some pics, and check out AMC's newest that do not have christie lamphouses like Stonebriar 24.  |  IP: Logged Patrick McDonough Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Greenfield Ma. Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-17-2003 02:11 PM                     Projectionist/asst. manager, Greenfield Garden cinemas. 7 screens, 3 DTS theaters.  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-20-2003 07:32 AM                        Gunnar Johansson, Head of cinema in LoB (Ljud- och Bildgruppen) (Sound and picturegroup) in charge primarily of the technical side. Studying for a Master of Science and Engineering in Engineering Physics. One theatre at our Student Union building, at Chalmers Gothenburg, Sweden, seating ~250. Been with LoB for about a year, head of cinema since august and built the theatre for opening january... //Gunnar  |  IP: Logged Laurence Till Film Handler Posts: 6 From: Manville, RI 02838 Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-22-2003 01:01 PM                     The quote on Paul Goulet's last post "Two-Tone, is that you?" was what he once said to a "Wine Goddess" at the Bacchanal in Caesar's Palace during a previous ShoWest whileshe was giving him a back rub. I couldn't understand it. She was beautiful and kept his wine goblet full. She must have been doing her job too well. Two-Tone is Paul's dalmation!!!  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-27-2003 12:56 PM                     I'm BATMAN /\O/\  |  IP: Logged Randy Bowden Expert Film Handler Posts: 146 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-27-2003 06:24 PM                     Shop Repair Technician for American Cinema Equipment. I Rebuild projectors and Intermittents full time. All makes and models for the past 6 or 7 years. Started out in 1992 as a projectionist with ACT 3 Theatres.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-27-2003 07:07 PM                        I am Auditor for Century Theatres by day. By night -- I am part of the top secret elite task force who goes around taking pictures of every movie theatre known to man kind. I also inspect Chick-Fil-A throughout the Southland on such a super secret mission that it only exists in my head. Oh my -- I need to get something to do right now.  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-06-2003 04:26 PM                        HEy, Scott, your an Auditor Hmm SO ' ME COME HUNT YOU DOWN! ' BUT I really think you hate Audior's too. Auditor's Suck,blow & are wankers ('wanker' means act tuff, gunna get ya - and play with PVT bits) And proberly have a wank after they busted you (well me) for not doing a safe count on the first day of LOTR2 (PPL everywhere)first thing in the morning and the safe balanced but I had not put it to Paper. (seems computer files do not count) Needless to say, I just run bio now, THANKFULLY!! - no more bio/mgr which paid no extra cash! Bill!  |  IP: Logged Brian Zeisler Film Handler Posts: 39 From: West Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-12-2003 04:37 AM                     -brian zeisler -projectionist for cascade drive-in theater -west chicago, il -been there for a few days -also worked at just about every theater chain in the chicago burbs. been working off and on in the theater industry for about 6 years.  |  IP: Logged Andrei Mihailescu Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Bucharest, Romania Registered: Apr 2003 posted 04-12-2003 09:10 AM                     I'm one of those dreaded film school ex-students, studied film editing and sound design. I don't have anything to do with film projection in particular other than being a regular movie goer, but in my defense I did splice "real" film on the flatbed, not just in an Avid and I improvised a surround sound setup in my university to upgrade the old mono system we had there. Now I work in a post-production company, doing mostly broadcast work, compositing & motion graphics stuff, but I do miss film. I am also a long time lurker around the Film Tech forums, which is a goldmine of great technical information and cinema history. I'll probably have some questions from time to time, hopefully you'll suffer an outsider. Cheers, Andrei Mihailescu  |  IP: Logged Brent Mahaney Film Handler Posts: 43 From: Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 04-13-2003 07:33 PM                    I started out in this industry in December of 1991 working as a lowly usher at a six screen Carmike that was formerly owned by AMC. Within six weeks I was running the booth and learning about management from the assistant. I left for several years to operate my family's golf course. Then in 2000, a company called Aliance Entertainment built a 12-screen in town...Great Escape Theatres, and my former assistant manager from 10 years earlier called me and told me he would be managing it and he asked me to come aboard as a booth supervisor. I did because I really, really enjoy working projection. After about a year and a half, for some unknown reason, I accepted the assistant position. It's not that I need the money, it's that I had been there from day one and I wanted to help clean up the mess that was allegedly left by the previous assistant. We tightened the screws and have been running smoothly ever since. I have put a lot of time and effort into my work, and although it tends not to be appreciated, my reward is that I have earned the respect of the complex manager and the employees because they have seen how hard I work to make us the best theatre in the region. As far as this industry goes, I love it and I hate it. I know that makes sense to everybody.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Fuentz Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Fresno, CA, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 04-14-2003 04:36 AM                     I currently work as a graphic designer/audio operator/master control operator for a TV station here in Fresno. I have loved going to the movies for as long as I can remember, even though majority of my early moviegoing experiences were at the dump of a bargain theater that existed here in town! I've always been curious about the inner workings of a movie theater. As a small, irritating child I used to stand on the seats before the movie, trying to glimpse inside the booth. However, I was never able to get a very good view!  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 04-17-2003 09:12 PM                        I founded The BigScreen Cinema Guide back in January of 1995 (it was called the Penguin Cinema Guide back then). We're based in New Berlin, Wisconsin, which is a suburb of Milwaukee. The object was to provide movie showtimes on the "then new" mainstream Internet, and to help people appreciate and recognize good presentations when they see and hear them. For the first couple of years, I entered in all the showtime data by hand. First by transcribing the newspaper ads each week, later by receiving faxes directly from theaters. That got old once we started listing schedules for more than just the theaters in the Milwaukee, WI area... I'm an avid movie fan, getting to the movies when possible, watching even more movies in my home theater setup. I founded the newsgroups alt.home-theater.misc/.announce/.marketplace back in 1995, when I was naive enough to think that unmoderated discussion forums could be self-moderated by mainstream masses. After 6.5 years of leading the web design team at an ISP that changed hands and changed names more often than I wish to count, I'm now living my dream of self-employment doing web design and technology consulting. After twelve years of doing it (consulting, web design since '94) as a side-job, I figured I would take it out for a spin and see what I can do with it full-time. The BigScreen Cinema Guide is an independent publication, completely financed by me personally. As such, we don't represent any theater or chain directly, but we do pride ourselves in working hand-in-hand with theaters to provide their customers the best service possible. We also believe that it's the best publication of its kind for our readers, but I'm a little biased! In joining this forum, I hope to learn more about what it's like to work in the industry. I've made many contacts at theaters over the years, and I've found people who care very much about their jobs and the presentations they give their customers (I've also found some who couldn't care less). The more I learn about what matters to the people who do care, perhaps the better I can make the services that I offer to theaters and our readers. [ 04-17-2003, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Scott Jentsch ]  |  IP: Logged Kamakshipalya Dhananjay Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Bangalore, India Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-19-2003 01:09 AM                     My name is DHANANJAY. Or more accurately KAMAKSHIPALYA DHANANJAY. I or rather our family owns two theatres in BANGALORE, INDIA. I take care of these between time for my profession. These theatres : VEERESH Capacity : BALCONY : 362 Seats FIRST CLASS : 684 Seats FRONT CLASS : 106 Seats. No.1 First Cross MAGADI MAIN ROAD BANGALORE 560 079 KARNATAKA INDIA Phone : 91 80 3350455 Mobile : 91 9448061799 Started : 1973 by my family. I am 29 years old now. VISHAL THEATRE No.318 KAMAKSHIPALYA MAGADI MAIN ROAD BANGALORE 560 079 KARNATAKA INDIA Phone : 91 80 3486997 Started : 1982 by my family.  |  IP: Logged Scott Manley Film Handler Posts: 59 From: Austin, TX USA Registered: May 2001 posted 04-19-2003 11:06 PM                     I started as an usher for a local theater chain here in Austin Tx. I got interested in film when the union operator (the only one in the chain) would show me how to thread the film and put on a good presentation. This wasn't as easy as it is now. The only automation in the booth was the failsafe. Everything else was manual, lights douser and sound. I guess I loved it since I would go up there on my own time and just run the movies. I did this for a couple months until a sudden opening came up at one of the theaters. All of a sudden I was getting paid to show movies. I thought this was so cool. The theater chain grew somewhat. We were the first theater with a CP-50 in Austin. I was real lucky to be working for some great people at the company. They sent me to a couple Dolby seminars. The first one was in San Francisco. I went on to install booths for the theaters. Oh....the chain was Presidio Theaters. Back in the 80's they did get some national press. We did build some nice theaters. I worked for Presidio for 13 yrs. Until it was bought by another chain. I stayed on for another year until I was let go. I spent a year in Fla. working for a service company that serviced Cobb Theaters. I had the theaters on the east coast. From Fla I moved on to California. I started working for Iwerks Entertainment. I started there working with their demo theaters. Kinda grunt work but it was great training on the large format systems as well as the simulator systems. I worked there for appx. 5 yrs. I went on the install several systems around the world from Montreal to North Ireland. It was worth it just for all the free vacations. I worked for a while for Sony Theaters in New Jersey. Servicing theaters in NJ,and NY. And as strange as it sounds I went back to work for Iwerks. Only not an employee but doing contract work for them. Doing Service and installing different types systems. I now am doing work with Iwerks....although that is sporadic. And I do work for an old friend from back in my Presidio days and doing service work for theaters around Texas. (always room for more) So that is my story......most of the name are real and have not been changed to protect the innocent. Guess working for free to learn how to thread wasn't a bad idea afterall.  |  IP: Logged

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