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Thomas King
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 119
From: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 11-04-2004 10:58 PM
Hello! I've been lurking around for a while, and thought I should introduce myself. I'm from Sheffield, the beating heart of England's defunct steel trade. At the moment I'm kind of in charge of a small (390 seats) independent cinema based in the University's Union of Students. We have a Cinemeccanica Victoria 5 (and platter) as well as a Dolby CP500 and lots of other random things. Because we're staffed by students, we have quite a fast turnover, people leave to get jobs, lives, that sort of thing, so no-one really knows that much about the equipment. When projecting, I occasionally think of (what I think is) a better way to do something, I ask why it's not done like this and am told "this is the way it's always been done", so I thought I'd come here to pick the brains of some uber-techies, partly because I'm interested, and partly because our kit's currently held together with string. Oh, I'm 20, I study chemical physics, and I make too many oblique Kevin Smith references. I look forward to pestering you all.
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 11-08-2004 12:48 AM
Hi all of you "Film-Rollers" out there! My name is Monte, and I've been this 'crazy' business for 35 years now. I started back in 1969, when I was 18 (have to give my age away like that..). Played with changeover booths with carbon arc lamphouses(which still gives out better light than any xenon light can produce), played with all kinds of machinery, mainly the Simplex, which was from the "Standard" to the "2000Millineum". Ran carbon arc lamps from the pencil sized 7mm to the 13.6mm rotator positives, but never the Simplex Refractor arcs lamps. Ran some nitrate as well(at a drive-in where the snakbar 20 minute reel was completely nitrate-a little bit if a nervous time running that nitrate with light coming from a 11mm rotator positive Ashcraft lamphouse). Just missed the opportunity to learn 15/70IMAX a few years back. Finally learned the new style in 1982 when started to play with Cinemecanicca V-4's and Christie AW-2 platters (I learned later on how awful those AW-2's were after falling in love with the AW3R's). Also ran many-a-35mm MagOptical stereo prints at a theatre palace in my hometown-long before such a thing called "Dolby Stereo". I learned a great deal about this projection trade mainly by studying the repair manuals of all the machines that I worked with. Sound, I learned that from the "tekkies" that would come and service our theatres. I learned through "trial and error" on how things work and the proper way it's supposed to work. Nobody taught me -I taught myself of all the trick and twists of this field. Shoot, eve the fellow who trained me, I had to retrain him as well. There is still lots to learn from all of this as the motion picture medium is gradually changing to the DLP digital presentations. I now am an engineer/projectionist for a small theatre chain here in W. Idaho, called the Reel Theatres.
Monte Fullmer
Company Engineer
Reel Theatres
Boise, Idaho
www.reeltheatres.com
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Michael Coate
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1904
From: Los Angeles, California
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 12-11-2004 05:51 PM
At the urging of a couple of film-tech members, I've decided to post a "Who The Heck Am I" entry. I've read this forum for about four years but for whatever reasons never bothered to let you guys in on who the heck I am. So here goes.
Like a good portion of the film-tech members, I've worked for a few movie theatres in various capacities including usher and, eventually, projectionist and manager. This occured mostly during college (late-80s/early-90s) and shortly following graduation. During that time, I worked for a couple of different companies including United Artists and Wallace.
I've dabbled in film production, spending a couple of years shooting & editing commercials for a small-market TV station and working as a Camera Loader/Second Assistant on music videos, commercials and low-budget films.
At present, I am doing freelance and consulting work, though some of you may recognize me from my time with WIDESCREEN REVIEW magazine, where I was responsible for the gathering and implementation of historical and technology-oriented film research, and contributed an article from time to time. I was with this home theatre publication from 1997 to 2004 and would like to think that, in comparison to the previous "historian's" involvement, I contributed to a marked improvement and reliability in the reporting of film-related information that appeared in the mag.
Currently, I am also involved in a collaboration with a buddy of mine on a movie-themed website project: "From Script To DVD" (http://www.fromscripttodvd.com). The focus of this new site is on film production, exhibition and history with a bit of DVD coverage thrown in for good measure. I imagine the site may interest some of you, so I encourage you to pay a visit when you find a moment. There you'll find a number of historical articles, interviews with filmmaking personalities, schedules of movies and DVDs being released, contests, and some other surprises. What's there right now may seem a bit thin, but we're updating regularly and have a lot of projects in the works for 2005, and, as soon as we've re-constructed our "Links" page, have no fear for Film-Tech will be included.
Hobbies and interests include, of course, watching movies and believing in "Film Done Right" and "The Moviegoing Experience." And, as some of you know by previous postings or by my profile photo, I'm a baseball fan and can proudly lay claim to having attented a game in every Major League U.S. and Canadian city... and have driven through each of the 48 contiguous states in the process. (I'd drive to Hawaii, too, if I could!)
And, finally, during the course of my travels I've had the pleasure of meeting up with a number of film-tech members, including (in alphabetical order):
Bill Carter
Jonathan Crist
Bill Gabel
Rich Greenhalgh
Robert A. Harris
Jeffry Johnson
Jeff Joseph
Steve Kraus
Will Kutler (just kidding ![[Smile]](smile.gif) )
Mark Lensenmayer
Mark Marshall
Gordon McLeod
Kara McVay
Floyd Newton
Jennifer Pan
Ian Price
John Pytlak
Paul Rayton
Michael Schaffer
Mike Schindler
Bob Throop
There you have it. I've contributed a profile photo. I've contributed a "Who The Heck Are You?" post. Now if could just stay out of trouble with the moderators.
>>>Post edited to revise the Film-Techers I've met list<<<
[ 10-19-2005, 02:54 AM: Message edited by: Michael Coate ]
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As for school, its going great. I'm going towards a Media Arts: Computer Art/Illustration Degree. So I'm keeping busy with the whole art thing and I guess as a hobby I do the music thing(working on my sophomore CD). And one of these days I'm going to go to school for film and try that out. Its something I hope will turn out to be a career. Well, if I'm not good at it then its just not worth living I guess ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
j/k. Life is awesome...
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