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Florian Pausch
Film Handler
Posts: 11
From: Wien, Austria
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 07-26-2000 06:14 PM
Hello, everybody,
my name is Florian Pausch, I work as projectionist and cinema technician at "Filmarchiv Austria", the austrian national film archive for almost three years now. At the moment we are running a temporary open-air cinema at our premises, including a restored tent bioscope from the 1910´s (equipped with one Ernemann "Imperator" and one Ernemann "Jubiläum" from that time, fully manual carbon arcs, hand cranking...)
I am responsible for our huge collection of cinematographic equipment, reaching from the pre-cinema era to Dolby CP 200 and Bauer U2.
In our depot there is also the last remaining Western Electric "Universal" Base in Austria, waiting to see the light of an exhibition...
Before coming to FAA, I was the technical head of the leading arthouse cinema in Vienna ("Votiv-Kino", then 2 screens)for seven years and tried hard to get more quality into their screenings (recreating the "smooth" style of showing films, avoiding remarkable "edges" in the show, using curtains (also between trailers and feature film), gong, coloured light and training several young -interested- people in the skills that I had learned from the old projectionists. When the company decided to build a third screen, I left this cinema, because I could not guarantee the same quality of work to "my" public.
Privately I collect projectors (what else ?),especially "Friedl-Chaloupka", the one and only Viennese sound projector firm, which were produced from 1935 to 1979, including such fine things like a combined 35/16 using the same optical axis and the same maltese gear. Together with my wife I own a "Kinomobil", a truck with two "Friedl-Chaloupka" in it for mobile open air projections - Dolby SR included, max screen width is 14 meters. Playing "Titanic" for 1200 shivering people in a rather cold night in August was one of our finest shows last year.
So, you see, the projecting-virus infected even my family...
So long,
Flo
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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 07-26-2000 07:11 PM
I am the goon listed on the left.I am the tech for a small audio-visual supply company here in Asheville, NC. We're the only game in town. We supply equipment to hotels for company meetings, etc, then after they finish, go pick it up. This job leaves me with plenty of time for collecting and rebuilding equipment as I am "on call" basically all the time. I can work on cars and have rebuilt the engine in my truck, I have had jobs in the past where I worked on Washers, Dryers, Dishwashers, Exercise equipment, Garage door openers, TV's, VCR's, Camcorders (including BETA) Home stereo equipment, Heating (all types of home furnaces, oil, gas, forced air, hot water, steam) Cooling (Freon, and ammonia.) I prowl the city looking for window air conditioners, and other things that have been trashed to repair and sell for a small profit. I am 43, eternally single. Who'd have me and all this collected stuff in my house, which, by the way, I own, and have rewired, replumbed, and installed all HVAC systems... I have collected film since 1972 when I was given a box of TV "spots" for features that I loaded onto a 1600' reel and played to death. I was "geek boy" in high school. I had horrible eyesight and wore the thickest glasses. I tended to stay home alot. Then, I discovered film companies that ran ads in the classifieds in photography mags. I bought TV shows from them. In 1976, I went to work in independent TV in Nashville where I became film director in 1980. My collection grew when I aquired the library of film as the contracts ran out and were not renewed. From May of 1977, until June of '82, I worked at the fabulous Skyway Drive-In theater where I got my first taste of 35mm, and carbon arcs. I moved to Atlanta in 1982 and continued to piddle in TV. I had my eyes operated on while there. (Radial Keratotamy Surgery) The collection grew to over 450 features, and 60 TV series by 1993. I worked for Sears for 4 years doing in-home service, and ignoring the collection. In 1997, I found that vinegar had attacked the collection, and that some of the features and TV shows were fading fast. I trashed hundreds of VS films at the landfill. In 1998, I discovered the internet and all you cool people. I unloaded the bulk of what was left of my 16mm collection and started collecting 35mm, a threesome of Holmes 8 35mm portables turned up... I got them, rebuilt them, and the rest is not exciting. I currently have 118 features, and 3 TV shows and 3 cartoons (One is IB) on 35. I collect and restore old 16mm projectors (Victors, RCA's, Natco's etc.) and run them in the rare cases when we are required to supply projectors for clients. My day job has me running LCD projectors for computer displays and demos, and my night life is the movies. I'd work at a local theater, but I'd starve on what they want to pay!!! I am currently reassembling 80 35mm features that were being trashed by the distributors. Each feature averages 3-4 hours of work. My Marble splicer (used, of course) is smoking!  I could not be happier. Of all the folk on this site, the only one I have met in person is David Koegel. He is one of the funniest people that I have ever known. AND He's more of a film junkie than I am, if that is possible! Bruce McGee PS: I have not worn glasses at all since 1982.
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Phil Connolly
Film Handler
Posts: 80
From: Derby, England
Registered: May 2000
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posted 07-28-2000 09:54 AM
Hi,I'm a total film fanatic and will travel great distances to see films. I'm currently working for a production company we do some film work, but most stuff is video. We do have a nice digital imaging camera for making those advertising slides you all hate so much.
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Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-30-2000 07:04 PM
Thanx, MartinChanged over a bit too early - please read answer in topic "hmm" xxl
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "A hole is hole is a hole" Colonel Smith aka R. Burton during a vinter stay in Bavaria (-remember...?)
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Dave Bird
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 777
From: Perth, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 07-30-2000 07:45 PM
Bird, Dave Bird. I sell food. I travel great distances to enjoy good drive-ins and old indoors. Have always been fascinated with "putting on a show" and tinkering, so when I found out a drive-in not far away was being gutted, I bought her! Also nearly bought an actual outdoor, but I don't know the equipment, so I'm going to do that first.
Missed my chance to save a classic nearby, perhaps someday do as Barry Floyd is doing and build one. Clean washrooms, no ads ('cept those cheezy old generic ones plugging the snack bar!), cartoons and always a double feature, that'll be my formula. I enjoy the fact that many of you experts recall fondly starting out at the old drive-in. They were (are) a lot of fun, weren't they?------------------
Dave Bird
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Scott Magie
Film Handler
Posts: 73
From: St. Albans, VT USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 07-31-2000 02:30 AM
1994- Move to Muncie, IN from Adams, MA to go to college for architecture.1995- Spend summer in Surfside Beach, SC on a leadership training program with Great Commission Ministries.
- Decide to pursue dream of making movies. 1996- Pack all my belongings into my '73 SuperBeetle and drive to Bozeman, MT to go to film school
- Get job as projectionist/concessionist/cashier at the PROCRASTINATOR THEATRE, an on-campus second-run out of a miniscule booth in an academic auditorium. (spend 8 hours untangling thrown print of "Courage Under Fire") 1997- Get another job at Carmike in Bozeman... concessions, ushering, and lots of free movies 1998- big promotion to cashier... no raise.
- spend summer in Carolina Beach, NC trying to work on films in Wilmington. End up as an extra in a tv-movie. Build swimming pools for "Darryl The Pool-Man" and work at a sea-food place that caters to the bad-tipping crowd... (I hate seafood.)
- return to Montana and find myself promoted to projectionist at Carmike. 1999- promoted to booth manager/relief manager at Carmike. Instituted an Adopt-A-Projector program in which each projectionist was in charge of a projector and submitted cleaning checklists weekly.
- This is the most employee initiative that's been seen at Carmike since the formation of the company, so they promote me to (music please) "Manager-In-Training".
- Graduate with honors and a degree in Media and Theatre Arts... Motion Picture & Video Production.
- Accept manager position at 6-screen Carmike in Missoula, MT (work 90 hrs/week for first month)
2000- Spend New Year's Eve at the theatre. No power failure. No chaos. No hang-over.
- Sell SuperBeetle (sob) and move to Vermont to run an independent theatre for an owner that actually appreciates the work I do and pays me for it. 
I'm now paying off debts while writing the all-american screenplay in my "free-time".
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Scott A. Magie scoooot@hotmail.com
"Anybody wanna peanut?"
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Chris Erwin
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 195
From: Olive Hill,KY
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 08-03-2000 08:57 PM
I'm Chris Erwin,from a little town called Olive Hill,KY (90 miles east of Lexington). I worked for Chakeres Theaters out of Spingfield,OH for a year or two just to be in the biz. I worked at the University Cinema in Morehead,KY. I now work at a distribution center for Family Dollar Stores as a computer operator. My hobbies are music,films,and B&W photography. I used to be a radio dj,a mobile dj (weddings,etc.),and was network adm. for a bank. I love the outdoor theater and hope to work or own one sometime in life.
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 08-04-2000 10:11 PM
Updated 9 July 2007
Presently I am freelancing, just barely maintaining a presence in this business by helping out once in a great while with theatre service and inspection work, and video projection here in Sin City, in the Neon National Forest.
Otherwise I am an aircraft maintenance planner for Allegiant Air, Las Vegas' hometown airline. I am also a part-time Japanese language tutor at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) working with students taking 1st- and 2nd-year courses. Previously (1992-1994) I taught Japanese conversation classes (JPN101B), and (2003-2006) aviation technology classes there as well.
Prior to this (1998-2001) I worked in aerospace as a software engineer for PanAmSat Space Operations in Long Beach, CA. I also worked for Hughes Communications and Hughes Aircraft Company Space and Communications Group in El Segundo, CA (1984-1987) as a spacecraft controller, shift leader, training coordinator, customer support engineer, and acting flight director. We built and flew the first Galaxy series communications satellites, the descendants of which continue to carry most of the cable TV feeds in the US today.
In a previous life (1980-1982, 1992) I was a professional pilot, last flying DHC-6-300 Twin Otters on Grand Canyon air tours. Prior to that I flew tours, charters, night cargo, air ambulance, and prisoner transfers part-time in variety of single and twin-engine Cessnas and Pipers, including the pressurized Piper Aerostar. Ah the life of a gypsy pilot building flight time towards a dream airline job.
In yet another previous life I spent 20 years (1974-1994) as a member of IATSE Local 720 here. Being a member of a mixed local like 720 allowed me to work a wide variety of part-time jobs, but my specialties were stage electric (mostly as a followspot operator, cue caller, and board operator) and sound (FOH or monitor mixer), film/video projection, and broadcast/industrial video (VC, A2, tapeworm, TD) in Las Vegas and SoCal. Eventually I became a department head or acting stage manager at several Las Vegas hotels. I really had it made back then - got paid to do what I loved to do, and it paid for college and flight training.
First hands-on film experience was 16mm - Kalart-Victor 15-70's in junior high school. First 35mm - a pair of Century SAs w/Peerless Magnarcs and Panatars at the now long defunct Toho LaBrea in LA, were I spent my summer vacations. While in high school I got to operate a pair of Norelco AA-IIs w/Strong Futura IIs at the long-gone Fox Charleston Plaza Mall here, as well as a three-screen interlocked Ace/Brenkert set-up for the Tropicana Hotel's Folies Bergere. That booth also featured a pair of my favorite followspots - Genarco Metros! To say nothing of the Century Izenour 10-preset, 48-thyratron tube dimmer console!
First 70mm - A Westrex (later a AA-II) with fish-eye lens running a portable dome show called "Thrillsphere" which played the fair/exhibition circuits of the US and Canada in 1975 and '76. Much later I was on staff at the now defunct (is there a pattern emerging here?) Caesars Palace Omnimax running both IMAX Dome (2D) and Showscan.
My mentor through those years was Mr. Art Schruhl. He came to 'Vegas from Charleston, WV in the early '50s after his drive-in there got flooded out...twice! But his setback was my gain, for he was more of a father to me than either my dad or any of my stepdads were - he taught me his craft and sponsored me into his guild. Memories of him live within me every time I put a moving image up on a big big screen.
During those years I also tried to give back to the craft by being an instructor in Local 720's training program. I was that program's first spotlight operation instructor in 1983 and the video projection/engineering instructor from 1989 to 1992. Copies of my speaking notes and video tape presentations have been used over the years by several other IATSE locals.
Most-fun gig - probably as location dailies projectionist for the movie Casino during the winter of '94-'95 here. In a warehouse on Highland Dr. that served as our production office we built a little screening room (20 seats, 5x12' screen) that could run anything from mono optical 1.37, through 1.85 and anamorphic, to double-system Super 35 (2.39 non-anamorphic) using a pair of Judy Dolan's modified Simplex XLs and ORC RPS-2500 lamps. Ever the film buff, Mr. Scorsese had me running film noir classics for the staff when we weren't looking at dailies or rough cuts for Sharon Stone's The Quick and the Dead.
Unfortunately, working that gig got me into political trouble with several rival factions within Local 720, and I became a target for increased personal harassment both on and off the job. Seems I wasn't in the right clique to be working on movies despite the fact that I was the only local double-system qualified projectionist available at the time. At the end of 1994 (the same year I earned a 20-year pin) I withdrew my membership in protest and was subsequently blacklisted by the Local. By 1997 I was totally out of the business, unable to get stage, TV or film work in either the union or non-union worlds.
Working with film is really just a hobby for me now - even with the occasional DCMI inspection gigs I don't do it enough to really call it work anymore. I am a former member of the SMPTE Hollywood Section and the American Cinematheque and will rejoin both someday when I can afford it again.
In the mean time I'm active with the local JACL (Japanese American Citizens League), and soon the JASN (Japan America Society of Nevada) and the local Buddhist Sangha. Starting last year I began programming and MCing a Japanese film series for the JACL, screening titles that never made it to 'Vegas during their art-house runs, especially feature-length anime titles (yeah, I'm an over-aged otaku too - deal with it). I have given talks on anime as the latest Japanese pop-cultural export, and have participated in exhibitions featuring Japanese theatrical film and anime posters from my collection.
Even though I am finally back to working full-time at a company and in an industry I love very much, I continue to look for ways to eventually return to full-time living and working and studying in my beloved and native SoCal. I plan to earn an M.A. or M.S. in Japanese Linguistics from UCLA some day.
Don't ask me how I got here - my degrees are a B.S. in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), and an A.A.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology from CSN (nee CCSN, nee CCCC). Licenses and certificates include FAA Airline Transport Pilot (AMEL, ASEL), Commercial Pilot (ASES, Glider), Ground Instructor (Advanced and Instrument), and FCC General Radiotelephone w/Ship Radar Endorsement. Somewhere in there I also did 31 years as a volunteer in the USAF Auxiliary (CAP) retiring in 1999 as a Lieutenant Colonel and Command Pilot. I really was supposed to be an airline pilot by now! Maybe that will happen at Allegiant someday.
[ 07-09-2007, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]
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