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Steven Clode
Film Handler
Posts: 11
From: London, UK
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-23-2000 03:04 PM
Hello My name is Steve Clode and i work for Hoyts cinemas at Bluewater in the UK which is basically the companies flagship cinema for Europe. I've worked here for a year now and was involved in the opening process(although i didn't get to go to the glitzy party afterwards as we wasn't quite ready for the grand opening to the public the next day, why oh why can't films come ready made???) any way i'm not bitter, we opened here last June and have gone on to be one of the busiest cinemas in the UK since, so it strikes me as slightly odd that Hoyts are Selling there UK interests. Then again all good things must come to an end i guess. Before i worked for those wonderful Austrailian fellows i worked for UCI cinemas which is owned 50/50 by Universal and Paramount. My interests are Football(soccer) Film(of course) Computers(playstaion is better than nintendo) i also like a drink at the weekend,
Favorite TV shows are Star Trek (any generation)X-files infact any thing sci fi
favorite films Star Wars and Schindlers list thats all folks ps if anyone has any comments about working the same company as me i would be interested to hear from you.
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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-29-2000 07:19 AM
Since our user names here are our actual names, and not aliases, you can see my name if you look to the left... However, most people mispronounce my first name if they've only ever read it, and never heard it spoken. If it were spelled the way it is pronounced it would be 'graysha'.I am currently a full time projectionist at a ten screen theater in central Maine. And I'm the lucky one that works on Thursday nights making up films. I've had this job since late in January this year. At 22, with just about three and a half years of cinema experience under my belt, there is a lot that I haven't seen/worked with! Such as carbon arcs, changeovers or 70mm film... Though, in that short time, I've still had more than my fair share of hellish ordeals! I used to work for Hoyts, and I can't say that I miss that change, although I may miss some of the people I used to work with. My first shift with Hoyts was during the opening weekend for the Special Edition of The Return of the Jedi, and there had been one nasty snowstorm the night before, making for a *lovely* drive that day...
About six months later, after pestering an assistant manager, along with insisting that I was not too short to work in the booth, I got 'trained' in the booth. I say 'trained' with a tinge of sarcasm. My curiosity had brought me to the booth on many occasions. I observed how the machinery got threaded, how the splicers were used, how the MUTs were used, etc, etc. So one day, the assistant manager decided that he'd "show me the ropes", because he was sick of running the booth. So I followed him to the booth. He asked me if I thought I knew how to thread the platters, I shrugged and answered "Maybe."
He told me to thread one of the platter systems. I hesitated a moment, then threaded as I had seen others thread. I got a nod of approval. He then threaded the film through the projector, explaining the process as he went, then told me to go thread the next platter system. I did so, he then told me to thread the projector. After giving him a 'are you nucking futs?!' look, I threaded the machine. He watched me thread three other machines, then said "Ok, I'm going back downstairs. Have fun," and scampered off leaving me on my own...
I spent many shifts in booth shortly thereafter. A few months later, I ended up getting a promotion to being a shift supervisor. (Whee!  ) I eventually transferred to another Hoyts location within the state, and was there for over a year before a certain QSC incident  caused me to go work for the competition!
And I like it better where I am now!  ~GLB
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Jeff Taylor
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 601
From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-29-2000 02:19 PM
A gold star for anyone who gets far enough in this thread to get to this post! In real life I'm a real estate developer, but have been collecting 16mm for over 35 years. In college I booked and worked the film society showings, and now have over 300 features. I've probably torn apart and repaired virtually every machine on the market, and now have a fairly decent home screening room with good sound and scope. Last year we developed a 16-screen, 66,000 sf theater out of the ground for Showcase in 85 days to opening--we were running so fast I didn't get too much time to play with the "tech toys", but it was an education. I enjoy the forums as a way of keeping up on the industry, and do get a lot of interesting info on film handling, storage, and preservation which is useful to me.
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Kurt Shawn Macfarlane
Film Handler
Posts: 1
From: Marion, MT USA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 09-05-2000 03:21 PM
Who the Heck am I?
Vice President, Edwards Theatres, Inc. Newport Beach, California. I started as a union projectionist in 1978, with Simplex E-7 with Peerless Mag Arc's, with 2000' reels and changeovers. I worked so that I could put myself through college. But, the theatre bug bit me, and I have been in the business ever since. I have two college degrees, one in accounting, and one in electronic engineering. Though I am a corporate executive, I do not feel that I am a asshole. My department takes care of all projection, sound, internal communications, Imax projection, and security systems for the company. I was the head of the initial deployment of information systems, both hardware and software used by the company. Since I could not handle both departments at the same time, I hired a replacement for me in the IS department, due to wanting to stay in the engineering part of the company. I have trained everyone in my department to make Edwards the best place to see and experience the best in sound and projection. To everyone in my department, Jim Stewart, Tom Schwartz, Paul Johnston, Jim Graton, Jim Barlow, Aaron Winslow, Michael Lothyan, Mark Pierce,and Dan Whitehead thanks for making Edwards the best place to see and experience Movies.
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Steven Gorsky
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 146
From: Frederick, MD, USA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 09-06-2000 03:27 AM
Well as others have said my name and location is on the left. I am currently a projectionist with Crown Theatres Annapolis XI. I've been a projectionist a little over a month. My former jobs include K-Mart, Target, and Group 1 Software (hardware tech/help desk). I was out of work for several months, and having my A+ certification didn't help even with my experience (several years). Anyway, I've always wanted to work at a movie theatre, and when they opened the new 11-plex in Annapolis after closing the 4-plex, they needed people so I applied. My only previous projector experience was with 16mm in middle school and high school, with the projectors where you trim the leader and turn it on and it will thread automatically, then adjust the focus and sound level.Well, thats basically my background. Steven Gorsky ------------------
Projectionist
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Rick Green
Film Handler
Posts: 12
From: Sacramento, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 09-10-2000 12:43 AM
Hi, I'm Rick Green. My dad was a manager for UA for 30+ years. I grew up in drive-ins, whenever mom or dad couldn't find me, they'd just look in the booth. I was doing sound service calls at the age of four.  I became a journeyman projectionist in IATSE Local 252, Sacramento in 1976. I was fortunate enough to come along early enough to thoroughly learn what I call "traditional projection": carbon arc, 2000 ft. reels and cement splices, and no automation. I was lucky to work full time for ten years, until UA and the other large circuits began wiping out all the jobs in the early eighties. I went back to school, studying TV production, and got a job in a local production studio. But, I've also worked regularly as a projectionist at the Crest Theater since 1987. The Crest was a 900 seat "traditional" theater when I started, but is now 3-screens with Christie AW 2's
in the twin downstairs, and either reels or AW2 upstairs. I've been employed as a Television Specialist by the State of California since 1998. The job pays well, but running film is in my blood. There's something so relaxing about the sound of a nice clean print smoothly passing through a machine.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-10-2000 06:11 PM
Is there some sort of Orwellian thing about this being the 101st post? (I have visited the house in which he wrote '1984' - is this a coincidence?)I am 27, and have 10 years' projection experience, a lot of it part-time while I was a student. Apart from a three-month summer job at a UCI multiplex, all my projection work has been in arthouse, rep and second-run cinemas. I am presently working for City Screen, a small chain of 11 cinemas situated mainly in the south-east of England, but which is rapidly expanding at the moment (see www.picturehouse-cinemas.co.uk). The site at which I work in York (our furthest north so far - until Aberdeen opens this coming Friday!) has three screens and a large cafe/bar. We aim to offer something different from the out-of-town multiplex. Our cinemas are in city centre locations, aim to offer more than film shows (e.g. gala screenings introduced by a film-maker, works by local artists on the walls of the bar) and combine mainstream and art/rep programming under the same roof. It's amazing to see the reaction of a full house in 'American Beauty' as they are shown the trailer for a new French film, or the re-release of a 1930s Hollywood classic, and vice-versa. My long-term career aim is to work in archival film preservation and/or restoration (I have a masters' degree in film archiving), but I've found out the hard way that these jobs are notoriously difficult to get in to and so am continuing to work in projection in the meantime.
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Zach McQuaid
Film Handler
Posts: 37
From: Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 09-15-2000 12:33 AM
WOW! Lots of responses....I've been in the theatre industry for 4 years, all of which in Projection mostly at Cinemarks Tinseltown 17 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Did a small gig at Erie's 6 screen, and the Mary DeAngelo Center for Performing Arts w/ Randy Stankey who I am good friends with and (now former)colleague who just recently was promoted to Southeast Regional Projection Technician!! (Congrats, Randy!) I have an Associate Degree of Specialized Technology in Electrical Construction, and also posess an Electro-Mechanical Engineering Degree. I have many friends, including my beloved girlfriend, who happens to be an AM at a nearby theatre. I love my job, but when I turn 35, I will be running for President of the USA.
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I had to leave the Cinemark I was at because I didn't have time to fit it in. I have about seven years experience in the projection field. I have worked at two Cinemarks, one Carmike, and one State Theater. I live in the Cleveland area.
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