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At the time, I actually thought Tron was a better movie. That's probably only because the opening of the Ark sequence scared the shit out of me. I remember when Jones was marching in line with the Nazis towards the end right before breaking off to get on that ridge asking my mom if we could watch this again. She said we'd have to wait until after Urban Cowboy to see it again and by that time it'd be pretty late, but after closing my eyes when those people melted (and on such a huge screen), I didn't seem to have a problem leaving. I can't help but laugh about it now.
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I also was enjoying 70mm prints in theatres, and agree that films like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" deserve to be seen in "The Splendor of 70mm".
The Splendor of 70mm

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Still recovering from Anime Expo 2001,

Paul
Temporarily Unemployed Mercenary Projectionist
"When the money runs out, so does I."

Way back then when my parents took me to our last remaining local cinema (we didn't have a tv, so we went to quite a lot of movies) I was always that kid that probably annoyed the hell out of the projectionist (his name was Jimmy, I learned some years later) by always sitting in the back row below the port, and spending most of the film watching the projector (a GK21) and not the screen. Many years later I began running 16mm films at school, then when I left school I wound up with a part-time job at that same cinema, same old guys that ran it, Jimmy and Sandy, same old worn out GK21's. I moved jobs, away from that town, now I've moved back and the old cinema is still there, boarded up now, covered in graffiti. As far as I know the Kalee's are still there too.

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During my 7th and 8th grade years (1980-1982), I was the one responsible for taking the 16mm projectors to the classrooms for teachers showing films each day. There was an average of about 2 per day. I'd not only take the projectors, but I'd go ahead and set them up and thread them so all the teachers would have to do is turn the projector on for their first class. The library got a lot of positive feedback about it and sometimes, when a projector would be acting up, they'd get me out of class instead of the librarian. Our library had two Bell and Howell autoload models (an older, noisier model and a new, quieter model), and one Bell and Howell slot load machine (which most people preferred since it jammed and damaged film less frequently). The science and history departments had their own older style Bell and Howell Autoload models, which always ran well, and those departments seldom used the ones the library had.

It was 19 years ago (Starting with the 1982-1983 school year) that Georgia stopped having the 16mm educational film library available to schools and everything went to VHS videotape. We went from having nice 6-foot-wide images in the front of the room to little 19 inch TVs (for an entire classroom to watch). It was certainly a downgrade.

They are both still with me and running!

In 1981, I was in my 20's and working with a brilliant film handler in Nashville TN named Sid O'Berry, who was the first TV news cameraman in Nashville at WSM-TV. We worked together at WZTV Nashville until he retired. I picked his brain for everything that he would give me. I learned alot, and wish that I could have learned more. After his death, I got a massive collection of films that I made available to the Historical societies of Nashville. Some of the film is still with me today.

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Mike Blakesley mentioned the film "Stir Crazy". I watched it being filmed at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds---BORING!!!!!!

Tucson was a very small and relativly dead town back then.

Back then there were just a handful of multiplexes in town, and these generally were not the first-run houses. The excellent first run houses were mostly 1 and two screens. And they are all gone now.