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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-22-2003 12:06 AM                    I don't know if it was for 3D or to drive a dubber. That facility was in use until the early 80's when Plitt headquarters moved a block away just before they sold out to Cineplex. I never saw it in use so I don't know about the brightness. AFAIK it's all still sitting there. That Kalart-Victor arc projector perhaps explains the underlying reason for the peculiar K-V two plane threading: Clearing an external light source without (for whatever reason) having a lower takeup.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-22-2003 12:08 AM                    And now something for the What Were They Thinking Department: Good thing Magna-Tech included a torque reversal switch so one can conveniently select mag down or mag up (as shown).  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2003 02:28 AM                        quote: The old Plitt Screening Room in Chicago up on the 7th floor of the Chicago Theater, once a vaudville rehearsal space known as "The Little Chicago." You'll see "The Little Chicago" mentioned in Balaban & Katz's ads from the 20's (the Chicago was a B&K house.) It wasn't really a vaudeville rehearsal space, but a rehearsal space for the brief stage shows which accompanied early silent shows at the B&K movie theaters (like many other silent era palaces did). The "Little Chicago" ads usually just show corporate types screening movies there. It really was a sort of "staging area" for the stage shows & film presentations before they moved them out into the house. Sam Katz got swept up by Adolph Zukor to operated Publix, Paramount's theatre arm. (Publix was Paramount, the movie studio's, theatre company, but the Publix theaters were named Paramount. Go figure.) Paramount (Publix) was getting very monopolistic with its business practices in the theater end, & it's techniques varied across time. First they just bought & built theaters, then when the heat started building they got coy & bought large stock interests in regional chains (like B&K, Saenger, etc.) & used the leverage to help those chains monopolize local exhibition (while showing Paramount product, of course!) By 1929 Paramount sort of tore off the mask & swallowed all the regionals that it could into Publix by buying them outright. Loew's (affiliated with MGM) for the most part was making it so they didn't have to be so coy. Then the market crashed & Paramount, which had just leveraged all these theater buyouts, found itself in a crack. What's with that projector angle? It looks like the projector is aimed about 30 degrees to port from straight on at the, umm, port.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-22-2003 09:41 AM                    It's a defunct booth, out of service a dozen or more years when I visited it. Perhaps they had to shove the machine over to remove some other gear.  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-22-2003 01:53 PM                        What the heck is a Screening room? I can only assume it's a small cinema set up for only about 30-40 people in total comfort. OR for the booker/boss to preview a film and decide if he's going to book it in. H**ts have something like that at F*x Studio's called 'Directors Suite' that is very nice. HOWEVER when it goes to 'scope, it uses the old (new) trick of top/bottom masking. Oh dear. No wonder some directors avoid c/s these days. (At least 1.85:1 doesn't transfer too badly to 16:9 w/s TV's.) Bill.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-22-2003 04:26 PM                    Common height projection ought to be the rule. I don't fault the tech guys for spec'ing 1.85 screens when that yields the largest practical picture. The blame can be laid at the feet of the architects who design a room too narrow to accomodate a Scope width screen at maximum height.  |  IP: Logged Mike Baer Film Handler Posts: 51 From: Winterthur, Switzerland Registered: Dec 2002 posted 01-25-2003 11:19 AM                        Here some pics of my "secret chambers" upstairs and the outside [ 01-25-2003, 02:44 PM: Message edited by: Mike Baer ]  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-25-2003 04:57 PM                    Hmm...no comments on the great Magna-Tech mag-up conundrum?  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-25-2003 04:59 PM                        Hi Mike, Nice place here How many screens do you have in this multiplex ? and where is the location ? I'll be glad to see a movie there ! Bye, Jean-Michel  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2003 07:39 PM                     If my memory serves steve they were designed to feed off the top of the roll only I used to have an MTM like that and I ended up remounting the reels hiherup on a sub 19" panel  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2003 07:57 PM                        Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't see the problem with the dubber design. Would someone care to explain? (Wouldn't the oxide side of the mag film always be down, in order to be in direct contact with the heads?)  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-25-2003 08:15 PM                    Mag Up = roll wound with oxide out Mag Down = roll wound with oxide in KEM flatbeds, as built, want it mag down, although plate reversal switches are so commonly added that the maker started looping the wind motor wiring past the lip of the machine for convenience in adding them. Then they can take the rolls either way. Assistant editors syncing dailies on a bench using a squawk box and a head clipped to the synchronizer work mag up. Thus, on any given show dailies can be mag up or mag down. (Workprint temp mixes are almost always mag down.) I've been doing dailies lately on a show working mag up but they're making a point of giving them to me mag down (well, except for one roll they slipped me today ) and I return them mag up. Scott, the problem the photos illustrate is that with anything other than a very small roll trying to run mag up (with the mag film coming off the bottom of the reel) results in the film rubbing on the back of the left sprocket pad (that's actually the 16mm side--they flip around). Gordon, that's basically what they are: Mag down only. Except the curious fact that there is still a switch there which can select CW or CCW backtension/rewind direction for either mode. A strategically placed roller just above the sprocket would solve this issue. And if that was a picture-safe roller it would enable the dubber to act as an extra winder/rewinder (the mag rollers would scratch picture film) which could be a convenience in some situations.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2003 09:51 PM                     Anyone with more than 2 pictures to show of a theater needs to send them in as a formal submission to the Picture Warehouse. They are not to be uploaded here. This thread is intended to be used as a place for members to upload a sample picture (this means one) to make sure they understand how the system works. Once you have successfully accomplished this task, please do not continue to upload random pictures to this thread or show off a theater. All future uploads that should be sent in as a picture warehouse submission will be deleted. A picture for discussion (like Steve's of the dubber above) belongs in it's own thread.  |  IP: Logged Chris Markiewicz Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: Glenaviegh, County Tipperary, Ireland Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-25-2003 09:52 PM                     Here are some pics of the place I work: Pictures deleted by moderator. See above post. Whoops. Trust me not to read to the bottom of the upload page [ 01-26-2003, 04:05 PM: Message edited by: Chris Markiewicz ]  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-25-2003 11:45 PM                    In that case can we start a thread for random pictures?  |  IP: Logged

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