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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Film God

Posts: 3977
From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 11-23-2002 02:24 AM

Don't reply to yourself... edit your posts.

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Hello, Nova Projectionist here... They really don't seem to care too much about screen presentation (we have huge scratches in most of our films) but are still a decent company.

If you are the projectionist, and 'They' are the management (and not the projectionists) huge scratches, IMHO, aren't a result of 'They' not caring.

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Chris Tyson
Film Handler

Posts: 15
From: Branson, MO, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 11-23-2002 02:30 PM

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Travis Turnbough
Film Handler

Posts: 7
From: Davenport, IA, USA
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 11-23-2002 03:17 PM

Daryl- thanks.
The equipment is very faulty. No matter how good of projectionists we have, we can only be as good as the equipment. There are two main projectionists that work in the booth at the theatre i work at. The other gentleman doesn't care anything about screen presentation. He's only kept to fill in the needed hours. Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do with such an uncaring projectionist?

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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-23-2002 04:17 PM

If he's cutting frames (I guess that's what you meat when you said "splices") out of features that are still playing at your theater, I would keep an eye on things to catch him at it and then report him to management.

If management doesn't do anything about it, go to the next step. Inform the district or regional manager that you have brought it to your manager's attention that this guy is hacking apart prints for his own "frame collection" or amusement, that it's ruining the presentation for people who have paid to see the movie, and that nothing has been done about it.

People who cut footage from prints for any reason, especially to "steal" that footage out of the print should be fired, and made to pay for the print. Let's see how long it takes him to sell his "original film cells" on eBay to pay for it.

=TMP=

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-23-2002 07:06 PM

Steve said "Wow...Mark...do you believe that was almost 8 years ago?"
Thats hard to believe, and the old and better liked downtown West Bend Cinema is still cranking too. I don't miss that area much at all, except for a few really nice customers I had(and still have) in Northern Indiana. I much prefer to do service in Jackson Hole, Aspen, Or Sun Valley, ID.
Mark

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Film God

Posts: 3977
From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 11-23-2002 11:28 PM

If nobody at all in management seems to care about the prints, talk to your booker, they're usually pretty protective of them.

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