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Author Topic: Non-US members report here for a survey of all countries represented on film-tech Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 05-20-2004 08:10 PM                        Demetri - I can understand your situation. I grew up in a divided city (Berlin) in a divided country in a divided continent in a divided world. Now I am living again in a place that is divided into Alta California and Baja California. Even though it has been divided since 1850, the people of Baja still feel a strong yearning for Alta so they walk through the desert in large numbers to get there. Rune - I am a Viking not by birth (though I come from Northern Germany where there were Viking settlements too, so who knows?) but in spirit - I laugh, eat, drink a lot, like to travel and bring fear and panic everywhere I go.  |  IP: Logged Marja Jarvio-Jolivet Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Helsinki / Finland Registered: Jun 2004 posted 06-12-2004 06:34 PM                     Just great to have found this forum ! Thanks to the new cyan tracks that made me to do a big research all over the Internet... I'll make my first post here by introducing myself, you definitely need a new country in the list. I can make even 2 new country entries: France and Finland (Surprising that France isn't presented here at all yet !!! To think that the country of frères Lumière stays still in the shadow...). Originally from Finland, I spent over 20 years in France and that's where I became a projectionist. I started to show films in a itinerant cinéma circuit going from village to village carrying everything (except the screen itself) in a van and setting up each evening the theatre. I assure you, building the whole system up 5 times a week is a very efficient way to learn something about projections ! I just loved to do that job, even if I didn't have any fancy, new equippement to deal with. After I wanted to learn how really show films in "good" conditions and worked for a couple of years in a 4 screen cinéma "art et essai" (I guess it means "art house theatre"). Finally got to know how to work with platters, more modern type of projectors (Kinoton and Victoria), automatisation and the minute-puzzle multiplex timing. Then I had to return to Finland for personal reasons. I had no hard time to find a job here and was employed in the first place I presented myself as the head-operator of a 7 screen art house theatre where I'm struggling to ameliorate the quality of the projections. I'm happy to realize that I succeed in it - slowly but surely . No new, modern equippent here, everything is manual, films on reels that have to be rewound, mono sound and as projectors 3 Philips FP 56, 2 Ernemann 12S and 2 Ernemann 4 (yes, those last 2 ones ARE working and doing ~10h/day every day!) Even if I hope to get those "dinosaures" changed, I take it meanwhile as a challenge to keep them running without having any dammage on the film and a sharp, bright image on the screen. My new boss starts to know me and accepts surprisingly well what I want and need. Suppose he sees that it's worth while in the number of admittances So, I'm very much looking forward to exchanges of knowledge and experiences on this forum with colleagues all around the world and hope that I could not only take, but give something too. And please, forgive me for my somewhat clumsy english, specially on technical words, I know them only in french and finnish and I am just learning them on this forum.  |  IP: Logged Ferdinando Innocenti Film Handler Posts: 79 From: Genova / Italy Registered: Jun 2004 posted 06-20-2004 03:03 PM                     Am I too late for adding a second italian projectionist to your list? I live and work in Genoa, the town of Cristoforo Colombo, Paganini and the last, terrifying G8. And the city where the first italian football club was founded. And where was invented the jeans fabric. And... it's my home! Nando  |  IP: Logged Marco Belluco Film Handler Posts: 1 From: Breganze (VI), ITALY Registered: Jun 2004 posted 07-02-2004 04:02 AM                     Hi! I'm another italian projectionist . I'm 21 years old and I'm a student in Information Tecnology at Venice University. Sorry for my english!  |  IP: Logged Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-02-2004 07:27 AM                        Eheh Three Italian posts all togheter!!! Brad, we're conquering Film-Tech! When you will create the "Spaghetti" section? Bye Antonio  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2004 11:41 PM                        Three more, & you guys can sing 'Chi Mi Frena' for us!  |  IP: Logged Ferdinando Innocenti Film Handler Posts: 79 From: Genova / Italy Registered: Jun 2004 posted 07-05-2004 12:51 AM                     No problem, we're searching for Lucia!  |  IP: Logged German Marin Expert Film Handler Posts: 227 From: Verbania (VB), Italy Registered: Jul 2001 posted 07-15-2004 10:08 PM                     I'm not Italian but I'm here and my friend Giorgio Volpi who's Italian is here too! Saluti a tutti gli Italiani! Ciao. [ 01-04-2005, 10:07 AM: Message edited by: German Marin ]  |  IP: Logged Gilbert Travin Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Villeurbanne / France Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-16-2004 09:33 AM                        Hi Marja ! France is here ! see page 11 ! Where, in France, have you learned the projection-techniques ? [ 07-19-2004, 02:09 AM: Message edited by: Gilbert Travin ]  |  IP: Logged Andrew Jefferson Film Handler Posts: 23 From: Brisbane, QLD, Australia Registered: Jul 2004 posted 07-28-2004 11:49 AM                     G'day Ladies and Gents I'm here representing Australia, from the yak i hear around the circuit a lot of us guys look here for useful info on running our booths. Thanks for the good work...  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 08-06-2004 12:25 AM                        In the now customary manner, I guess I should introduce myself. I live in the beautiful village of Oxford, North Canterbury, situated about 50kms NW of Christchurch, in New Zealand. In my late teens I spent some time in art school (in the UK) doing 8mm and 16mm projects, which (apart from b/w photography and the obligatory camcorder) has been my entire film experience. But, for my sins, I am now the Apprentice Projectionist at Oxford Movies. Oxford Movies is about showing a movie in the town hall on a Saturday night every couple of weeks during the winter season. In summer folks are too busy workin', playin' or sunnin' to watch movies. Movies have been played in this hall since 1933, and before this hall in the old town hall (now well gone) since 1924. We know that silent movies were shown from 1880, but I dont know how frequent or reliable that very early stuff was. Admission to a movie is $5, thats 5NZD, which is a bit less than two bucks USD. So yes, this is an intermittent, unpaid job. My day jobs have been to do with IT, the internet, electronics, automation, security, theatre, rock and roll etc. I'm a licenced but inactive radio amateur. In terms of my apprenticeship, I've yet to do my first changeover, the deep end looks like being Harry Potter, in just a couple of weeks time Doubtless I will suck, in many respects. I've been reading this site over the past few days (icluding the entire forty odd page suckfest), and realise I have lots to learn about being a projectionist. My first goal is to get to be a projectionist, then I can learn and improve :-) Fortunately, with many years of theatrical presentations behind me, I understand about deliving a quality professional show to paying punters. So I dont need an attitude readjustment - just skills aquisition and equipment improvement. That may be harder... So thanks to all here, I've already learned loads that I would probably never have got as a hand-me-down trainee. Oh yes - I got here researching about cyan soundtracks, which are soon coming our way.....  |  IP: Logged Kevin Markwick Film Handler Posts: 43 From: Uckfield East Sussex England Registered: Sep 2004 posted 10-31-2004 05:12 PM                        If you're still counting.. Chalk another one up for dear old blightly. Been in the cinema my whole life, literally. Grew up in and now run the family business, a three screen cinema in the south of England. Seen it go from one to two to three screens. From Peerless arcs, 2000ft spools and Western Electric valve amps to platters and Dolby Digital. Have a look at our website wwww.picturehouseuckfield.com if your interested. People assume if you own your own cinema you must be rolling in it. If only it were true.  |  IP: Logged Jarrod Cocker Film Handler Posts: 33 From: a Registered: Oct 2004 posted 11-02-2004 06:31 AM                    Devonport - Tasmania - Australia Yes - I live on that Tri-angle island, so the south of Main land Australia. Population of about 400,000 I Work as a Projectionist, in a Cinema that is relatively new - only 5 years old... Im hoping to post pics soon! Any Q's, just ask  |  IP: Logged Robert John Jeromson Master Film Handler Posts: 264 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jul 2004 posted 11-21-2004 06:20 PM                     Christchurch - New Zealand, often referred to as The Garden City. Nice place, great climate can get up to 30 degrees celcius here in the summer with relatively low humidity, only down side is that it can get as low as -4 in the winter. Snowed here this year, for a couple of days. But beautiful at the moment.  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-29-2004 12:25 PM                        Hey, I'm Italian! Hey, my last name is Volpi! Where's Giorgio? I need to meet that guy. Probably some long lost relative. Any family in Chicago?  |  IP: Logged

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