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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 4) Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-28-2014 06:36 PM                        Wouldn't it have been easier to chop the plugs off and use a strip of terminal block?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-28-2014 08:55 PM                     If you were going to do something like that, you might as well just bite the plugs off the ends of the wires with your teeth, strip the insulation back with your fingernails, twist the wires together using your fingers then secure them with duct tape.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-29-2014 12:47 PM                        As the chief projectionist who first trained me always said, human teeth are the best wire strippers ever invented. When I mentioned this to my father-in-law, who is a dentist (I couldn't resist seeing his reaction would be), his response was that sooner or later you'll probably be able to get replacements for those at Loew's, too...  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-01-2014 08:38 PM                        Now available in Japan, for the Delorean owner in your life:  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-03-2014 10:33 PM                        Three car thieves ran off on foot across a muddy Saskatchewan field on Friday afternoon. It would be almost impossible to walk, let alone run, in a field when it's this muddy -- your shoes would each weigh about 40 pounds within the first few steps! A nearby farmer gave three police officers a ride in a bucket on the front of his tractor so they could get across the field to catch the crooks:  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-19-2014 05:37 PM                        Today Hollywood. Tomorrow THE WORLD (Hitler ruined everything) 1930 Technicolor focus chart.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-24-2014 03:52 PM                        70mm print of 'Lawrence' ready to go over to the Aero for tonight's screening. My back aches just looking at it...  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2014 04:53 PM                        What were the shipping charges?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-24-2014 05:27 PM                     That's Lawrence in the back, but what are the seven canisters in the front?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-24-2014 06:30 PM                        Hmmm. Since the Aero is showing West Side Story tomorrow night in 70mm, that's proly what those cases are... ;  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2014 07:01 PM                     Not enough reels for West Side Story. Probably Vertigo. I think that's the booth at the Egyptian.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-24-2014 09:42 PM                        Yeah, Vertigo is showing right now at the Egyptian tonight. The American Cinematheque seems to be in full 70mm mode this holiday weekend... ;  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-26-2014 01:39 PM                        Paul's picture left out one rather important detail - for the projectionists at any case! Those 70mm shows came in just after our elevator went out... About half of those reels made it up there by Yours Truly's elbow grease (many thanks to Oliver the manager for helping me, and lugging the others). Yup - Jimmy is in the foreground and Larry is in the background. T.E. Lawrence was a notorious fitness freak, and it seems that he's imposing it on us from beyond the grave! But at any rate, hauling those movies was probably easier than hauling Kim Novak out of San Francisco Bay. Sorry I missed you on Friday, Paul (I'm a Seventh-day Adventist and therefore don't work Friday evenings). My colleagues who ran Larry both at the Gypo and the Aero report that it looked great, though. I ran West Side Story at the Aero last night and it was fantastic - a very clean print (a little dirt from plattering at the starts and ends, but otherwise mint), razor sharp, the DTS with five stage channels sounded great (the noise reduction wasn't too aggressive, and so it really did evoke mag sound) and we had an almost sellout crowd. Of course the elevator was fixed just after we got the films up the stairs. Martin - shipping 70mm isn't too big an expense for us, because one of our colleagues goes and gets the prints from local depots in a van. We're very lucky in that both our (the American Cinematheque's) theatres are located pretty close to where many 70mm prints are kept (both those of the studios and some of the big non-profit archives), and so we don't have that economic hurdle to get over in order to play 70mm.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-26-2014 02:36 PM                        quote: Leo Enticknap Of course the elevator was fixed just after we got the films up the stairs. Of course! And the Egyptian has one of those booths with an elevator that gets you to the booth floor... (well, a few steps short but close enough). At least it's only a few steps from the landing level at the top of the balcony to the booth floor... Glad to hear the shows looked/sounded good. Sorry I missed these sessions, but I am finally moving back to SoCal after my adventures in The Land of Enchantment. Hopefully I'll be a member again of both the Cinematheque and the SMPTE Hollywood Section in short order, enjoying some good films on some great screens!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-26-2014 03:59 PM                     Leo, what makes you think the dirt at the reel changes were from plattering? My experience has been exactly the opposite.  |  IP: Logged

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