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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 4) Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 09-24-2014 11:10 PM                     Someone up here read my post about the Opaque Projector I got instead of the Drive-in and sent me this Ebay Link asking if this maybe was the Projector.....The Answer is Yes that's the One.It was actually a neat little Toy. You could put it over photographs, Magazine or comic book pictures.illustrations,etc,. and project it on the wall or a Sreen if you had one. It made a very Large in Focus Image. Being at the Time that I thought the Little Drive-In actually had some type of little movie projector instead of Film Strips;This turned out to be a better Toy... http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1950-s-plastic-Magnajector-portable-electric-projector-NOS/221554120350?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D444000%26algo%3DSOI.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140402094601%26meid%3D0e4f70bc8ca84ddc997051db8c186164%26pid% Scott; I've got it boxed up and put away but the AD with it says 4" x 6" I think it was bigger. One of my little ACER Laptop's screen measures 5" x 8-1/2" and it looked about that size...  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-26-2014 04:41 PM                        I'd say this is an acceptable reason for the package not being delivered: (Some guy near Vancouver got this notice from Canada Post.)  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 09-28-2014 09:20 PM                     YES;But he was ready to accept the Package OOPS! I overlooked the C.O.D. charge,Bear didn't have the Cash!  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-01-2014 01:11 PM                     I wondered why my Computer Tower was crackling & Smoking  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 10-01-2014 10:44 PM                     Oh jeez Steve, that reminds me. One evening last summer, I was picking up a print from the local drive-in theater that had just closed for good a few days prior, that we were going to open at Plaza the next day. I was familiar enough with the "booth" (just a trailer) that I just walked in nonchalant and was getting clamps, etc. In the low light, I saw what appeared to be the tail of the feature laid over the top tailed out. I wend to grab it and got within a few inches before I realized it was in fact, NOT the film tail, but but a tail nonetheless! I jumped out of my skin, and nearly shat my pants. It took me a good solid 10 minutes just to get my wits about me and quit running around in circles out in the field. Then another 15 minutes to coax him off of the print, down the platter, and through a hole in the floor. The punchline?? The print was "Planes". I can't make this stuff up.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 10-04-2014 02:08 PM                     Took me a minute to get that one. LOL Good one though.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-04-2014 02:36 PM                     So were you clamping the first feature on the center ring, or the second feature not on the center ring?  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 10-04-2014 03:09 PM                        I've got a better one. When we put the print of "Snakes on a Plane" back in our delivery room for pickup, there was literally a snake on the floor right were the print would set. It was just a small garden snake, but you could not ask for better timing than that.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-04-2014 03:34 PM                        Looks to me like the movie on the top deck is complete on a center ring ready to go. The one on the middle deck is the first half of the second movie and the print on the bottom deck is the second half of the second movie. They just ripped the splice (which was made with opaque tape!) mid-show and called it a day. Then someone put masking tape (!) all over the second half of the print. What they hoped to accomplish by doing this is incomprehensible. There is no advantage to be had time-wise or effort-wise by doing this. Was this booth operated by someone who has had many, many strokes? This place clearly deserved to close for good.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 10-04-2014 04:02 PM                     HAHAHA! I was clamping and taking "Planes", which is full and complete on the middle platter in the photo. So yes, quite literally, there is a snake on Planes. There's a total of 4 movies on the platter stand shown. A double feature on the top, and a freshly (lazily. To be fair, his father had just passed, on top of the place having just closed, 0 fucks were given) split double feature on the middle and bottom platters. The projectionist that did that is....... a character. He's a real interesting fellow, pretty good guy. He liked working with film but as you can see, wasn't exactly good at it. He worked at the 10 plex I work at for a few years and after threading, he would get up from kneeling by using the platters as support(Larger fellow). The Speco LP270s at Plaza 8(where he also worked for a while) could handle it, but nooooot so much the AP3s... all the decks ended up warped and that made for some less-than-enjoyable tear-down.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-07-2014 10:57 PM                     "TWEETYBIRD AT 60" "MADONNA'S OBAMA CARE DENTAL PLAN"  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-23-2014 02:20 AM                         |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-23-2014 12:47 PM                     The Reason for the Projectionist leaving the Booth! THE ROOF LEAKED  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-24-2014 02:29 AM                         |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-26-2014 07:23 AM                      |  IP: Logged

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