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Topic: "Jaws"...Released 35 Years Ago Today
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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 07-09-2010 09:29 AM
I'm old enough to have run JAWS when it first came out.
The crowds were HUGE, bigger I think than for STAR WARS
which was released a few years later. The theater was
packed every night. I could tell what part of the movie
was playing just by hearing the gasps of the audience
in the booth.
We had, I think, 5 shows a day- - and since it was a
long movie, that meant it pushed me into (union) overtime.
JAWS was very good to me! It paid my rent for a long time
and paid off a new car loan. The picture did so much
business in the theater I was at, we brought it back
the following summer for another good run.
Of course, we projected films 'the right way' back then-
with carbon arcs & change-overs. I once told a friend
who was visiting me in the booth one night that I had
run JAWS so many times that I could probably do the
changeovers with my eyes closed. He dared me to try
one, and I did- - sucessfully.
I can still remember where all the changeover cues are.
Last year, while on a business trip, I saw JAWS running
on one of the movie channels in the hotel and started
to watch it. I had to stop, becuase every time it
got near a reel end, I felt the urge to get up out
of bed. . . (I'm not kidding!)
JAWS was a great film in its' day, and still stands up
well even 35 years later. I also ran all the JAWS
sequals. The first one wasn't bad, but by the time
they got to JAWS 3D, I was rooting for the shark. . .
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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 08-02-2010 11:51 AM
quote: Brad Miller
Were you cleaning the print regularly? Was the print timed for carbon light? If no to either, that wasn't "the right way".
The comment was made slightly 'tongue-in-cheek, since
you know from my comments in previous posts that I
despise platters with a passion most people reserve
for tax collectors and child molesters. So we're
going to have to "agree to disagree" on the platter
vs changeover issue, which was not the original point
of this thread anyway.
BUT- in repsonse to the questions you posed:
1) I don't know when labs began timing prints for
Xenon VS Carbon arc. It's quite possible that
back then it actually WAS timed for carbon but
I don't know that for sure. I'm also not sure
that anyone, including myself, could have told
the difference at first glance. And the average
customer couldn't, for sure. I do know that, at
least in the New York area I worked in, carbon
arcs & changeover booths far outnumbered platters
at that time.
2) Other than some museums & archives I can't recall
anyone cleaning prints back then. In my case, I
can't really recall a print getting dirty. I kept
my machines very clean. Remember these booths
were orignally set up for nitrate projection, so
the film was never actually "exposed" to ambient
booth dirt. Reels were stored, projected and
rewound in totally enclosed enviornments. It never
really had the opportunity to have dust settle on it.
Nor did the film run over numerous plastic rollers
which contributed to dirt-clinging static electric
charges to be built up.
I don't ever recall having dirt be a problem, at least
in any of the places I worked in back then, until I
started working with (ugh!) platters.
I'll admit that ultimately it's how one takes care of his/her
booth & equipment that ultimately determines how things look
on screen. But I think just due to the physical differences
between running on platters VS projecting from reels that
it takes a lot more care & work to prevent film dirt &
damage running off platters just by nature of the fact
that the film must contact more rollers and that it's
got increased exposure to the possibilty of dirt just
due to the distance between platter & projector.
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