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Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 03-14-2000, 06:53 PM:
Recieved the new copy of Kodak's "Cinema Notes" (the former "Film Notes for Reel People"). The new format is interesting, but I notice something rather curious...The article on the Christie Reference console had a statement that 2,000 kilowatts (!) of xenon lamp power could light a cigarette and 4,000 kilowatts could melt aluminum. (Yes, kilowatts.) If a lamp that big could be made, 2,000K could set a cigarette factory on fire, and 4000K could level a parking lot full of cars!
I feel sorry for the film!
(Aren't typos fun?)
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-14-2000, 06:58 PM:
(That's Christie's secret for getting so much light out of those consoles. 
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