Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: THE 1000th TOPIC!!!

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-25-2000, 07:58 PM:

Here it is, folks! The 1000th topic on the Film-Tech Film Handler's Forum.

Congratulations to Brad for an outstanding and continually informative and entertaining web site.

And to all of you fellow Film Handlers out there, thank you all so much for your help and input. Keep it up and spread the Film-Tech word, brothers (and sisters).

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-25-2000, 11:38 PM:

Well, _I_ thought it was a big event.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 05-25-2000, 11:41 PM:

Well, what is the 1,000th topic then?

Ha ha, kidding.

Posted by Tyler Skinner (Member # 229) on 05-25-2000, 11:49 PM:

here's a topic:

Is Mike Heenan Archer Troy???

discuss amongst yourselves

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-26-2000, 01:35 AM:

WTF? Tyler, are you talking about wrestling or something, or am I just completely out of the loop? The reason I ask about wrestling (which I don't watch) is because there is a wrestler called Bobby "the brain" Heenan, or at least there used to be.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 05-26-2000, 08:44 AM:

Sorry to rain on your parade, but this is already topic 1028 in the Forum1 file. Steve Guttag took the 1000th honor with his May 18 posting on "Senator to Play Top Gun in 70mm!!!" topic. Let's celebrate when we get to the 2000 milestone.

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-26-2000, 08:56 AM:

Hey JOhn,
Thats a good idea! We could all meet at that bar in Vegas again and celebrate. I'll bring my laptop and we can send in the 2000th topic from the bar after we've all had a few rounds.
Mark

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 05-26-2000, 09:02 AM:

Mark:
I'll lay odds that we reach Topic 2000 well before ShoWest 2001. Maybe we can post it from a bar at ShowEast in Orlando?

Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 05-26-2000, 11:33 AM:

I'm going to take this opportunity to pad my postings to 100 so that I can graduate to the next level. Only took a year.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-26-2000, 12:27 PM:

Count me in, guys! I plan on hitting ShowEast as I'm finally in the NECK OF THE WOODS!!!!!! I've never been to any of the tradeshows.

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Better Projection Pays!

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-26-2000, 02:54 PM:

Technically no Steve Guttag did not make the 1000th post, despite what the forum program count says in the code (good eye there John). Many threads were started by me and then deleted for testing purposes over the last year and this program never reuses a deleted thread number. John Wilson does indeed get whatever honor this is.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-26-2000, 06:04 PM:

In a certain way, I feel kinda special, um, I guess.

(John P... ner!)

Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 05-26-2000, 09:48 PM:

I think I'll take a cue from Paul and get my 100th post. Besides, I can't very well NOT post on the 1000th topic. I just wonder if I'll become a Jedi by topic 2000.

And I'd like to congratulate Brad on putting together such a sucessful web site. I can remember when this site was just an idea in Brad's head. And look at it now! Funny that I should wait almost a year to get a computer, get on-line, and be a part of it.

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The man with the magic hands.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-27-2000, 04:36 AM:

Well, Brad certainly did all of the work setting the site up. I remember when it was "Brad Miller and Associates" and it was an AOL site. Sounds like a law firm. Brad and I envisioned a much broader scope for the site. I remember that we kept bouncing domain names off of eachother until we came up with Film-Tech. (We later did the same thing when naming FilmGuard). I made the second post on this forum. Brad made the first. Who here was with us before the forum even went to the UBB program? I remember Brad getting excited because "Oooooo we had almost 100 hits today!" Now days of over 20,000 hits or more are commonplace.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-27-2000, 04:59 AM:

Yes, the engineers with the law sounding name! Funny, it was only a little over a year ago I had the company name changed over to Film-Tech. Seems longer. The original site for the first month of it's existence was generated by pure raw html code in Wordpad. Later, I learned a few shortcuts thankfully.

Well, to figure out who was around BFT (Before Film-Tech), just go to the last forum pages and anywhere you see a person's name listed as "unregistered"...that was a post from the old site before this forum program was implemented. The posts were simply transferred.

If memory serves Joe, it was you who suggested the final name "FilmGuard", which was obviously decided upon and I was the one who decided on "Film-Tech". (Much less law-sounding don't ya think? Of course, trying to convince Yahoo the name has changed is about has hard as convincing Steve Guttag that platters are the best thing since sliced bread. If you do a search for "Brad Miller and Associates", guess where you will end up?) Anyway, a few months later Dwayne said I should've called FilmGuard "Gleemonex" instead (named after the miracle drug from the movie "Kids in the Hall-Brain Candy"), but that was probably trademarked anyway.

100 hits in a given day was certainly a milestone at the time...especially since there was NO advertising or search engines that would pick the site up then. It was completely word-of-mouth back then, and I have a feeling a good amount of the traffic today still comes from word-of-mouth. I'll have to go in and check the figures. The last time I checked was about 5 or 6 weeks ago with that 33,000 record day. 20,000 a day is about the norm now.

Funny, even the first few months while I was on the AOL server I was even then struggling for space (I had 10 MEGS allotted to me then) because of the picture warehouse which had less than 10 theaters featured then. Now the site is spread over 3 servers and well over 1000 MEGS, and is one of the largest sites (storagewise) on the web...and I still can't seem to get enough storage space! Ken Layton gets credit for a good half of that thanks to his generosity in sending in copies of his manual collection. A lot of people may not realize this, but over HALF of the manuals on this site are available because of Ken! Ken, how much have you personally spent at Kinko's to help make all of that information available to techs and operators around the world?

While I'm "rolling credits" here, I cannot fail to mention Joe's constant behind-the-scenes assistance. Joe has personally taken every single picture in the warehouse and touched them up, corrected colors (where feasible), resized them, compressed them so they will load faster, etc all at an incredible expense of his personal time. Joe has also assisted with the logos (check his latest one at the top of the screen) and many other items with the site.

There's also a REALLY silent fellow who goes by the name of Jeremy Spracklen, who lurks around the forum constantly, but I think has only posted 3 times! Jeremy has always been there with his trademark "other way of looking at things" opinion and has greatly assisted in the little things everyone takes for granted and would be very difficult to even explain. I've probably embarassed him enough just mentioning his name, so I'll leave it at that.

Dwayne is my main helper right now. You will be seeing much of him in the future (well, at least you will be seeing his "magic hands").

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 05-30-2000, 09:36 AM:

Brad:
Data overload??? Let's see. Film-Tech has "only" 1000 megs (1 gigabyte) of data, and had a difficult time finding enough server storage. A single COMPRESSED feature film shown with today's digital cinema needs about 40 gigabytes of data in an expensive RAID array capable of very high data rates.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-30-2000, 02:34 PM:

An interesting comparison, but I doubt the studios will be placing their movies on a web server and have thousands of people accessing it daily. Can you imagine what it would be like to send out Film-Tech on cd roms daily?