She DID smell good. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 01-23-2008, 02:18 PM:
also, maybe not in the booth, but seeing a good ol' Manley popper roaring away in the concession stand really brings out the 'smell of the theatre'
Sorry Cretors and others, they just don't cut it for memory's sake.
-Monte
Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 04-20-2010, 08:10 PM:
It has been 818 days since the last post.
Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 04-20-2010, 08:10 PM:
*bump*
There have been two booths in my career that I have come back to work at after a significant time away, one had a smell that took me right back, the other has no smell memory so far as I can tell (but maybe I should say "yet" as I currently work there, perhaps the nostalgia side of the brain hasn't kicked in).
I would like to re-visit some of my old booths at some point, though I know one has been converted to all digital, so I wonder what the effect on the smell would be?
Posted by Martin Daian (Member # 1779) on 04-20-2010, 11:59 PM:
Speaking about Cinema Smells i remember when i was a little boy and my grandfathers takeme to the theaters, first need to made a file on the street to enter on the theater, normally this files size arround 500 feet long with 1000's of people awaiting to enter on the theater lobby, i remember that when little by little i near the theater street doors a wonderfull smell go out to the street and when enter on the theater the smell are concentrated, no popcorn machines here so the smell was magical, years later i speak with a professional architect and make this questions that what is the unique theater smell and he say that the smell is produced for a mix of various components installed on the theater, one of the components was the projector carbons fired, the smell is impregned on all the theater, the other factor are the old desmontable acustical ceiling roof that was a 1 feet square acustical panels plaques with holes for the sound, the other factor was the wood on the internal doors and the perlux screen, old perlux screens have a incredible cinema smell, well the people that loves the theaters like all us will feel that sensation of the smell and creates a magic sensation, is a mix of senses, the smell the big spaces and the oldest retro style.
Today the theaters not smells like in the old days, today smell to a popcorn and smell to a carpeting, i don't like the smell of the new theaters, i like the old style street theaters smell, that smell and special construction buildings have the magic, today survive very little of this theaters thans to the fans that have some money to maintain this big palaces.
The smells of the projectors are also a incredible thing, for example the RCA 400 smells all the same smell,
the Siemens also all the same smell, the Philips FP 3 also the same smell, i discovery that mayor part of the smell comes from the paint, in the old projectors more smell for the old coarrugated paint, black and obscure grey coarrugated paint like in the Philips FP3 or like in the Ernemann X, the same paint the same smell, i made the smell projector test and all coincident.
The carbon smell are a important part of the smell on the theater, the problem that carbons looks impractical today, expensive and toxic, also the autonomy permits up to 50 minutes of continuous prjection so a platter system will not work, only changeovers.....
Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 04-21-2010, 01:12 PM:
Although I have been out of the game for sadly some time, I can still smell in my head, that certain something, as soon as I opened the booth door, ozone, popcorn,oil, I dont think it ever leaves you, after all, there is no job like it in the world,is there.
Posted by Jonathan Smith (Member # 5609) on 04-21-2010, 03:01 PM:
Only glossed over this, so apologies if this one's already been spoken for, but it's not any of that crap, it's the DUST getting incinerated by the lamphouse that is a big part of the smell.
Even with digital, shouldn't go away, though WE will certainly be eliminated at most theatres.
The older the equipment, and the longer it's been storage, and the brighter the lightbulb, the more that smell permeates the room.
Of course, these pesky exhaust ports and BS safety equipment detract from the experience greatly
Posted by Manny Montes (Member # 5639) on 04-21-2010, 09:55 PM:
The smell of simple green and other cleaning supplies
Posted by Tom Wyse (Member # 5621) on 04-22-2010, 03:03 AM:
I always enjoyed the smell of a new print. Of course nitrate has a distinctive aroma all it's own, and I remember tyhat, too!
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 04-22-2010, 04:01 AM:
That unforgettable aroma of vinyl floor-polish, carbon dust, warm 1620 valves, the ozone jolt from the xenon igniter, wax from the print, Fuji print stock and hot, fresh drive-in coffee.
Damn. Gotta love this business!
Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 04-22-2010, 09:41 AM:
Last night I fired up an old RCA Porto-Arc lamphouse!!! What a smell. I haven't smelled that odor since the 70's. Brought back fond memories. ![[beer]](graemlins/beer.gif)
Don
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 04-22-2010, 10:20 AM:
The smell of carbons in the morning it smells like .... victory ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Fred Georges (Member # 505) on 04-22-2010, 01:45 PM:
Smells like VICTORY CARBONS! Only a REEEEEEL old timers gonna get that one! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Richard B. Perrine (Member # 409) on 04-23-2010, 09:33 AM:
The smell of that Dupot print....
Eastmen film cleaner...
the new print that just came from the lab.
and I've got the smell of Vita Film in my office right now.
Roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd
Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 04-23-2010, 11:55 AM:
My booth smells like a 30 year old musty building with a bit of FilmGuard thrown around. We run a Christie booth with a few Sony's tossed in to really spice things up. The only grease we play with is on the platter bearings.
Posted by Tony Gallimore (Member # 5358) on 04-23-2010, 09:08 PM:
I remember a difference in the smell produced by different brands of machinery. Most of the drive-ins in this area were equipped with Century equipment. The lubrication requirements were very different from the Brenkerts at the indoor. Of course, the Brenkerts were lubricated by oil bath. That in itself injected the smell of oil into the booth, plus they were notoriously bad to leak. We set a catch pan on the floor below to catch the leaking oil, which was quite a bit. That booth really smelled of used oil until the Brenkerts were retired and replaced by Simplex's. The Century's used very little lubrication, it was measured in a drop here or there on each fiber gear once a week. Back in the day of carbon lighting, we always had the smell of the rectifiers heating up. We also used mercury vapor rectifiers at one theatre. These were heated all the time you were operating to keep the mercury vaporized, and had a very distinct smell. The drive-in booths, being located beside or above the concession stand really pulled some great food smells through the ventilation system. I really loved it when they threw a few onions on the grill... aahhhhh!! Great memories!
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