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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-09-2011, 03:18 AM:
You know you're a Projectionist when -: you have rewinds on the kitchen table.
Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 01-09-2011, 04:29 AM:
You measure time in feet.
Posted by Marco Giustini (Member # 4544) on 01-09-2011, 06:04 AM:
you find small pieces of punched splicing take in your underwear.
Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-09-2011, 06:20 AM:
you have a 7 x 15 ft screen in the basement for film and a 10" tv upstairs. Louis
Posted by Sebastian Binz (Member # 4567) on 01-09-2011, 08:05 AM:
you complain to your wife about the windows not being cleaned and therefore the light throughput being reduced...
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-09-2011, 10:16 AM:
You quit going to the movies because they aren't show properly
Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-09-2011, 11:34 AM:
You watch a movie on DVD and remember where the reel changes are.
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-09-2011, 11:38 AM:
You want to scream whenever you see 4x3 pictures stretched out to fit 16x9 TV screens. Or vice-versa. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 01-09-2011, 11:53 AM:
You heat your dinner in the lamphouse. (old school way) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-09-2011, 01:17 PM:
Or light your cigarette off of the carbon arc!
Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 01-09-2011, 01:24 PM:
quote: Martin McCaffery
You quit going to the movies because they aren't show properly
...and you also start staring at the upper right corner of the screen every 18 minutes watching for the changeover cues!!
Posted by Jim Henk (Member # 3628) on 01-09-2011, 03:30 PM:
You go home buying, and pass just because there aren't two good adjacent rooms that would make a good screening room auditorium / booth combination.
Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 01-09-2011, 04:28 PM:
You create moveable masking for your iPod.
Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 01-09-2011, 05:47 PM:
You see EVERY reel change cue in features.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-09-2011, 06:55 PM:
quote: Martin McCaffery
You quit going to the movies because they aren't show properly
No kidding. Couldn't have said it better myself. Well, actually I probably could have because I would have completed the word "shown" and punctuated my sentence. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Chase Pickett (Member # 5975) on 01-09-2011, 06:55 PM:
You have imdb.com and Box Office mojo on other tabs while on here.
Posted by Caleb Johnstone-Cowan (Member # 3710) on 01-09-2011, 08:51 PM:
...you're the Manager and you actually know what to tell your Projectionist when something goes wrong, and with the right terms.
...a little bit of you dies inside each time the floor staff make an idiotic call on the radio: 'the film is fuzzy' 'its broken'.
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-09-2011, 09:24 PM:
quote: Martin McCaffery
You quit going to the movies because they aren't show properly
I certainly avoid some specific movie theaters over that issue.
quote: Scott Norwood
You want to scream whenever you see 4x3 pictures stretched out to fit 16x9 TV screens. Or vice-versa.
I'm not a projectionist but that stuff makes me want to scream anyway.
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-09-2011, 09:33 PM:
..when you hear for the millionth time, "Can you turn the brightness up?"
Posted by Chris Mosel (Member # 1451) on 01-09-2011, 09:42 PM:
....you found and replied to this thread.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-09-2011, 10:47 PM:
...even when showing a DVD to your wife in your house, you get it cued up ahead of time and bypass all the menus and stuff so you can start the feature "on time"...all in the name of Good Presentation.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-09-2011, 11:18 PM:
quote: Ian Parfrey
..when you hear for the millionth time, "Can you turn the brightness up?"
Sure, I probably got this a few times when I was at Madstone. Haven't heard it ever since I've been with Regency (same exact building, but with better stuff).
And Ian, I certainly hope you only hear that on 3D movies.
Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-09-2011, 11:32 PM:
You come home smelling like Film Guard & Simplex projector oil.
Posted by Chase Pickett (Member # 5975) on 01-10-2011, 12:06 AM:
quote: Mark J. Marshall
You come home smelling like Film Guard & Simplex projector oil.
What is going on up in your booth? I (like a normal human being) usually come home smelling like booze and cheap strippers. ![[sex]](graemlins/sex.gif)
Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 01-10-2011, 02:36 AM:
You have your room decorated with countdown leader and old trailers...
Posted by Mandy Moncayo (Member # 6040) on 01-10-2011, 02:56 AM:
You want to scream when people ask you to fast forward/skip the trailers.
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-10-2011, 05:22 AM:
..when visitors to the projection room are impressed by the size of your 'cameras'.
Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 01-10-2011, 06:49 AM:
...projectors are "machines" and the booth is "upstairs".
Posted by Paavo Mardi (Member # 4962) on 01-10-2011, 07:42 AM:
... you run the booth even in your dreams.
Posted by Robert John Jeromson (Member # 2559) on 01-10-2011, 11:49 AM:
You can remember what cinema you saw a film in, what its aspect ratio was and what sound format you heard it in...
Posted by Bruce Hansen (Member # 281) on 01-10-2011, 11:50 AM:
Someone asks you how long a film is, and you tell them how many reels it is.
You are driving along, and notice a building that (at least on one side) has no windows, and is painted white, and you think about how fun it would be to project a movie onto that building.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-10-2011, 12:24 PM:
...somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours.
[quot]projectors are "machines" [/quote]
I learned that from the guy who taught me. Glad to see it's nationwide! ![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif)
Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-10-2011, 01:19 PM:
Someone asks you how long a movie is and you say 147 GB.
Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 01-10-2011, 03:33 PM:
Mike,
International Association Theatrical Stage Employees & Motion Picture Machine Operators
Commonly known as the IA IATSE and IATSE&MPMO
Posted by Dick Prather (Member # 1136) on 01-10-2011, 04:43 PM:
You hate it when the new DVD's have no que marks when you know you made a changeover there.
You think it's a different movie because the sound has been completely remixed from when you ran it.
Posted by Matt Johnston (Member # 5457) on 01-10-2011, 04:46 PM:
... when you read this thread and laugh about how much you can relate to these and how much your wife HATES that you can relate to these.
Posted by Robert D Hall (Member # 5674) on 01-10-2011, 04:55 PM:
When you go to a theater you have never been before. And find your self climbing the back row seats just to get a look at the booth.
Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 01-10-2011, 05:13 PM:
Have nightmares of taring down a machine only to be "pressed" for time to get it back together before the next show. You look around and see what seems like a thousand pieces left to put back on with less than 5 minutes til show time.
Posted by Sam D. Chavez (Member # 1841) on 01-10-2011, 05:58 PM:
Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing only darkness, thinking you missed a changeover.
I know...I'm an old timer.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 01-10-2011, 07:04 PM:
or waking up every 18min :)ding ding
Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 01-10-2011, 07:12 PM:
quote: Mike Blakesley
...somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours.
Instead say "Approximately 172,800 frames" or "Approx 10,800 feet." ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-10-2011, 07:30 PM:
Gordon: what a great idea for a cell phone ring. Louis
Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-10-2011, 07:45 PM:
quote: Gordon McLeod
ding ding
You get TWO dings?
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 01-10-2011, 08:44 PM:
the standard reel alarm in canada was the Jackson that was an excentric mounted pendulum bell assemble on the upper reel shaft
Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 01-10-2011, 08:44 PM:
Mark,
The old Hatke reel end alarms with the ball bearing inside always gave 2 dings. If you spun the reel too fast when threading it would give 3 dings.
The other magazines that had the arm riding on the emulsion side of the film only made 1 ding when the arm fell.
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-10-2011, 08:51 PM:
You know you're a projectionist when...
...you hear the term "brain" and immediately think about what's in the middle of a platter rather than what's between your ears.
...you know a brain wrap isn't some sort of fashionable new head band.
Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-11-2011, 09:00 AM:
Either the Jackson or the Hatke is what triggers my old memories. Either would be really neat. I have both on-the-shelf so if I could hack the phone, it could easily be done. louis
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-11-2011, 09:13 AM:
About five years ago, I made a "projector sounds" tape with some good equipment (Schoeps microphone and DAT recorder). It was made for a completely different purpose, but I could make a WAV file of the Hatke bells if anyone wants it. It has the projector and lamp exhaust noise in it as well, however, so it would not work as well as a ringtone or sound effect as a recording of just the bell (which I did not think to make, unfortunately).
Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 01-11-2011, 09:34 AM:
My Hatke gives 3, sometimes if i'm pulling a heap off to thread it will keep going ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Posted by Sam D. Chavez (Member # 1841) on 01-11-2011, 10:29 AM:
No one has mentioned "Can't Scratch" reel end alarms.
They were made both with mechanical and electrical bells.
Posted by Donald Brown (Member # 5427) on 01-11-2011, 12:41 PM:
One knows that one was once a real, reel-to-reel projectionist when the sight of old projection equipment becomes as exciting as revealing images of the opposite sex once were! It could also be an indication that the one who was once a real projectionist is aging right along with the vintage equipment that is so admired!
Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-11-2011, 01:14 PM:
We are becoming Masters Of Obsolete Technology!! Louis
Posted by Chase Pickett (Member # 5975) on 01-11-2011, 01:53 PM:
quote:
when the sight of old projection equipment becomes as exciting as revealing images of the opposite sex once were!
Ummmm I can't say the same. I guess I'm not a projectionist due to my human nature.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-11-2011, 02:53 PM:
...you can't really read a book for a long uninterrupted time, because you stop after every paragraph to check carbons.
Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 01-11-2011, 03:22 PM:
Yep, have to agree with Mr Brown, our cinema in yarmouth has some equipment in the foyer, and i just drool over it, century head, and peerles arc, oh happy days of relief projection at the
pavilion cinema blackpool
Posted by Dick Prather (Member # 1136) on 01-11-2011, 05:26 PM:
when watching a movie at home on video you have to have a tape recorder playing the sound of a running film projector in the room.
Nothing makes you jump faster then a sound like film tailing out or snapping in the machine.
Posted by Joseph Pandolfi (Member # 223) on 01-11-2011, 08:16 PM:
You know you are projectionist when....
You bring a three full reel can to the bowling alley and leave the bowling bag in the booth.
You hook up an hourmeter to the light switch in your house and wear PPE to change the bulb at 3000 hours.
You play a DVD right through to the end of the credits to see if there is a rating card.
You schedule a 2hr. 15min. DVD at 5:45 PM so your wife can watch American Idol at 8:00 PM.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-11-2011, 09:26 PM:
quote: Joseph Pandolfi
You schedule a 2hr. 15min. DVD at 5:45 PM so your wife can watch American Idol at 8:00 PM.
Well, that's just bad scheduling. You didn't leave any time for between-shows cleanup!
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-11-2011, 09:37 PM:
The DVD should play at 8:00 with the turd American Idol canceled.
Posted by Monique Bouvier (Member # 4318) on 01-11-2011, 10:39 PM:
when watching a dvd at home and the credits start rolling you expect the lights in the place to turn on.
for those who use foils for cues... when the credit foil hits at the perfect time (at the start of the first words in the credits) you say, "that is one sexy foil placement".
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 01-11-2011, 10:43 PM:
When you get into a discussion with people you don't know about the sound of reel-end-alarms, the pitch they make and the quantity of "dings" "thwacks "thunks" or "rings"...not to mention the "plink, plank, crack roll....roll....roll....fwap" that they make.
-Steve
Posted by Chase Pickett (Member # 5975) on 01-11-2011, 10:52 PM:
quote: Monique Bouvier
"that is one sexy foil placement".
ANOTHER sexual refrence?
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-11-2011, 11:11 PM:
Of course. Everyone gets into projecting mainly for the sex.
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-12-2011, 12:02 AM:
Yep. That's what I've heard. However, I've never met a projectionist that has been able to get away with splicing single frames of pornography into family films.
Posted by Sam D. Chavez (Member # 1841) on 01-12-2011, 12:51 AM:
"Of course. Everyone gets into projecting mainly for the sex."
I know I did.
From Casablanca. "I was misinformed."
Posted by Juan Carlos (Member # 5884) on 01-12-2011, 02:21 AM:
You know you're a Projectionist when....
when i see a DVD, i miss the sound of the projector ....and the scratches or garbage in the movie....jajajaja....
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-12-2011, 03:35 AM:
...when you make an effort to go out to see a good movie- the dinner suit, champagne and cigarette on a stick kind of thing- and you walk into the auditorium with your date and look up casually to the projection ports and you see ... a digital projector...
... and you cry.
Posted by Brent Francis (Member # 5008) on 01-12-2011, 08:29 AM:
When you see the film jumping in the gate & your hands leap out of their own accord, trying to close it. (This happened to me once in a theatre. I hit an sudience member in front of me in the head)
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-12-2011, 11:06 AM:
quote: Monique Bouvier
the perfect time (at the start of the first words in the credits)
That's wrong. You don't want the lights coming up the second the credits hit the screen. You want to give it a few seconds for the audience to realize the movies is over and get "mentally" ready to go back into the real world -- not "jar" them into reality.
(You know you're a projectionist when you're anal about when the lights come up at the end of a movie)
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-12-2011, 11:16 AM:
You have you living room lights on a dowser so you can lower them half way for all of the crap at the beginning of the DVD and all the way for the Feature. Extra points if you have aisle lights in your living room.
Commentary tracks are NEVER treated as part of the movie
Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 01-12-2011, 01:36 PM:
All of the above plus:
>You have a can of Simplex oil sitting
somewhere around the house.
>You've used an old arc carbon stub
as a pencil.
>You've wrapped at least one gift
using colored leader film as a ribbon.
>You use those little plastic trailer
cores as napkin rings.
>You've contemplated motorizing all
the curtains on your windows at home.
Posted by Tom Wurz (Member # 42) on 01-12-2011, 01:58 PM:
.....when you go to Applebees' restaurant, you know the one with Hollywood stuff hanging on the wall, and ask to be seated next to the Goldberg reel.
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 01-12-2011, 03:24 PM:
You spend more time on Film-Tech than on Facebook.
Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 01-12-2011, 04:58 PM:
The smell of Film-Guard gets you horny.
Posted by Jonathan Althaus (Member # 5042) on 01-12-2011, 05:33 PM:
The smell of no film guard makes you depressed
You think Christie Simplex would be an awesome name
You watch a movie thats been out a few years and instantly remember building that title
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-12-2011, 05:55 PM:
..you think that your recipe for apple cider calls for vinegar syndrome.
Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 01-12-2011, 07:28 PM:
Despite denying it, would still memorize when a reel with nudity came up, even if it meant walking across the multiplex.
AJG
Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-12-2011, 08:14 PM:
You know the Lord of the Rings movies as "Changing Seasons", "Grand Tour" and "Till Death For Glory".
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-12-2011, 10:48 PM:
quote: Sam D. Chavez
From Casablanca. "I was misinformed."
Lol!
Posted by Peter Howard (Member # 3491) on 01-12-2011, 11:54 PM:
you remember actual release dates ... even from decades ago.
quote: Mike Blakesley
...somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours.
+1 haha
Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-13-2011, 07:47 AM:
...even though it happens almost every year, you always seem to be the only person in the room who realizes that movies are actually released ON Christmas day.
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 01-13-2011, 08:32 AM:
quote: Mike Blakesley
somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours.
Someone asks you what the movie is about, and you say "it's about 2 hours"...
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-13-2011, 09:10 AM:
...when you spend 4 hours explaining to your girlfriend that a 'reel' is 10 minutes long and a 'spool' is anything larger.
Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 01-13-2011, 12:43 PM:
When you spend many more hours trying to justify why you need a huge 35mm projector in the house, and no a DVD player wouldn't be the same thing ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
She's kinda right, it's the same thing. But I like my toys. Loud. Leaky. Huge. Toys.
Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 01-13-2011, 01:54 PM:
You know you're a Projectionist when -: You wanted to name your son Brenkert.... but had to settle for it to be the dogs name instead.
Posted by Sam D. Chavez (Member # 1841) on 01-13-2011, 04:13 PM:
"You wanted to name your son Brenkert.... but had to settle for it to be the dogs name instead."
At Telluride Film Festival the techs are known as members of the Carl Brenkert Society.
Posted by Robert Throop (Member # 61) on 01-13-2011, 05:52 PM:
When your cat is named Sprocket.
Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-13-2011, 08:07 PM:
at one time your cats were named Zipper and Essanay
Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 01-14-2011, 04:55 AM:
When you see 3rd class booth personnel who really don't care on any form of techniques, train others on how to run projectors and let them run solo after two days and they expect the ones whom they trained to know everything..
..and there is nothing that you can do about it without stepping on any toes...you just have to look and walk away and feel sorry for the patrons who spent their big bucks on crappy presentations.
...Why I'm really beginning to like digital...
(Gee, I should retire and do a newspaper deliver route at nights...)
-Monte
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 01-14-2011, 09:13 AM:
You're old enough...Effem step on their toes!
Posted by Hans Van Der Vlist (Member # 3315) on 01-14-2011, 10:25 AM:
You MUST be a film projectionist if you only feel alive after checking all the worlds film forums form your favorit list.
Posted by Manny Montes (Member # 5639) on 01-14-2011, 12:49 PM:
When you tell people what you do and they all say "Oh, Like in Fight Club?" and you die inside...
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-14-2011, 01:51 PM:
...when you spent the remaining days of your life regretting telling that kid who asked you...
"What's your job, Mister?"
...and you reply...
"I'm a Projectionist"...
and the kid asks..
"What does that mean?"...
... and you say ..
"Well, I'm the guy who spends all day in darkened rooms, punching out all those little holes on each side of the film!"
..and the kid just stares and blinks at you.
This is the moment you realise that comedy is not your forte and you should stick staying in darkened rooms and punching out the little holes in the sides of film.
Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 01-14-2011, 10:19 PM:
...you roll your eyes at just about every well-intentioned but horribly rendered illustration of film used in print and TV. (You know, that 50mm-wide stock without soundtrack with a variable five to eight perfs per frame.)
...you cringe at a countdown leader you saw on YouTube that continues past “2”.
Posted by Allan Riddelll (Member # 5090) on 01-17-2011, 04:24 AM:
YOU KNOW YOUR A PROJECTIONIST WHEN YOU WATCH ALL THOSE OLD 'ROADSHOW' MOVIES ON TV AND GET UP TO GET A BEER COZ YOU KNOW THE INTERMISSION IS COMING UP.
Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 01-17-2011, 10:39 AM:
quote: Allan Riddelll
YOU KNOW YOUR A PROJECTIONIST WHEN YOU WATCH ALL THOSE OLD 'ROADSHOW' MOVIES ON TV AND GET UP TO GET A BEER COZ YOU KNOW THE INTERMISSION IS COMING UP.
When I was a kid, but very aware about film presentation technology, whenever a film played on TV and I saw the reel changeover dots, I used to scream out "commercial!" and 99% of the time, there'd be one. My family never figured out how I did that.
Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 01-17-2011, 12:57 PM:
quote: Martin Brooks
whenever a film played on TV and I saw the reel changeover dots
I remember that up till around the mid 1980's there were
cue marks on many "live" network TV programs, such as
game shows and even on the Tonight Show.
They were usually little white square dots(an oxymoron!)
on the upper right that quickly flashed two or three times
about 10sec before the video faded out.
I assume the local stations "down the line" used them
to start their video-tape or film prerolls.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-17-2011, 01:11 PM:
You know you're a projectionist when you run movies for an audience.
Posted by Dennis Udovich (Member # 1066) on 01-17-2011, 11:18 PM:
you used film cement to make a splice
Posted by Bryan Parkhurst (Member # 6072) on 01-22-2011, 06:54 PM:
you get word to turn the lights down in a theatre, run to the booth, and find... its still in the damn trailers!
And that just happened to me 5 minutes ago.
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 01-24-2011, 05:53 PM:
...a 'fake' film break in a DLP or home video performance makes you bolt out of your seat.
...you give visiting guests (or worse, your date) a tour of where all the old closed down theatres you used to work at were located.
...you have a picnic table made out of a Christie AW2 platter deck and a large Goldberg tower reel. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
...Your main travel destination for the year is to attend ShoWest/ShowEast/CinemaCon.
...you prefer a shortened version of a song played over end credits because the well-used print you ran in a discount house was missing part of the credits causing an early tailout (this is especially true for me with Peter Cetera's Glory Of Love) ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Posted by Andres Briano (Member # 4621) on 03-23-2011, 02:01 PM:
You know you are a projectionist when...
...it makes you mad that you cannot adjust the height of the subtitles when watching a DVD on your TV.
Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 03-23-2011, 04:46 PM:
...you no longer use the expletive "AWAH SHIT" in the projection booth.
Posted by Lindsay Morris (Member # 1430) on 03-25-2011, 12:50 AM:
You go Awwh Shit when you see that you have spliced in a reel upside down and have to recover from it quickly.
Luckily using a MUT so only lost 14mins on screen..big wakeup call though! First and last time ever..I hope.
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-25-2011, 01:24 AM:
wtf?
Posted by Marc Jensen (Member # 3561) on 03-25-2011, 03:48 AM:
Uhhh, yeah...
So, you know you're a projectionist when...
You pour your heart and soul into explaining to management figures why test screenings should proceed without constraints on when they can be conducted, so that things like upside-down reels in shows don't stand a chance of happening.
2.) ... After the night of the power cut where everything dies and a couple of shows are stuck in projectors with an hour to run, you head home, flick the bedroom light switch on, fall asleep, awaken at 6:00AM, race to work, enter the projection room at 6:10AM, and build up the Harry Potter print that releases in 3 hours... before reattaching things to the building that ripped off in the storm that knocked out power for 8-9 hours.
Yeah, the show must go on. ![[fu]](graemlins/fu.gif)
3.) The plastic things rolling around under the passenger seat of your car are old rigid cases for Osram short arc lamps that, you know, you might need one day just in case, just because those cloth bags don't have slots in them...
4.) The phone rings (again) and you immediately tell it to "Oh, fuck off!"
5.) You wake up in the middle of the night, totally puzzled, and mildly annoyed, by some tiny thing in your mouth. You turn on the bedside light, work it loose, spit it out and there in your hand is a 2mm squarish piece of clear splicing tape.
Those things get everywhere! ![[uhoh]](graemlins/uhoh.gif)
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 04-01-2011, 04:59 AM:
....when the remaining money left in the theatre's Sports and Recreation Fund goes on the good peel-able splicing tape and not a slab of beer for the staff.
quote:
4.) The phone rings (again) and you immediately tell it to "Oh, fuck off!"
Posted by Simon Wyss (Member # 6218) on 04-11-2011, 12:42 PM:
. . . when someone asks you: got a light?, and you reply: got two, uhm, two kilowatt each!
Hello, everybody, I am fresh here. Greetings from Basel, Switzerland
Posted by Tim Asten (Member # 4051) on 04-11-2011, 01:23 PM:
...When you ring up for car insurance and when asked for your profession, they say "oh, cinema projectionist does not come up on our computer - we will have to put cinema manager instead.
Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 04-11-2011, 04:31 PM:
when.....you can't watch a film on TV or in a theatre without seeing all the cues.
Posted by Stuart Carl (Member # 6265) on 05-22-2011, 08:08 PM:
...when you can't stand film students...or directors either for that matter
Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-22-2011, 10:47 PM:
quote: Marc Jensen
3.) The plastic things rolling around under the passenger seat of your car are old rigid cases for Osram short arc lamps that, you know, you might need one day just in case, just because those cloth bags don't have slots in them...
My Strong lamphouse had a little extension doodad that had to be screwed onto the end of the lamp before clamping it into the holder.
I kept one of those plastic lamp cases because it made a dandy "wrench" for screwing that on and taking it off.
Posted by Harold Hallikainen (Member # 5405) on 06-04-2011, 12:20 PM:
These are great! Regarding "You want to scream whenever you see 4x3 pictures stretched out to fit 16x9 TV screens. Or vice-versa." my wife and I notice that her parents watch TV with the "fat mode" enabled.
On another one, I ALWAYS see the reel change cue on screen. I haven't seen enough digital movies to notice, but do they also put the reel cue on screen?
Harold
Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 06-04-2011, 12:34 PM:
Hey Harold! Did you know there used to be an IA local in SLO? I worked for them at the Lompoc Theatre and later owned the Mission theatre in Solvang.
Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 06-04-2011, 12:35 PM:
quote: Harold Hallikainen
On another one, I ALWAYS see the reel change cue on screen. I haven't seen enough digital movies to notice, but do they also put the reel cue on screen?
No
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-04-2011, 12:44 PM:
Quick Chris Slycord impression...
Your statement implies that you HAVE seen digital movies, but previously you state you NEVER miss changeover cues.
Posted by Rod Cornelison (Member # 5202) on 06-04-2011, 12:57 PM:
When you hear an explosion (bulb)you run to it not away from it!
Posted by Harold Hallikainen (Member # 5405) on 06-04-2011, 12:59 PM:
I don't actually work in theaters (I work at USL designing stuff). So, I'm generally in the auditorium instead of the booth. I am occasionally in a booth helping on an install or troubleshooting something (like a celltower across the street causing a problem). The one digital movie I know I've seen MANY, MANY times is The Game Plan, since that's test content used in ISDCF Plug Fests ( http://www.isdcf.com/ISDCF/Plugfest.html ).
Great discussion!
Harold
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 06-04-2011, 02:09 PM:
For nostalgia, I just shoot a focused flashlight at the upper right corner of the screen periodically.
Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 06-04-2011, 07:07 PM:
quote: Brad Miller
Quick Chris Slycord impression...
quote: Harold Hallikainen
I don't actually work in theaters
FYI his confusion wasn't relating to whether you worked in a theater or not. It was about the fact that if you never miss the changeover cue like you claimed then it would take roughly 20 minutes into the first digital screening you watched to figure out if the cues were there or not. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-04-2011, 08:00 PM:
You know you're a Projectionist when...
you're either unemployed or about to be.
Posted by Chase Pickett (Member # 5975) on 06-04-2011, 09:35 PM:
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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 09-01-2011, 08:15 PM:
Bump. For those who care, I finally dug up these tapes and converted them to WAV files.
Hatke alarm bells (2 takes) (~1MB)
Hatke alarm bells with projector running (~500K)
[ 09-03-2011, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]
Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 09-01-2011, 09:58 PM:
Scott....very cool. Made me jump up looking to strike the arc!
Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 09-03-2011, 08:29 PM:
You can time 18 frames in your head.
Posted by Robby Golosino (Member # 6325) on 09-03-2011, 10:27 PM:
you know you're a projectionist when you stole your son's remote control car and modify it to drive a motor contactor so that when rewinding is done...you switch it off with remote lazily...just what i did...last month, and my son cries the whole day that i had to buy some new remote controlled car....lol...
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 09-04-2011, 02:51 AM:
... you can sleep with your Century and your Simplex doesn't get jealous.
Posted by Joris Springer (Member # 4175) on 09-15-2011, 06:07 PM:
you miss the noise of the projector when the booth is already digital for that screen.
Posted by Walter Rabey (Member # 5968) on 09-17-2011, 09:44 PM:
You know your a projectionist when...
You have that little scar on your hand from when the splicer bit you.
Posted by John Stevens (Member # 5211) on 07-21-2012, 05:46 AM:
...When you can read all of the pages in this topic and at the end have to wipe the tears from your eyes(due to laughing so much)because it is all true.
My son wrapped his mothers last Birthday present with a ribbon of.......pink leader., I have trl cores at home, why....kids play with them.
...you sit in the cinema squirmimg in your seat because the person working for you so you can watch a movie with your wife is screwing up the presentaion!!
...your wife gives up coming to the movies with you because you are always up in the box fixing the sound or adjusting the lens.
Thanks soo much for this topic...pure classic moments
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 07-21-2012, 08:13 AM:
When the tech from Christie spends all day setting up your new DLP projector then, when he's done, everybody gathers at the back of the auditorium to look at the picture, they marvel at how "great" the picture looks.
You stand there and look but don't say a single word until they turn and ask you, "Doesn't that look great?"
You know you're a projectionist when you lie and say, "It looks good."
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