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Posted by Betsie Beadling (Member # 591) on 03-08-2001, 08:50 PM:
Sometimes i Have Strange Dreams where the Movie Melts!!! 
Do Projectionists Get Strange Dreams???
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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-08-2001, 09:08 PM:
I dream in Technicolor!
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 03-08-2001, 09:52 PM:
A melting frame is a projectionist's worst nightmare! (especially in the days of nitrate film) ------------------
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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-09-2001, 12:13 AM:
I just keep having these strange dreams where I actually make it through a night without the cell phone ringing and having to help a theatre with a problem.Usually the dream ends when I wake up and hear the phone ringing. 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-09-2001, 01:12 AM:
I have some information that 100% of cell phone users seem to be lacking:Your phones can actually be turned OFF!
Yes, that's right! No more ringing at odd hours! No more ringing in movie theaters! No more ringing and interrupting conversations that you are having with real people in real life! No more pissing everybody else around you off! Amazing! Try it! People will actually start to respect you!
Trust me: when the cell phone rings, you do not impress. You annoy.
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-09-2001, 01:19 AM:
Yes Betsie - There is a Santa Clause - and the dream's go on and on and on...........
and you wake up and all films are in 70mm.
and, PLEASE, PLEASE,PLEASE, Oh! God Make this my prayer. "70mm forever!"
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 03-09-2001, 01:38 AM:
when I first started working at a theatre I used to wake up in the middle of the night saying out loud "would you like butter?" My old microwave also used to beep just like the component engineering TA-10 and if someone was using the microwave I would bolt straight up out of bed thinking it was the failsafe going off.------------------
I love to smoke I smoke seventhousand packs a day and I'm never F*&ing quittin!-- Denis Leary
Posted by Rachel Carter (Member # 693) on 03-09-2001, 02:03 AM:
FREAKS!!! 
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-09-2001, 02:24 AM:
Hey now, not all dreams are nightmares. Surely everyone has had that same adrenalin rush dream of walking into the Technicolor depot with guns blazing, ala that lobby scene in reel #6 of "The Matrix" after being sent a junk print from them earlier that evening. 
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-09-2001, 04:28 PM:
Believe me, if I wasn't required to have the thing I wouldn't have one.
Posted by Christopher K. Williams (Member # 418) on 03-09-2001, 05:42 PM:
Yeah, Betsie! I, too occasionally have projection nightmares. They usually occur after my Thursday night shift, when I don't get home until 3:AM, especially if it was a stressful night.
My most common dream is something like this: I'm running around the booth, frantically threading machines and starting them late, then I get a call on the radio that something's wrong with the sound in auditorium X, then as I am fixing X, something goes wrong in Y, etc. Or, I start the wrong print, or the schedule is all kooky and I get confused, or I go to thread the machine and there is no print on the platter tree (which has actually happened to me once). Thankfully, I haven't had one of those dreams in awhile.
BTW Joe, your rant on cell phones is right on the money!! I am tired of people who rush to grab their phone when I am having a conversation with them...it looks as if they'd rather be with the person on the other end. As far as looking 'important' goes, I read an article recently about the proliferation of electronic communications devices and how it's easier and easier to get a hold of anybody anytime. The conclusion of the article was that, in the future, the really 'important' people will be DIFFICULT to reach (and not at everybody's beck and call), rather than lunging for their electronic leashes at the slightest beep.
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-09-2001, 07:05 PM:
If it wasn't a cellular it'd be e-mail.
If it wasn't e-mail it'd be a pager.
If it wasn't a pager it'd be by hard-phone.
If it wasn't a hard-phone they'd send up a flare.
If there were no flares some guy on horseback would come galloping up.
If I marooned myself on a desert island a message in a bottle would float up on shore!
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 03-10-2001, 02:47 PM:
A REAL BAD DREAM: Dreaming you are eating chocolate pudding, only to wake up to find a spoon inserted in your lower posterior!(One of my projectionists came up with that one.....)
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-10-2001, 06:04 PM:
Randy, you are just too damn important!
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-10-2001, 09:53 PM:
quote:
really 'important' people will be DIFFICULT to reach
I WISH I was that important!
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-10-2001, 11:17 PM:
Paul, You have to stop making me laugh so hard......... My side hurts.
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 03-11-2001, 12:42 AM:
OK Bob - will try.
Posted by Christopher K. Williams (Member # 418) on 03-13-2001, 08:49 PM:
Randy,I hope I didn't offend you with my "'IMPORTANT' people will be hard to reach' quote and other comments. It was not meant as a personal attack on you. Judging by your posts here, you need your phone as a dedicated employee who cares about presentation.
I simply meant to comment in general about people who don't use proper cell phone etiquette.
Chris
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-13-2001, 09:07 PM:
No problem, man! No offense taken. It was taken with the humor which (I think) you intended. This whole thread is supposed to be a dream, right? It isn't really happeining, is it?Actually I don't get called that often. I have had a few calls at inopportune moments. Ever been sitting on the john in a busy public restroom when it rings? Thank the phone gods for caller ID!
Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 03-27-2001, 02:39 AM:
i once had a dream that i was running one side of the theatre and one of my friends was running the other side.
i walked over to his side and there was a party going on.
i asked him why the hell all these people were up there and he told me that they werent hurting anything.
the only problem was as i was walking around, there were people eating and drinking all over the booth and leaving messes everywhere. one group of people actually had a picnic blanket and a basket and everything.
the worst part came when i walked by one theatre and there were employees rubbing black shoe polish on a moving platter. again i asked what the hell they were doing, and they said "its ok, man, its not gonna hurt anything."
Then i looked out the window and could see black shoe polish smudges down all over the picture and the customers were starting to look up towards the port glass.
the complaint came over the radio and i panicked and said that there would be a manager in the booth any minute now and everybody rushed to get out of the booth.i woke up after that.
Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 03-27-2001, 04:52 AM:
I remember one night when one of my managers kept calling me for this and that (I'm sure it was a record), and the next morning I jolted awake because I swear I heard his voice on the radio, and I thought I might have fallen asleep in the booth (No, I don't sleep on the job that much ), but I was at home in bed. But my god it sounded so real.
That was pretty weird.
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