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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 4594) on 04-02-2002, 04:49 PM:

I know this is kind of an odd question but we still have the old Barbie Pepsi trailer at my theatre and the owner was wondering what the current trailer is like. Any info would be appreciated!

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-02-2002, 06:12 PM:

There's a _new_ Pepsi trailer? Landmark is still running that godawful Barbie one...

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 04-02-2002, 06:31 PM:

Hey, I LIKE the Barbie trailer.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-02-2002, 08:17 PM:

There's to be no talkin', cussin, or fightin during this show. Don't wanna hear no cell phones or beepers, I don't wanna see any trash on the floor. And keep your eyes on the emergency exits. Got it?

-Oh, wait a minute, did I leave this thing on again! Damn!

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 4594) on 04-02-2002, 09:45 PM:

I'm not sure there is a new pepsi trailer, I just THOUGHT there was....

We are 1/2 subrun, 1/2 art so the barbie trailer isn't really appropriate for the art house....we were just wondering what was out there.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-02-2002, 11:18 PM:

My heart won't skip a beat, I never look before I leap,
Ride, just enjoy the ride, don't need no reason why-

Oops, sorry bout that again! (slaps self)

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 04-03-2002, 11:31 AM:

Scott is correct. WTF is Landmark doing with the Barbie trailer as their policy? I saw it in front of Kandahar and it was completely out of place.

OTOH Jesse has the right idea. If you're gonna have art in your policy trailer, use the Pepsi Girl! That was cool when Regal had her in front of arthouse fare. Maybe Pepsi can bring her back for use by Landmark and the Angelika.

Posted by Joseph Pandolfi (Member # 223) on 04-03-2002, 07:59 PM:

Rachel: If you are talking about rolling stock ad, the current Pepsi trailer is the one titled "Bronzeman" for the Sierra Mist drink which began its flight last Friday. This replaces the "Oscars" trailer.

Posted by Tony Troidl (Member # 1143) on 04-06-2002, 12:03 AM:

Hell, I've been trying to get a NEW pepsi trailer for a Drive-in for YEARS!

They did get me SLIDES last year, (no good to me)

before it finally broke 2 years ago we had "let's go to the movies" and they never got us a newer one!

If anyone knows who I can contact and where to get a Pepsi trailer let me know, cause pepsi Co. in buffalo was a waist of time....

Thanks!

Tony.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-08-2002, 01:20 PM:

Tony: What drive-in do you work for? I worked at the Grandview in Angola NY 1967-1970.

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Posted by Tony Troidl (Member # 1143) on 04-08-2002, 02:43 PM:

Cool!

Thats the one!

hey, I'm sure you remember the cool colored beads and Porno Pics on the walls etc...

Looks a bit better thease days, (not a lot)
Will have to take pics to post of it.

I'm sure you remember the Intermission reel we have then too!

Has gotten a bit shorter every year... We lost the Pic one like 5 years ago, and when we switched to pepsi we lost the Coke and Sprite trailers...

Small world I guess!

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-08-2002, 03:44 PM:

Tony said: "hey, I'm sure you remember the cool colored beads and Porno (Playboy) Pics on the walls etc..."

They're still there? After 32 years?

The booth and rectifier room decorations were NOT my doing, but rather that of our chief projectionist (Carl S., the MOPAR man in black, if you know who I mean ). Remember, the 60's were the days of "hippies" and "flower power", and he thought the beads and boobs were .

If you are still using the SAME intermission reel, that's amazing!

Haven't been back in that booth in decades --- what's the current equipment being used? Still have the Century C's? I assume they converted to a platter and xenon lamphouse years ago. What do you use for the sound? The original AM transmitter was my home-brew, and one of the first in NY state.

Posted by Tony Troidl (Member # 1143) on 04-09-2002, 02:45 PM:

hehehe,

No, the Porn and beads are LONG gone....

Yup, the good old days!

Still have the C's. removed the old carbon arc's in '81 and put in Knisley 3K's, NO Platter though. just 26" reels... I think he is worried about too much dust causing problems?

AM sound is an Autorad II put in same time as Xenon's, FM is stereo system I built and have updated several times over the past 5 or 10 years.
We still have that old home Brew AM unit sitting there, it may even still work? I recall it burning up a few times, man did that smell!

Not much Int. Reel left as I said some we lost some we had to remove when we went Pepsi...

Things were So bad, that last year I had to pull an Old Coke trailer out, and go frame by frame and remove anything coke related so we had SOMETHING to play for Intermission!

I ended up ordering some new stuff from Drive-in film.com now, but still need more.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-09-2002, 03:19 PM:

Tony said: "Still have the C's. removed the old carbon arc's in '81 and put in Knisley 3K's, NO Platter though. just 26" reels... I think he is worried about too much dust causing problems?"

Those Century Model C's were from the original installation, dating back to about 1953! Just like the "Energizer Bunny", they just keep on going, and going, and going...! The old long-gone "Skyway" drive-in was the twin of the Grandview, with the same equipment package.

Sorry to hear the 11 mm Ashcraft carbon lamps were replaced with only a 3000 watt xenon. At 120 amps on the carbons, we could really light that big 100-foot screen, especially in scope!

Not surprised that AM transmitter with those hot 6JE6 beam power tubes in the final amplifier finally went up in smoke. If you didn't tune the final properly, the plates would glow red. Coupled to the water-logged underground sound wires, we easily covered the lot. If you hooked it to a "real" antenna, you could probably entertain Canadians across Lake Erie!

I lost track of Carl S. (the MOPAR man in black who was chief projectionist) a few years after I moved to Rochester. Please contact me off-line if you know where he is living/working now.

Posted by Tony Troidl (Member # 1143) on 04-09-2002, 03:43 PM:

I don't think they were ashcraft arc's, I'm trying to remember...
I think they are in storage yet? Will have to look now!

Didn't Skyway have Generator type rectifiers? Been gone quite a while...

Yeah, 4K Xenon would have been better, But Mr. Cohen thought it would be simpler not to have to water cool the projectors anymore, and they said we had to if we went 4K.... bummer!

One NICE thing, No more horns blowing when a carbon burnt off or had a bubble or....

Those C's are like a tank, and will let just about any junk film run thru them (as our intermission reel shows)

one intermittent went on us around 4 years or so ago, but ther than that....

I'll be sure to get some pictures, the screen has seen better days, needs new metal, but he had it repainted last fall so....

Damn big screen, 120' x 40' don't think I've ever seen one bigger!

Tony.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-09-2002, 03:59 PM:

I recall the screen was about 40 x 100 feet. Nothing like a fresh coat of paint and 8000 watts of carbon light (120 amps x 67 volts) to make the pictures shine! We never had a problem with the water cooling for the carbon jaws and the projectors --- surprised they decided to "wimp out" on the light output to get rid of the water. Once you got to know those Ashcraft lamps, you could get every bit of light from those carbons without risking a flame-out, wasted carbon or burned film. Maximum light output was about 17,000 lumens with the shutter running! Few xenon lamps even come close. Burned only about 5-inches of rotating positive carbon trim for each 20 minute reel, so you certainly could have kept the carbon lamps, even for the large reels.

Posted by Tony Troidl (Member # 1143) on 04-12-2002, 10:56 AM:

yup, we had run the large reels in the Theatre in the village with carbons, it works...

as for the water, the fella that was working there in the early 70's had a problem with it!!!

from either plugged lines, (happened to me more than once) or because he was a bone head and kept forgetting to turn the water on!

Melted the silver Jaws MANY times...

8K xenon would have been GREAT!

Oh well...

Screen is 120' as I had just mesured it last spring when trying to get new sheet metal for it...

either way it is BIG!

This reminds me< I have to order a new Xenon bulb for one machine, was about waisted last fall but he didn't feel it worth replacing till spring...

If your out this way over the summer stop in!

I dunno if/when I will be there as I am working in 3 places now, if I'm not, Bob Paterson will be there he may remember you.

Tony.