and 
and 
pages and upload the file straight from your computer to one of our servers. 
Just trying it out
(razzin frazzin uncooperative chunk of plastic!)
Adam and Gracia, That code you two pasted is html, which is turned off on the forums. The new upload screen has the proper coding instructions. Sorry about that. My mistake.
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ALSO OF IMPORTANCE...you cannot upload a picture with a space in it. If you try and upload
bob maar.jpg
it will NOT work. The filenames must not have spaces. Renaming that same picture to
bobmaar.jpg
or
bob_maar.jpg
will work fine.
Guess it works with Internet Exploiter under Mac OS X.
Josh
Disgusting? Yes. But it looks JUST LIKE HER!
One more try before I go to bed.
Thanks for the tip Brad.. And Joe, please disregard my email..
Hmmm....I must have screwed up. Guess I'll have to read the instructions again.
This is Josh's Akai that I got running for him. Unfortunately, more problems showed up in the relay logic board.
Weenie Man, you are missing the image tags. They are similar to the boldface tags you used in the last post. You simply skimmed over the image tag instructions after the upload.
Very important everyone...you HAVE to read the rules and instructions for this to work. I am now lowering the filesize to 100K to hopefully catch most of these oversized uploads.
This is a Taliban Homing Rocket being ignited manually.
Ah---got it! Thanks, Brad
Radio Caroline, still moored off the Kent coast. Now broadcasts on Satellite, also on the new satellite Worldspace portable radio system.
www.radiocaroline.co.uk
Here's one of my "dirty pictures"
Adam, that is a nice looking booth.
EDIT: I deleted previous attempts and went back to my pictures folder and renamed some picture files, shortening titles and eliminating spaces. But I cannot re-use these same posts because clicking on "Insert an image into your post." does nothing when clicked on once that has been done before in this post. That's why
I used up three posts trying. I'll quit since I don't want to use more space. Maybe when I really have a picture I want to post I'll try again or email it to Brad.
The trick is that you have to rename your picture BEFORE you upload. No spaces are allowed in the filename. You can edit your previous post to include a picture. There is no reason to keep posting replies.
EDIT: Gerard it sounds like your browser is having issues. Use the "upload" link on the left side of the screen to upload the file and THEN make or edit your post.
This bridge is the Gateway to Whidbey Island, about 3 miles from where I live.
Paul, you never uploaded the picture you are trying to display.
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Alan, take a close look at your link...
[IMG]http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/image_uploads//aug06_09.JPG{/img}
Notice anything odd about the brackets on the closing img tag?
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Bernard, you failed to use the closing IMG tag. You used [IMG] at the start AND end of your link. You must use [/IMG] to close the link.
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Everything must be exactly perfect for this to work. If it doesn't work and you think your coding is correct, try to upload the picture again. If the server tells you that the file already exists, then the problem is in your coding. If even one character is off, it won't work.
-Aaron
haha I hate beards!!!
And this is just a picture that I took, that I like.
XXX rewinding with a flash. Looks like it's not even moving but it is.
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Hope this works! Should be me ,alan, of banbury (thanx 2 my amazing daughter if it does work 
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.If this works it will be amazing
XXX rewinding without a flash.
XXX rewinding with a flash. looks like it's not even moving but it is.
Guess how fast the machine is going!
Well it seems to have worked
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"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
I also have a picture of a six deck model... 
Steve
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"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
This is not kitty litter. It's kitty litter cake. I took this picture at a work Halloween party on October 31, 1997.
By the way, I could not get the upload feature to work from Opera and had to use the evil Internet Explorer to do it!
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
actually, i think my TI-85 calculator has a faster processor... HA! think i got ripped off?
They didn't even have it in frame either!
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
Granddaughter Hannah on my birthday.
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
(One of the few times I wore a suit to work ).
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
nice job Brad, I'm gonna email my pic finally.
I copied it from Antonio's website http://www.PROIEZIONISTI.COM
so I think it's a Florentine buzz saw! 
I maka da long shot.
I maka da medium shot.
I maka da close-up.
Ready when you are, C.B.!
That sounds like Waters. He's an ordained minister in God knows what religion. On the set of CRY-BABY, he performed Traci Lords marriage to a crew member (I think a relative of JW, but not sure).
Steve:
You call that a projection angle? Bah!
Prince Of Wales Theatre, in Londons West End. I was on loan there for four weeks from my base cinema in 1958. Mainly a variety theatre, no films had been shown for 12 years, the last being an RKO Radio Pictures season. Large box, with 4 Stelmer spotlights and a slide lantern. Houselights, stage lights, curtains could only be operated by the stage crew.
Did any of those installations use custom lenses/mounts to partially correct the geometric distortion?
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
Hillary: I think it was one of those ordinations you get by mail from the ad in the backs of comic books.
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WOW !!! the screen must be lying on the floor
Okay, I'm a little embarassed now because the picture has been photoshopped. It was flipped vertically before uploading. The installation actually looks like this:
The projectors are angled upwards. It is from the Star-Lite DriveInn Motel & Movies in Summerdale, Alabama. In the 70s, after the 2nd hurricane in one year destroyed another booth, the owner got fed up & excavated a bunker for the projectors. They are bolted to the ceiling (you can see in the larger photo) because even though the booth is now out of the wind & debris path, heavy, frequent rain is a given in the area & flooding of the booth occurs. There is a wheeled library ladder in the booth that is used for threading up.
John Pytlak wrote:
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At those projection angles, you must have cropped half of the image, and vertical lines almost met at the top of the screen due to keystone distortion.
It's not that bad, strangely enough. Running 35-PA & checking 1:1.85, it looks like less than 2 feet come in at the sides. Keystone isn't really noticeable at 1:1.85 probably due to perceptual ajustments made because of viewing angle. On a credit roll, though, it gives it away. There are no 1:1.37 lenses, & I sort of shudder to think.
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Did any of those installations use custom lenses/mounts to partially correct the geometric distortion?
I'm really interested in that topic! What equipment & modifications have been applied at what installations to reduce keystone?
Tim Reed asked:
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how do you keep from cracking the reflector at that angle?!
I'm resuscitating this one, but it had seen regular service with those lamps. The reflector on #1 was cracked, but not #2. I found that #1 is missing its reflector blower, #2 is not. Apparently, the reflector blower really does what it's supposed to do.
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A KIWI eats,roots & Leaves.
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Prince Of Wales Theatre, in Londons West End. I was on loan there for four weeks from my base cinema in 1958. Mainly a variety theatre, no films had been shown for 12 years, the last being an RKO Radio Pictures season. Large box, with 4 Stelmer spotlights and a slide lantern. Houselights, stage lights, curtains could only be operated by the stage crew.
Bernard, H+C arcs, with rotating positives, aren't they? Obviously an old style Kalee badge on the top box, but what model are the machines?
The Astoria Finsbury Park, which became a music venue called the Rainbow, now a church of some sort had a very steep projection angle. The sister theatre at Brixton, now another music venue, the Academy, was almost level, the projection box being under the circle. I was told that they wanted to do the same at Finsbury Park, but that the licencing authority wouldn't permit it there.
The Brixton Astoria has a famous proc. arch, based on a bridge, the Rialto, I think, It is possible to walk across this, but, if you do, take care; it is dark, and there is an R.S.J. painted black half way along, at just the right height to bash the top of your head on!
Regret that yesterday I didn’t have time to finish the posting, wife shouting upstairs, ‘turn that b****y computer off I’m waiting to go out’.
I have never worked on the H+C arcs. You see, when ABC leased the Prince Of Wales Theatre to unable a West End run of an Associated British Pictures, “Wonderful Things”, because nobody else would book it! ABC decided much to all the six (three per shift) temporary projectionists disappointment, the Kalee 11 projectors would be temporarily replaced with Ross GC3 projectors, and the H+C arcs with Peerlees Magnarcs. The existing RCA sound with 1041 soundheads was used. As the theatre had never been on films since the academy ratio days, a temporary wide screen frame masked to 1.75 was also installed. As there was no scope, the picture was made as big as possible, and what a fantastic picture it was in spite of the huge rake! And the best RCA sound I’ve ever heard. Wonderful theatre to see a film in, and what an atmostphere believe you me. The supporting programme was a Pathe Pictorial, Harold Baim short, Peter Sellers featurette, Pathe News. No Adverts or Trailers of course, there was a sales interval before the feature. The presentation was, as you would expect in a West End cinema at that time. The stage crew were excellent, tabs & various colours were used on every item, the cues from a red light from the box. Very long throw, from the projection box the picture looked as though it was on the floor. I did, as all the others, very much enjoy working there. On the early shift before opening we would sneak into the Odeon & Gaumont staff canteen which was housed in the old Leicester Square Theatre, for a three course lunch for 1/9d in the old money. Happy days!!!
In later years Indian films were shown on Sundays, the H+C arcs were replaced with Peerless Magnarcs, and the Kalee 11s with Westar 2001 projectors, and not long after with Philips FP 20s. I didn’t do anymore projection, but I did see all the equipment changes. All projection equipment has since been removed completely. The box is now solely used for sound, lighting, and spotlights.
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Follows is a very poor quality photo of the steep projection rake at the Carlton Theatre, Haymarket 1969.
Just so there is no confusion:
What are The Beatles doing with those dolls and sausages?!?!
=TMP=
Looks like the lobby of the AMC Empire 25 on 42nd Street in NYC.
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
Last time here...EDIT your posts, do not keep replying.
Several years ago, a big deal was made about the theater being "saved", as it was moved with giant inflatable A&C figures seeming to pull it. When it was indicated that it would be incorporated into the AMC, it was generally sort of thought that it would be incorporated into an auditorium - I figured that they'd close off the balcony & underbalcony, & make the orchestra with the proscenium the big auditorium. The way it turned out was not what most were expecting.
There's a bit in Titus Andronicus where Titus' sons have been arrested, & a guy comes up & says that the emperor will spare their heads if Titus will give up his hand. Titus cuts it off & says "Here ya go!", & a little bit later a guy delivers his sons heads & says "Here ya go!" Titus probably thought the deal for saving his sons heads was, like the deal to save the Empire, supposed to be a little different.
John Pytlak has picked up on something that I've noticed too. It sort of becomes more unpleasant when so much recoqnizable reminder remains of a more sumptuous theatrical environment remains. The use of the Eltinge/Empire as the lobby of the AMC 25 probably satisfied who-knows-what-all regulations & historic requirements (they sure didn't need that much lobby) & the effect is initially spectacular in the contrast & incongruity of the escalators running through the proscenium, but after the initial visual impact, you start thinking about what you're looking at, & it becomes sort of depressing. You pass through this indicator of a gone, palatial theatrical experience into one which is contemporary, fairly featureless & unintending to impress.
When so much is still there to easily see what it was, it's sort of grisly & has an unpleasant feeling, like something immoral has been done. It's like a head on a pole. The Michigan in Detroit is another example:
Before: http://www.atos.org/Pages/Palaces/Michigan/Michigan.html
After: http://detroityes.com/downtown/michtheat_pan.htm
Everybody ooh's & ah's over the old proscenium theaters, & they're the most likely to be saved, but the postwar movie theaters are almost all gone. Auditorium decoration had been moving to more simplified schemes since art deco started coming in, then when sound came in & drapes, horsehair-stuffed mats & carpeted panels on the walls became more essential & worked into the design. You can see it especially in the Cinerama & D-150 theaters that are pictured all over the web - just drapes all around the walls. Those theaters were more severe, extreme & "undecorative" extensions of current auditorium schemes. The standard theaters at the time had decoration based on similar needed treatments for the walls, & usually out-of-the-catalog fixtures. But really the difference which made them work better than current generic stadium theaters were that they were closer descendants from an art deco tradition that was carried through auditorium decoration schemes - a scheme that relied greatly on line, much more than ornaments & fixtures. You can't get any sort of line going for a decoration scheme in short stadium shapes.
People just don't care about quality or the experience anymore. They just want the product as quickly as possible. Hence "Digital Cable." My friend has this monstrosity and I literally can't watch TV at his house because it's like looking at a low-res AVI file with pixellation up the wazoo. "But you get 130+ channels!" That second pic with the tiny screen reminded me of a film festival I was recently at at the State Theater in St. Petersburg, FL. While not exactly an impressive movie "palace", this single screener had some character to it. Unfortunately, there is no longer a booth, a screen, sound, or even chairs in it anymore, since they use it for punk and heavy metal concerts mostly, and the concession stand has been changed into a bar. Even the murals on the wall were covered with dirty drapes. So how did they run a film festival in this place? Easy. Folding charis, a sagging sheet as a screen, speakers from the stage, and glorious video projection!! (all the movies were on video anyway). I took what pictures I could, but I can't get my scanner working at the moment. It was a shame.
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Keith Albee Theatre, Huntington,WV.
These are photos of photos (my scanner is broken).This shows the 2 identical "Q-System" signal processors that recorded the nuke info on 35mm film. You can see the film recorder & 500' magazines on the right. The operator could look through a viewing port and see the CRT and digital matrix image being recorded on film. That's not me tripping over the 'scope probe though.
This is the darkroom where I broke my toe sleeping on the job. That's a LabMaster 35mm film processor. The b/w photo above was developed and printed using the equipment & chemicals in this darkroom.
This is the control panel of "Old Sparky", the 50KW diesel generator that went blooey (not my fault).
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I don't like theatres that have the audience higher than the screen. I don't think you should ever look down at a movie screen...especially when so many (American) camera angles are upward-looking.
All right young man, if you don't want to sit in the balcony with the rest of the family, you can just watch the REST of the movie from the orchestra pit! Don't think we're going to let you sit in the orchestra seating or god forbid the loge with the rest of your hoodlum friends; we know what happens there!
Steve
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"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
) That's why when I'm with a group who insists on sitting in the top row, I usually separate from them.OTOH, I did experience "pain" watching a sneak preview of Robin Williams' "Jack". The only seats left were in the front row, which was no more than 5 feet from the screen in their largest theater. I had to watch it in 10 minute intervals because my neck and eyelids hurt.
I guess anything "X-Treme" isn't good.
=TMP=
[I'm deleteing the broken image link per the instructions to remove broken image links.]
quote:Arnoldscope came to mind, but that's 10-perf 35mm, not 12.? The original post was 35mm, not 70. Hmmm... So this format was a way of shooting which was copied to 70mm afterwards?
I've never seen that. What format is that?
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quote:I don't understand. The projector is upside down. So wouldn't the projected image be upside down?
Paul Cassidy wrote:
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Okay, I'm a little embarassed now because the picture has been photoshopped. It was flipped vertically before uploading. The installation actually looks like this:
The projectors are angled upwards.
quote:Mark: I've never seen an Imax camera that does multiple pulldowns per frame except for some animation/process cameras that did 3 5-perf pulldowns for each frame. I think a special camera with multiple pulldowns was made for the Chronos time-lapse photography (not by Imax) but can't say for sure.
Imax originally did their pull down in two steps although some of the later cameras do it in one step. Unlike a projector it only has to go through once so any strain the film and perfs is getting is only a one time deal.
quote:But then Dave then went on with stuff about 3D cameras, Imax etc. and then did not post a picture.
This has certainly strayed from any relevance to forum pictures...
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Joe really needs to get out more!
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out of me! His name is Davey and HE was the one in charge, no doubt! He was cool tho. He ate two 130oz bags of popcorn and drank about 1/2 large cup of Coke, maybe Diet.... LOL.. He had a waist size of 32" the last time I ran into him. Also, as is inherent to his breed, his fangs were loosening and breaking out. Must have been the Coke... That damn thing sat and watched the movie, along with Arthur the Lion (pics to follow), some Siberian Tigers and Bubbles (The elephant). Sadly, Bubbles had to spend her day in the trailer as we felt she might break our marble flooring in our lobby area. 
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quote:That is the framing adjustment ever.
What is the part with the lever just below the shutter for?
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I only go to Pizza Crud on a buffet day when I am in a rush and the urge to take more lipitor pills overcome me. The food at Movenpik ( like an upscale Denny's ) in Geneva was better
for me clealiness is the most important thing to keep a better projection.
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quote:You'll see "The Little Chicago" mentioned in Balaban & Katz's ads from the 20's (the Chicago was a B&K house.) It wasn't really a vaudeville rehearsal space, but a rehearsal space for the brief stage shows which accompanied early silent shows at the B&K movie theaters (like many other silent era palaces did). The "Little Chicago" ads usually just show corporate types screening movies there. It really was a sort of "staging area" for the stage shows & film presentations before they moved them out into the house.
The old Plitt Screening Room in Chicago up on the 7th floor of the Chicago Theater, once a vaudville rehearsal space known as "The Little Chicago."
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How many screens do you have in this multiplex ? and where is the location ? I'll be glad to see a movie there ! ) and I return them mag up.
quote:Interesting, that no has got in trouble for that. All three companys I work for would go off their nut if sent internal pictures of their cinemas. I don't really know why this is.
if you want to post more than 2 pictures of your theater it MUST be sent in as a formal Picture Warehouse submission.
How did it happen?
Did the shoes get damaged as well? Would suspect there was quite a bit of metal debris and noise if the "children" kept their eyes and ears open enough to notice.
quote:I always thought that 35/70mm sprockets were made of alloy [read: non-ferric] materials because they cannot become magnetized and damage the 70mm mag tracks...
The sprocket is of necessity a very lightweight alloy to keep the mass low
above from Steve. I found that the kids, when they would clean the gate. They would knock loose the bands and the bands would slice into the teeth of the 35mm part of the spocket. I ordered two new spockets from Mann Theatres. But later I showed the kids how to clean that type of .
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quote:I remember as a kid reading about the earth's magnetic poles, and how hammering the end of a bar of steel while holding it N/S
The intermittent motion of the intermittent sprocket may slightly magnetize a hardened steel sprocket (due to the starting and stopping in the same direction). The constant speed sprockets wouldn't magnetize themselves since they don't start and stop 'at all'.
What happened to that place?!?! 
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quote:Don't forget that the film is coated in wide rolls, that then have to be slit and perforated. So even the raw stock has a limit on how long it can be, even if it didn't need to be shipped in roll form:
Heck, Steve, if the unprocessed film can go from Rochester to Hollywood and Toronto that way, then hopefully we can eliminate lab splices every damn 6k.
quote:Prints with BH-1866 perforations would be used for applications requiring pin registration, like background plates. Could also be used as leader to splice with polyester printing negatives.
I see that 2383 is available in BH1866; why would anyone want to do that? You can't use 2383 for internegatives, can you?
quote:To test this, I just printed the first page of the new home page
Images uploaded prior to November 11, 2002 are not 'affected' by the measures taken against the problem. New custom software was implemented on that date and images from then on are affected
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quote:Henry Gonzales Shakespeare (III)
To get fingered or not to get fingered - that's the question
quote:What lens?
You've got some nastiness on the lens.
quote:How long was it until you could use public restrooms again?
I've had ths before.
quote:Brad refused my picture because it had an urn in it. He said he had nothing against finials in particular, but personally he just really didn't like urns. I was sort of taken aback.
Now why not take a picture of yourself and submit it?
quote:Why then did you make an exception for Adam?
No William, your face was not visible in your picture submission. If I permitted people to send in a shot of their backside, then lots of people would and that defeats the purpose.
quote:Buffoon! Can't the doctors control your doofusness with drugs or something? These photographs were made with newly-designed, precision, handcrafted instruments.
Unless this is one of those high-school projects where you use a large box with basically a pinhole cut into it and leave it sit for a long period of time.
Actually, I don't have time to play with member photos right now ... I'm too busy with Cinematour.
quote:It's a Technicolor 3-Strip camera (note the beamsplitter):
Steve, I give up, what's the camera?
Trinity Church is under renovation right now, anyway, and is surrounded by scaffolding and chain-link fences.
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Just kidding Gracia. Good picture of you though!
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Amusement Acquisition: a Kodak Moment
Randolph Court
03:23 PM Apr. 16, 1998 PT
You're strapped into a hollowed-out log about to drop 50 feet straight into the water. With your hair standing on end and your jaw in your lap, your face becomes a portrait of exhilaration, panic, and motion sickness. Best of all, it's on film –- cameras installed on thrill rides at theme parks from Disneyland's Splash Mountain to the looping Great Bear at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania catch you mid-ride and then sell your pictures for about US$10 so you can remember that moment forever.
Now the folks in Rochester, New York, want to make that a Kodak moment. Hoping to bolster a little corner of its vast -– but struggling -- US$14.5 billion imaging empire, Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday that it acquired Rave Reviews Innovative Concessions Inc. and Rave Reviews of Canada for an undisclosed sum. The two affiliated companies design and install photographic systems for thrill rides and other image-related businesses in theme parks.
"It's one more indication that we're very enthusiastic about this business -- and that we intend to be a leader in it for the long term," said Doug Pileri, general manager of Kodak's "themed entertainment" business, in a statement. "Current parks are expanding. New ones are being built. All of them provide great channels for our expanding variety of Kodak's entertainment-imaging products."
Kodak also posted first quarter profits of $225 million on Wednesday, up 50 percent from the $149 million of a year ago. But that success followed a year in which the world's largest maker of photographic film announced it would have to slash its payroll by 16,000 workers in a bid to shed $1 billion in costs. It has been suffering losses in part due to stiff competition from Fuji Photo Film of Japan.
But Kodak is not wasting its energy in a stubborn bid to hold on to its eroding share of the consumer print market. Instead, the company has been turning its sights to new markets, like digital imaging, where it saw somewhat encouraging signs this quarter -- that business improved from a loss of $140 million in last year's first quarter to a loss of only $55 million this quarter.
Kodak’s entertainment-imaging division, which includes its motion-picture film business, showed increased sales from 1996 to 1997. One part of entertainment imaging is the themed entertainment business, which provides imaging products and services to theme parks, studio-owned retail ventures, movie theaters, and the like. That's where Rave Reviews fits in.
Kodak said the Rave companies will be dissolved and integrated into the rest of the themed entertainment businesses operated under Kodak's entertainment-imaging division, which is working on a whole range of newfangled variations on the photography business. That means stuff like sticker photos, fantasy theaters that allow you to superimpose an image of yourself into any scene you want (say sliding into home plate in a major league baseball game), and dynamic imaging technologies that make it possible to put a few seconds of full-motion video onto a trading card.
Kodak has also developed its own still-photo system for the thrill ride market. Rave Reviews also developed a video system, but that's not the reason Kodak bought the company, according to Mark Stolper, director of strategic alliances and portfolio management for Kodak's Entertainment Imaging businesses.
"The purpose of purchasing [Rave Reviews] was not a tech play," Stolper said. "It was more of a distribution play."
Stolper said theme parks have been signing long-term contracts with little imaging companies like Rave Reviews and RX Technology to provide the thrill-ride photography system for individual rides. Rave Reviews claimed 40 installations in six theme parks in the United States and Canada.
And the photos seem to be popular. People apparently love to be caught in the act of doing whatever they do in that moment of wild surrender: whether they scream, cry, or take off their clothes. A number of young women apparently prefer the latter, as the Flash Mountain site has chronicled.
By buying Rave Reviews. Kodak immediately lands 40 installations in six theme parks -- including four Paramount Parks -- where Rave Reviews has established itself.
"It helps us build the thrill-ride photography business we're already in, and it allows us to expand our distribution system to provide other added- value Kodak products, such as sticker kiosks, and fantasy theaters," said Stolper.
Stolper said it is too soon to know how big the thrill-ride photography business will be in the United States, but he pointed optimistically to the successes of other new businesses elsewhere. Sticker kiosks, which are just catching on in the United States, are already a US$1 billion a year business in Japan.
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We take member pics any way we get them
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quote:Over 400,000 people die annually from overexposure to DiHydrogen Monoxide!
I made one that says "DANGER - DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE" and I'm going to put it on a water fountain soon.
quote:It didn't turn sour until you started posting facts that make people sad.
Jiggidy J-Pyt wrote:
As you note, the thread was in a jesting mode. It didn't need to turn sour.
quote:If a person close to you died a needless death, you would feel differently. I can't feel anything but sad about an accidental or tragic death, no matter where it occurs. Not only for the person, but for their family.
I'm not too sad about death. I would think differently if people didn't feel the need to have so many damned kids. Really people, are so many kids REALLY necessary?
quote:Bitch bitch bitch, its 20 here, and it snowed for like 5 hours here, this is considered tropical
It's a frigid 60 degrees here is Texas.
), now it's 5" of rain in an HOUR, now this...
quote:http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/15/161411.php
A panda goes into a bar and says, "Give me a beer and a sandwich."
After he finishes his meal, he pulls out his six-shooter, shoots up the bar, and makes a quick exit.
The proprietor runs after him yelling, "Why did you do that?"
The panda responds, "Because that's what pandas do. If you don't believe me look it up in the dictionary."
Later that night the proprietor looks "panda" up in the dictionary. It said:
panda (pan da), n., pl. -das. 1. A white-and-black bearlike mammal native to central China. A panda eats shoots and leaves. 2. A reddish brown, racoonlike mammal of the Himalayas.
A panda eats shoots and leaves?
or
A panda eats, shoots, and leaves
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"Eats, Shoots and Leaves"
This new book, subtitled "The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," has become an instant best-seller in England. Its author is Lynne Truss, a London theater critic and columnist whose zeal for proper punctuation is tempered by a wry sense of humor.
The title derives from one of the book's numerous jokes. A panda goes into a bar, orders a sandwich, fires a gun and heads for the door. Why did he do that? The barman calls after him. The panda tosses him a badly punctuated wildlife manual. "I'm a panda," he says. "Look me up." The barman finds the relevant page, which says, "Panda. Large black-and-white, bearlike mammal native of China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Truss calls semicolons and colons "old-fashioned, middle-class, and dangerously addictive," and says exclamation points are "like laughing at your own jokes." Ouch! I use far too many of these, and will henceforth try to cease and desist whenever possible.
She also notes that "Gertrude Stein called the comma servile and refused to have anything to do with it." Memo, to self: fewer commas, please!
You can order the book from amazon.uk now, or wait 'til next year when it's published in the U.S.: Truss has received a $110,000 advance! Oops, there I go again!
quote:Don't feel bad, Scott. Size doesn't matter! It's how you use it.
I've only shot 16mm 1P. I feel so...small.
quote:Size Matters, according to Godzilla
Size doesn't matter!
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aww that's so cute!!!
quote:In a very sick disgusting sort of way...
aww that's so cute!!!
quote:Yes, only about 1/4 of the whole image area. Plus it was tungsten available light (Kodak MAX 800 is daylight balance), and there was about 1 stop underexposure. I estimate the shutter speed was only about 1/30 second. John Edwards is a dynamic speaker and moved around quite a bit, so holding focus and avoiding motion blur were issues.
Looks like an enlargement of a very small segment of negative.
quote:You can hand-hold at 1/30 without camera shake?! Anything slower than 1/125 and I need a tripod.
I estimate the shutter speed was only about 1/30 second.
quote:http://anniebees.com/Photos/AviationWelcome.htm
Spotting and Photography in St. Maarten is a breeze ...
Obviously the most popular place for spotting and aviation photography is at Maho Beach, especially the Sunset Bar located on the southern side of the beach. From here you'll get some fantastic views of the aircraft landing on runway 9. You can shoot from either side of Maho Beach and you can walk right up to the fence at the end of the runway, it's only about 5 foot high, and shoot from there as well. Some have even taken shots from the upper floors of the hotel on the northern side of the beach and gotten spectacular shots.
Beware though, the tendency will be to settle in at the Sunset Bar, enjoy some food and drink while waiting for the next arrival. And, I assure you, you will do some waiting. Before I continue let's talk about the traffic you can expect.
First let me tell you that I was there during the non-peak season so the traffic was a bit lighter than you can expect during the peak season. Saturdays and Sundays were the heaviest traffic days with additional flights that only fly on weekends. But Monday to Friday did offer some nice traffic for those with patience. The highlight of each day of course was the Air France A340, followed by the American 757s, of which there were about three each day. Then once weekly there was the KLM 747 (now an MD-11 twice weekly and 747 once weekly), the Air Holland 767 and the Corsair 747. Each came once a week during the non-peak season, but I've heard are more frequent during the peak season. On Saturdays and Sundays there was the Continental 737, a US Air 757 and a Westjet 737.
After the heavies come the smaller regional airlines. A few BWIA 737s and the Dutch Caribbean
MD-82. Of course you'll get your fill of the Caribbean Star, Caribbean Sun and Liat Dash 8s.
They're like weeds at Princess Juliana along with a myriad of private aircraft that come and go during the day. There is also some cargo traffic that you might catch. I was lucky to catch a DC-3, Amerijet 727 with winglets, and a Convair CV-440, but you never know when they operate.
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Welcome to our commercial aviation photography web site. Selecting a link on the bottom of this page will allow you to view hundreds of commercial aviation photos we've taken dating back to 1971. You can view the photos in thumbnail or large format and order prints if you like. You can also research many of the spotting locations we've taken pictures from at various airports and discover the
equipment we use. Enjoy!!
It looks like it was salvaged from the bottom of the ocean.
quote: Joe RediferUhoh. Then I must be a racist, a sexist, and a holocaust revisionist because I don't laugh at BET, Lifetime, and fell asleep on Schindler's List.
If you don't laugh, you are a homophobe.
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quote: Steve KrausLED-based displays have virtually taken over the entire outdoor electronic display market. Full motion video LED displays are very expensive. You'll only find them in very high profile locations. Chicago's Millenium Park easily qualifies as such a place. Barco put together a cool LED video system for the Fashion Mall in Las Vegas. Times Square is lousy with those things. These displays are also naturals for giant shopping mall signs or signs for Indian gaming casinos.
Is this sort of LED display the new standard for large outdoor video displays?
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quote: Paul MayerLEDs have advantages over tungsten lamps in more areas than just sound readers.
Display--12.5 million LEDs vs. 1.9 million lamps
Pixel count--4,168,704 vs. 477,664 pixels
Pixel pitch--6.5" vs. 2.0"
Resolution--7,552 x 552 vs. 2596 x 154
Power usage--2,200,000 vs. 7,833,000 Watts at full intensity
Lamp life--50,000 vs. 5,000 hours
I've replaced a few Oxygen sensors, and an instrument cluster. 
quote: Dan LyonsI don't!! Look at how his feet are on that platter! And what's he holding on to? Hopefully not that black thing wrapped around the air duct. Shouldn't he be mopping that dirty floor?
btw: i want a spider-projectionistboy! not fair.
quote: William HooperOh how disgusting. A very strange thing to ask.
Where are the pictures of your tonsils?
AFAIK the doctor didn't save them in a jar or take pics of them lying on a bloody tray. 
Example, fully loaded audio racks in crates and "empty" amplifier boxes for wedging the crates for shipment.
quote: Richard FowlerThat's exactly what this one was doing. Just buffering the little boxes in the big box. I just hadn't seen them labeled like that. Of course, it makes perfect sense so you're not worried about missing contents.
for wedging the crates for shipment.
quote: Daryl C. W. O'SheaWhat is this John, no link???
Intentional product life cycle control. Internet Explorer 1.0 is a 16 bit program first released as part of the Internet Jumpstart Kit as part of the Plus package, in July 1995, while at the same time added to the Windows 95 release package (the Plus package was on the market before the OS package due to inventory).
It was hastily released in part to get employees to stop accessing Microsoft's company webserver (conveniently located in a hallway outside someone's office) with the Netscape browser.
Version 1.0 was simply a branded version of NCSA Mosiac which would, at the time, only compile nicely as a 16 bit app. Version 2.0, released in November of 1995 was 32 bit. Since the 32 bit binary was planned before the release of the 16 bit binary version, the 1.0 (16 bit) version was intentionally programmed to only run under Windows 95.
I didn't even think of that after tying that paper around my head. 
caching test.
quote: Jason BlackScuse my ignorance. Does a mainframe helmet connect to your cerebral cortex and allow you to run a helmet network
I, myself, have an Icon mainframe helmet.
It would have had to be combined with Smell-O-Vision!quote:Yeah Mark!
It would have had to be combined with Smell-O-Vision!
I made a shitload of $$$ on doing a rip-off of that! 
quote: Dan LyonsI dunno, the ceramic armodillo thing or whatever is kinda working for me...
I like the Pink Flamingo... but not much else.
quote: Steve KrausUmmm... NO!
Any explanation?
quote: Paul MayerPaul, I pity ANY "shader" or "colorist".... what a f*cking BORING job!
I pity the video shaders trying to get those pictures to match.
Paid for college and flight lessons.
quote: Paul MayerI agree Paul about the PC-70s. I also like that big ol' POS RCA TK-42 for nostalgic reasons!
The PC-70 is still a personal favorite, arguably Philips' best tube camera ever.
quote: Jennifer PanYou're lucky you didn't have some of my art history classes! For one class, I had to have both H.W. Janson's History of Art and Gardner's Art Throughout the Ages. Each book runs about 800 pages, is big and heavy (not to mention expensive, around $50 each). It was a real pain in the ass to lug those things around on a commute from Staten Island to midtown Manhattan.
I'm glad my art class doesn't require us to have a book.
quote: Steve GuttagYeah, you sit there trying to write down lots of notes in near dark conditions...all while fighting off the need to sleep. For the last week of class you sit there in terror wondering how you're going to do on the slide show final exam. The Medici Family? Who the hell are they? Well, it wasn't quite that bad. I found Gene Stavis' film history exam at SVA to be a tougher challenge.
Art History...code named..."Art in the Dark"...since mostly people sit in a darkened classroom and look at slides of Art.
I want to test them out.
... Its so cute though
The trip to Sedona was gorgeous also. 
quote:http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/flagstaff.html
The names of the spring at the old location underwent several name changes, starting with Antelope, then Flagstaff, and then--with the creation of the new town and railroad--becoming Old Town Spring. In 1882, there were ten buildings at Old Town, but in 1883 business moved to the new railroad depot and by 1884 Old Town was almost deserted. When the post office was established at the new location, the name Flagstaff was the natural choice.
quote: Bobby HendersonWhile that pic may be funny to some, I sincerely feel sorry for the people that lost all including their reminders/mementos of their past cuz of the stupidity and carelessness of the FD.
And the house burned down.
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By Debi DeSilver Terry, Staff writer
dterry@lawton-constitution.com
A death is being investigated as suspicious after firefighters discovered a body at a burning home in northwest Lawton Friday.
A revolver was found near the body, confirmed Lawton Police Department Capt. W.H. Mathis, commander, Criminal Investigations Division. However, Mathis would not confirm or deny that any shell casings were found.
"We are still treating this as a suspicious death," Mathis said. "We are waiting for the fire department to determine the cause of the fire." The body, identified as Charles A. Gilley Jr., 47, has been sent to the medical examiner's office in Oklahoma City, Mathis said.
City of Lawton Fire Marshal Mark Mitchell said the fire agency is working in conjunction with the police department to try and put the pieces together on what happened.
"When our guys made entry through the front door, a victim was discovered in the living room area. The officer in charge cautioned his people that this may be a possible crime scene. They checked for signs of life and didn't find any. It did not appear that the victim expired as the result of the fire. Our men tried to protect that area while extinguishing the fire," Mitchell said.
The Lawton Fire Department dispatch received the call to respond to 1911 NW Glenn at 12:37 p.m., according to records. LPD Lt. Rusty Wright said the fire was called in by a neighbor down the street.
Wright said that the cause of the fire and death are still under investigation.
"It's such a mess in there," Mitchell said. "We are working in an area right now that is about to collapse. We're not sure exactly where the fire started. We are looking at a northwest corner. That area is a possibility, but it is unsound. I really don't know if we are going to be able to call it or not. There is a considerable amount of material stored in there."
Mitchell said three engine trucks, a ladder truck, a brush truck, a rescue truck and a deputy fire chief all initially responded to the blaze.
"Our guys made a good effort; a good save. They were hampered by the fact that this is an older home. Hopefully what we find out from our investigation will help the police department form a theory or hypothesis on if this was intentional, accidental or foul play," Mitchell said.
One of the fire trucks responding to the fire on Glenn crashed into a city pole at the intersection of Fort Sill Boulevard and Ferris Avenue, said LPD Capt. Angie Chiarappa. She said she believed that the wet conditions contributed to the accident.
One firefighter was taken to the hospital, treated for a lower back injury and released, said LFD Capt. Lonnie London. He said the firefighter has already returned to work.
"We couldn't turn," London said, who was the officer on the truck. "The wet road conditions definitely were a factor."
Lawton Constitution reporter Kevin J. Shutt contributed to this article.
quote: Bobby HendersonHere's my question: couldn't the fire truck simply have backed up away from the pole and on to the fire?
Yes, this happened when the truck was trying to make it to a house fire. And the house burned down. I think some other fire trucks got to scene in time to roast some marshmallows over the smoldering embers.
More lewd LED and resistor pix here.
quote: Steve KrausFile size is 475387 bytes.
Do dial-up folks avoid this thread altogether?
You should build a portfolio and start showing it around the 3D animation shops.
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Forget Halloween. Dios de los Muertos kicks ass.
quote: Scott NorwoodUnisys' US patent on LZW expired last summer. Their patents in other countries have been / are expiring this year.
Daryl--didn't the GIF patent expire?
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quote:I may spring these on some of my female friends and watch them get angrier and angrier as they get down the page.
1. Have dinner ready: Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal - on time. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him, and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospects of a good meal are part of the warm welcome needed.
2. Prepare yourself: Take 15 minutes to rest so you will be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.
3. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gathering up school books, toys, paper, etc. Then run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift, too.
4. Prepare the children: Take a few minutes to wash the children's hands and faces if they are small, comb their hair, and if necessary, change their clothes. They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part.
5. Minimize the noise: At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of washer, dryer, dishwasher or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet. Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile and be glad to see him.
6. Some Don'ts: Don't greet him with problems or complaints. Don't complain if he's late for dinner. Count this as minor compared with what he might have gone through that day.
7. Make him comfortable: Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.
8. Listen to him: You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.
9. Make the evening his: Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or to other places of entertainment; instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to be home and relax.
10. The goal: Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can relax.
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Additional information: An image purported to be a digitized photocopy of the 13 May 1955 edition of a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly circulates with this message, but the graphic is a fake, created by simply adding text around a 1950s-era magazine graphic. (The image itself even bears an "Advertising Archives" legend along its side.)
quote: Jennifer PanHmmm... I don't know, Jen. Many of the points there make very good sense. I'll have to think about it a bit...
Are you insinuating something there Mr. Harper?
quote: Mark LensenmayerMaybe it is, but I think it reflects the spririt of the time very well and I am sure you might easily find similar stuff in actual magazines of the 50s. There was a hilarious film in Germany in the late 80s or so
I think the "Good Wife" article is a fake.
quote: Ethan HarperJFC Ethan! I'm really surprised you asked that question! I "used" to think you were a cool and smart guy... but I guess I'll have to re-think all that.
Why is Felix the Cat walking back and forth?
quote: Jennifer PanYeah! Me too!
I really dislike the cold or anyplace that snows frequently... So I would never be up there.
i.e. The guy from Coldplay, Chris Martin... the guy from Something Corporate, Andrew McMahon. OMG, the way they play the piano... makes me love music so much.
quote:Boy I really feel like an outcast...
quote: Jennifer Pan
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I really dislike the cold or anyplace that snows frequently... So I would never be up there.
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quote:If the I meant Interstate such a road would be an East/West route located somewhere between I-40 and I-70 which would put it just south of the middle latitude of the country, say along the state lines that align with Kansas' southern boundary.
WTF is I-60? It must be way up north like in North Dakota or some other God forsaken place that snows like hell!
... I guess I was smoking way too much of the US H-60 to actually discern the differences between the meaning of the names. I had a feeling it was called something else. Oh well...
Other than Joe, of course.
quote: Some guybut failed to elaborate what the odd and even numbers mean. In your context it sounds like an Interstate can only run horizontally. You failed at conveying your message. You are BANNED for 2 minutes.
If the I meant Interstate such a road would be an East/West route
quote: Joe RediferNope. Here is the North Dakota state capitol building. It is the only skyscraper in the entire state.
They pretty much all look like that, more or less
quote: MikeI said PRETTY MUCH, not all.
Nope.
quote: Hot JoeyWhile I certainly agree with you Joe, especially since it SNOWS and is COLD up there in ND; perhaps Josh would disagree with you.
PS - North Dakota sucks...
quote: Joe RediferYES it is!
Just because I don't know how to spell "North" is no reason to bag on me.
quote: SteveySee that dude in the green cap? He is the reason why Chicago is hated by the rest of America.
quote: Phil HillIt does. Under a blacklight.
BTW Jen, I don't know if "IT" glows afterwards...
quote: Phil HillKodak (Dr. Fred Kolb) actually presented a technical paper and demonstration of a total immersion wet gate projector at a SMPTE Conference in the early 1960's. It completely covered base-side and superficial emulsion-side scratches, and greatly improved focus stability. The drawback was the use of chlorinated solvent in the booth:
"Now showing on our new wet-gate projector..."
quote: Steve GuttagNo but the bugs were really bad and loved the light source!
And then the thunderstorms came...
quote: MarkSo Mark, how'd they do it?
Thats really easy to do and it looks like a small Sony or Panasonic CRT!
quote: Jon MillerNo no no nonnonononononooooo....
Awww?
AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!quote: Steve KrausJust one of Philo Farnsworth's ideas that caused RCA lots of headaches and that they eventually HAD TO liscense from Farnsworth to begin producing and selling TV's.
Well when you think about it using the horizontal scan frequency to generate high voltage using a very small efficient transformer is pretty clever. I'll admit I would not have thought of it. I would been putting something akin to a neon sign transformer in each tv.
quote: Steve KrausOh, you mean like this........
I guess an early day videophile perfectionist if there were any would have turned down the horizontal and vertical deflection to allow the entire rectangular raster to be seen within that round tube face.
quote: Mark GulbrandsenLooks pretty close to an HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio!
Oh, you mean like this........
quote:Should I say that Emerson was very advanced in 1948 or.....
Looks pretty close to an HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio!
as if the Tesla-coil concept was implemented quite well. Very good picture, too!
quote: Randy StankeyHahahahaha That's too funny, Randy! The 1st thing I noticed was what appeared to be a breast-enhancement operation gone VERY wrong! Hahahahha
...the first thing I noticed was those two green lines down the right hand side of the film.
quote: Joe RediferOf course I have 1.66 lenses & plates. Don't make me laugh. This is a professional screening room so of course we do. 1.37 too. If that is the optimum way to see any of the films you cite that is easily accomplished. Native Super 35 too.
I have seen quite a few films (like Aladdin, Nightmare Before Christmas) come out that were 1.66 or something retarded like that. Just because you showed them in 1.85 since you didn't have a 1.66 aperture and lens doesn't make the movie a 1.85 movie.
quote:They're Simplex E-7s with 1950s-vintage Magnarcs. I don't recall whether the SHs were SH-1000s or RCA 1040s. I have seen pictures of the projectors before, but have not had the chance to go there and check it out while in LA.
What are the projectors,soundheads & [lamps]?
quote: Joe Redifer
Is that last picture the sound system for the new theater's big house?
quote: Steve KrausWiseasses. Both of you.
No, that would be the CP50 on the shelf. Note how he's test running the new theatre's powerful HVAC system there on the floor.
quote: Phil HillGood call, Phil! (it's a 12AX7, btw)...
So Aaron, series filament 35C5, 35C5, 35W4, & 12AX7/12AU7?
Here's a closer look:
quote:Sort of looks like our shop too. A big mess and junk all over the place. We go from one job to another and clean up about every 6th job or so
Some pics from my shop, where I am currently building sound racks for our new 12-plex:
! quote: Paul MayerYep. all the heaters are connected in series across the 117V power line, eliminating the need for a large and costly power transformer:
Am I reading those numbers correctly? 35V filaments?
quote: Aaron SisemoreYeah, I found out about that when I was 9... WAY B4 the wide neutral blade plug! Ouch! Shocking! Yikes!
...such circuits is that one side of the power line is connected to the chassis...
quote:Typical tube complement in the 1950's:
Possibly the longest lived consumer electronic product design was the five tube "AC/DC" AM radio. Virtually every household had at least a few over the years. These radios were low cost, and one expensive item designed out was the power transformer. Thus the series heater string, and using the powerline directly rectified for B+ power. No power transformer also made it possible for smaller and lighter sets to be made.
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Ed Engelken mentioned the potential risks associated with AC/DC receiver chassis in the October 2004 “Wireless Connection” column featuring his restoration of a National SW-54 SWL receiver (Photo A). Even more recently, a post in an Internet antique radio chat forum related the tragic electrocution of a young boy when he touched an outdoor water pump. Several years have past since we’ve discussed AC/DC receivers, so perhaps now’s a good time to review what you need to know to safely service and restore these sets. Line voltages can be deadly, so always treat any radio with respect, on or off the bench.
AC/DC Radios, What Are They?
AC/DC sets were designed to work on both AC and DC line voltages, and until fairly recently you could still find areas with DC power in larger cities. These sets used a tube lineup that was particularly suited for this service. For example, the typical 1950s AA5 tube lineup was a 12BE6 converter, 12BA6 IF amplifier, 12AV6 detector/first audio, 50C5 audio power amplifier, and 35W4 rectifier. These tubes were ideal sets using a series filament string that totaled near 110 volts, permitting them to directly operate from the AC or DC line voltage. Did you know that the “A” suffix on tubes meant they were specifically designed for series string operation? The filaments in A-suffix tubes were designed to withstand and share the initial startup surge current at turn-on. Other variations of the AA5 added a sixth tube for an RF or second IF stage.
AA5: The All-American Five
These simple AC/DC radio were nicknamed the “All American Five,” or AA5 for short, in honor of the seven-pin miniature 150-mA tube lineups consisting of the aforementioned 6BE6, 6BA6, 6AV6, 50C5, and 35W4 vacuum tube lineup. Earlier AA5 radios incorporated an octal-based tube lineup, generally using a 12SA7 converter, 12SK7 IF, 12SQ7 det/first audio, 50L6 audio, and a 35Z5 rectifier. Purists argue—and probably correctly so—that only those sets using the earlier octal tube lineup are true examples of AA5 radios.
quote: Kenneth WuepperI've got to wonder if the Uptown in D.C. will be a fabric store in a year or two... fabric stores seem to be big buisness these days.
Shortly thereafter they used manager/operators.
Now it's a Hancock Fabric store.
quote: Scott D. NeffIt's the World theatre in Cedar Rapids Iowa. I've got more pics of the building, but don't want to tick off anybody by posting more theatre pics without permission.
Which theatre is that? And do you have more pics?
quote: Jeffrey KornsGreat stuff there. The picture of the curtain warmer at the World alone is worth the theatre geek visit! When do the auditorium pathology pictures of the Majestic/parking garage arrive?
I've compiled a history of the old downtown theatres in my hometown on my website www.jeffkorns.com
quote: John HegelI would agree. I remember the theatre when it was full size (a changeover house by the way- now the arc lamp housings are at the Paramount as "spares"). But I guess the alternative would be a parking lot or office building. The big thing that haunts the group that runs it is royalties. The calculation for the royalty payment on a play, or musical, is based on the # of seats in the house not the # of tickets sold.
Looking at Jeffrey's site you have got to wonder what they were thinking when they started remodeling the Iowa theater.
quote: William HooperWhen it's not so doggone cold! It's actually tough to get a good shot of the back wall of the stage for the Majestic, cause it's in a dark and narrow alley. The pictures I took on my last search for "where are they now" shots didn't turn out too good.
When do the auditorium pathology pictures of the Majestic/parking garage arrive?
quote:Because Africatown is in Mobile.
Or perhaps even Africatown,
quote: Joe. Redifer, not the coffeeOh PUHLEEZE Joe! You know I have NO control over what you mods choose for my ID pic. You guys must have 30+ pics of me... many unflattering and many you and Adam have "modified" for your and his own perverted enjoyment. So don't give me that line! HA!
Sorry Phil, nothing's changing until you change your "old geezer" pic to something better!
quote: Adam MartinAnd then there's Phils house above Hollywood......
....Koreatown is in Los Angeles; Germantown is in Ohio. Jamaica is in New York City and Jamaicatown is in Toronto. Disneyland is in Anaheim.
quote: Randy StankeyLike the site says, people & things related to Lesbos are called Lesbian.
So, what do they call people who live on the island of Lesbos?
quote: wikipedia
The word "lesbian" is derived from the island's name. This originates in the poems of Sappho of Lesbos, where love between women was described.
quote: wikipediaMytilene, also known as Mitylene in Thucydides, various Bible translations, etc., is about 10 miles east of Montgomery, Alabama.
It [Lesbos] is also the name of its main island, which is also called Mytilene
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In modern Greek, the island's name is Lesvos and its inhabitants are thus named Lesvonians or Lesviots (rather than "Lesbians").
quote: Adam MartinThat's very strange. It doesn't have the smeared look of having moved the camera, or camera shake look on the walls, seats, etc. It's mainly around the screen & ceiling, the ceiling being flat & lighted by reflected light from the screen. My guess is that 1) a movie was running & it wasn't just white light on the screen 2) the humidity if the theatre contributed to exposures at odd positions of light near the screen not just from the direction of the projection beam, but also reflections in other directions 3) possibly something in the camera at areas which are greatly overexposed (if it's a film camera, it doesn't look like internal reflections or fogging, but if it's a digital camera, who knows what's going on in there).
Scott Neff took this photo and must have moved the camera before the exposure was complete.
quote: Adam MartinIt's called a time lapse exposure guys. If there is any camera movement during the exposure, it shows up like that.
Scott Neff took this photo and must have moved the camera before the exposure was complete.
I would prefer white or pearl though.
quote: Randy StankeyIf the camera moves, everything in the picture is affected in the same way, in the same amount.
The picture is blurry from the camera movement.
quote: Randy StankeyThere's ALWAYS humidity in an auditorium that has had people in & out of it, & sometimes even without frequent traffic. You can tell in exposures even in empty theaters by the more nimbus-like areas around light fixtures even when they've been blown out in overexposure.
Oh, and that picture of the band on the stage...
They probably used a "hazer".
. And we just about had Jen in Phils backseat too.....
quote: Dan LyonsHey Ed Jurich, are you out there?
Great idea to paint an auditorium white.
quote:William,
Look at what the Hooterville Ladies Garden Club now running the Mobile Saenger did in their 4.5 million dollar "restoration":
. I think the saying Stupid is as stupid does fits this one and the Hooterville ladies are sure stupid
quote: Adam MartinThat may explain some of them, because I have a ton of digital photos with those kinds of artifacts in them. But they're generally one solid color, like some of the ones in this photo.
It's likely to be the flash reflecting off of large dust particles in the air.
so where are the rest of the pictures
It could have been worse....I came up with the idea yesterday while answering e-mail for the drive-in. The bosses kids were feeding their hamsters and I saw the bottle and though hummm.....how could I use that. I wish I had alcohol to blame, but I'm more creative without it!
quote: Brent Neal JonesPerhaps you should start drinking... you seem to be delusional without it.
I wish I had alcohol to blame, but I'm more creative without it!
An ordinary FilmGuard bottle will never look the same...
quote: Brent Neal JonesBrent, sorry to have come down so hard on you... I have enjoyed many of your posts.
And Phil...I figured you most of all would appreciate my "Blunt" form of humor.
quote: Brent Neal JonesUnless my memory of biology lessons back in the fourth form is seriously defective, you would have had a big logistical problem in doing so (unless a willing volunteer could have been found, which I somehow doubt)!
Disclaimer: due to negative feelings towards last post, I failed to demonstrate.
quote:oh dear god no... Side fact: Douche was created by a man in the first place. icky.
Inroducing the NEW Film-Guard Douche!
quote:I did, and I don't get it. What's so funny about the pictures?
Ponder this transition!
quote: Mike HenanMike,
Ponder this transition!
quote: Phil HillYou did send me the catalog after all..
Jeremy sent me a pic of his "toys" which he keeps in his bedroom dresser...top drawer.
quote: Mark GulbrandsenGosh Mark, Let's see...
New latest medicine for what(ever) ails Phil.
quote:Or worse... instead of landing the plane, the pilot is busy taking pictures!
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That cockpit picture scares the shit out of me. The plane is fixing to hit the runway and there's no one flying the plane!!!
Glad to hear you survived your trip in the simulator for one Phil. Even the DC-10 simulator has been known to hurt people.
quote: Paul Mayer was the last to postWell I've now survived three trips in a real one (and all within the last 2 years, so they must be getting pretty ancient by now)! Six lives left, I guess.
Glad to hear you survived your trip in the simulator for one Phil.
quote: Jarryd BeardWhat kind of burrito places do they have in China Town?
very good burrito place we ate at in Chinatown
quote:Basically, it's the number of units of water required to eliminate all heat from a hot food.
Heat in peppers is measured in Scoville
Heat Units, named for Wilbur Scoville
who worked for the Parke Davis
Pharmaceutical Company. In 1912 he
was working on a muscle cream that used
capsaicin, the substance in peppers that
give them their heat. Scoville conducted
a series of tests with whole ground chilies
mixed in a solution of water & sugar. He
had a panel of 5 testers sip the solution
in increased dilutions until it reached the
point that it no longer burned the mouth.
Lot's of Prylosec & Rolaids in the room
(at least there would have been for me). A
number was then assigned to each pepper
based on how much it needed to be diluted
before you could not feel the heat.
One part of chili-heat per one million
drops of water was then rated at 1.5
Scoville Heat Units or SHU for short.
When asked, Scoville called his test
"The Scoville Organaleptic Test."
Measured in multiples of 100 units,
the pungency of chili peppers finds
itself at zero Scoville Units in your
basic green & colored bell peppers ,
while the hottest of hot peppers the
Red Savina variety Habanero chili
ranks in at a whopping 350,000 SHU.
quote:
Date: 25 MAY 1979
Time: 15:04 CDT
Type: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
Operator: American Airlines
Registration: N110AA
Msn / C/n: 46510/22
Year built: 1972
Total airframe hrs: 19871 hours
Engines: 3 General Electric CF6-6K
Crew: 13 fatalities / 13 on board
Passengers: 258 fatalities / 258 on board
Total: 271 fatalities / 271 on board
Ground casualties: 2 fatalities
Flight 191 left the gate at Chicago-O'Hare at 14:59 and taxied to runway 32R. At 15:02 the flight was cleared for takeoff. The takeoff roll was normal until just before rotation at which time sections of the No. 1 engine pylon structure came off the aircraft. During rotation the entire no. 1 engine and pylon separated from the aircraft, went over the top of the wing, and fell to the runway. Flight 191 lifted off about 6,000 feet down the runway, climbed out in a wings level attitude, and reached an altitude of about 300 feet agl with its wings still level. Shortly thereafter, the aircraft began to turn and roll to the left, the nose pitched down, and the aircraft began to descend. As it descended, it continued to roll left until the wings were past the vertical position. The DC-10 crashed in an open field and trailer park about 4,680 feet northwest of the departure end of runway 32R. The aircraft was demolished during the impact, explosion, and ground fire. Two persons on the ground were killed.
quote: John PytlakI know what you mean John. I was working at Canon USA in Elmhurst when the crash happened. We were about 10 miles diectly south of the point of impact with giant floor to ceiling windows that faced north and it looked like the entire northern suburbs were going up. We all knew it was a plane crash being in such close proximity to the airport, we were right near the south west corner of ORD. Later that day we also learned of the fate of two Canon employees who were heading back to L.A.. Didn't know the Canon employees but I will never forget that day or the huge column of smoke not very far away!
Every time discussion of DC-10 crashes come up, I sadly remember John Lakotas, a Kodak motion-picture engineer and close friend, on his way back to Hollywood from an engineering meeting in Rochester on that fateful day at ORD on May 25, 1979.
quote: Leo EnticknapLeo,
According to my cousin the Chicago crash was caused by the engine having been removed from its housing for maintenance using an unauthorised procedure
quote:
REMEMBERING A LIFE, NOT MOURNING A DEATH – A resident of First Neighborhood in the city of Westlake Village, Lisa Wildermuth, plants a tree in memory of her father, John C. Lakotas, who was killed in a 1979 plane crash. The Jacaranda tree planted recently is part of a Memorial Tree Plan that allows residents to plant commemorative trees in greenbelts that lace their way around and through First Neighborhood. With Wildermuth are her husband, Michael, who’s standing on the left holding baby John (who was named for his grandfather), daughters Nicole, 5, and Rebecca, 8, along with Iraj Broomand, mayor of the city of Westlake Village.
