Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Projectionist Magazines

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Posted by Nate Lehrke (Member # 1460) on 12-22-2002, 10:07 PM:

Does anyone have any suggestions on what are good Projectionist Periodicals? Theatre Operation Magazines? Or just any theatre related magazines?

Posted by John Scott (Member # 520) on 12-22-2002, 11:12 PM:

Well there are always the old standbys, Film Journal and Box Office that do have projectionist related articles in them.

Kodak used to send out a quarterly newsletter about projection, but I haven't seen one of those mailed to us in over a year.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-22-2002, 11:58 PM:

There used to be a mag called International Projectionist Magazine. That was a really good publication but has been gone for at least a couple of decades. Many of them still make for great reading and there is alot to learn from them....if you can find any of them......and oh...those pics of the 70mm booths with the Ashcrafts!!
Mark @ CLACO

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-27-2002, 02:17 PM:

Kodak no longer mails the "Film Notes for Reel People" or "Cinema Notes" publications, which I have been involved with since the early 1980's. Many of my articles are available on the Kodak website at:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/pytlak/

And other movie-related and technical articles are available on the Kodak website:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/

Film-Tech has all the back issues in the "Manuals" section:

http://www.film-tech.com/manuals/manualindex.html#FILMNOTES

Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 12-27-2002, 05:29 PM:

Hmm. There used to be some nice online versions of Cinema Notes up on the Kodak web site (nicer than the scanner stuff); what happened to them? So much for any archival faith in the web (you might have hoped for it at Kodak...).

I hadn't heard that a "strategic decision" was finally made to can Film Notes for Reel People (I like that title best), both on-line and print. That's really sad. They kept talking about moving it fron print to on-line, and I was thought that was a bad move, but never really expected it to go away entirely [Frown]

.

John, do you have any background on the decision?

--jhawk

Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 12-27-2002, 06:21 PM:

What about Playboy or something like that? [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-27-2002, 06:44 PM:

Hey yea, Hugh Heffner used to ahve a copuple of 35mm installations at the old Playboy mansion in Chicago. I helped to remove the downstairs units years ago. These were actually Simplex X-L's that were set up for sep mag dailies.
Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Jeffry L. Johnson (Member # 453) on 12-28-2002, 09:48 AM:

Cinema Technology from BKSTS - The Moving Image Society.

Posted by Darren Briggs (Member # 1071) on 12-28-2002, 04:17 PM:

New mag in tht U.K is called ScreenTrade which deals in all aspects of cinema life.
(+44) (0) 1689 833117

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 12-28-2002, 04:31 PM:

John,
I enjoyed Film Notes for the Reel People and Film Notes during almost their entire run, and saved them in a massive ring binder in the projection booth. I still have it now. I'd been reading your contributions with pleasure and profit long before I discovered Film-tech.
Gerard

Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 12-28-2002, 06:13 PM:

Towards the end of it's run, International Projectionist magazine was known as "Greater Amusements & International Projectionist". I believe it was published by Quigley Publishing, the same people who printed the Richardson "Blue Book of Projection" book.

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 12-28-2002, 06:38 PM:

Just a fast note for what it's worth, for those living in or visiting Southern California. . .the complete issue run of International Projectionist can be found at the A.M.P.A.S. Margaret Herrick Library on South La Cienaga just off Olympic in Los Angeles. The place keeps odd hours, but it's a great afternoon hoot to sit and thumb thru back issues from the golden age. The ads alone are worth the trip (you'll have to sling a line of [bs]

at the door to get in, though. Tell 'em you're doing research on old projection techniques).

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-28-2002, 08:23 PM:

IP was published by James Finn out of NYC.

I have nearly 300 issues, from the early 30s through the early 60s, and was considering the logistics of putting them on CD-ROM. I'm only missing 10 or 12 issues in that range.

Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 12-28-2002, 09:21 PM:

Tim:

Please put them on CD Rom! I would buy it for sure. Gimme-gimme-gimme!

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-28-2002, 10:23 PM:

Quigley were the folks who published Motion Picture Herald. Where, among other things, we learned about air conditioned drive-ins and admired the amazing new Century JJ.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-29-2002, 03:27 AM:

quote:
Please put them on CD Rom!

Ken, I'm seriously considering it, although it is on the back BACK burner. I'd like to get some more early issues first, but every one that shows up on ebay, they want $10 an issue for! Ridiculous!

Plus, I've been working on another big project... we'll see that in the very near future. [Wink]

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-31-2002, 11:22 AM:

jhawk wrote:

"There used to be some nice online versions of Cinema Notes up on the Kodak web site (nicer than the scanner stuff); what happened to them? So much for any archival faith in the web (you might have hoped for it at Kodak...)."

We've tried to keep the timeless technical stuff on-line, such as:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/pytlak/

Much of the "human interest" and production notes type articles are covered by Kodak's other publications:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/index_flash.shtml

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/students/onCampus/

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/onFilm/

We welcome your suggestions for new articles, or which old technical articles you miss and want back on the Kodak website.

It's much more cost-efficient and timely to publish on the Kodak website, rather than maintain and service a paper-mail mailing list. Even Kodak technical manuals are moving to an Internet-based print-on-demand model, for the efficiencies and timeliness:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/processing/mooreOrder.shtml

Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 12-31-2002, 02:45 PM:

I don't have specific requests. It merely annoys the archivist in me that there were entire issues of Reel People that are no longer available on-line (but used to be). If I was in the "save everything interesting I downloaded from the web" camp, I'd be all set.

I think the ocassional feature article was also of interest. We too have a printed out binder of all back issues...

--jhawk

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-31-2002, 04:51 PM:

I'd always gotten FN sporadically for some reason. Never did have all the issues.

I remember in the mid-80s, they published the first handful of issues in softcover book form. I saw it in technical bookstores.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-31-2002, 06:56 PM:

Tim Reed wrote:

"I'd always gotten FN sporadically for some reason. Never did have all the issues."

A renewal card was sent out every few years. You may have forgotten to send it back. Maintaining a current subscriber list was just one of the problems with paper mail.

"I remember in the mid-80s, they published the first handful of issues in softcover book form. I saw it in technical bookstores."

That's the "Reel People Collection", Kodak publication H-50:

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/library/films/reference.shtml

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-31-2002, 08:21 PM:

Hi, John. I'll bet the theatre managers pitched the renewal cards! Whenever I did get FN, they always came to the theatres I worked.

Passing the buck..
Tim

Posted by Robert Throop (Member # 61) on 01-03-2003, 09:52 AM:

Tim,
I also have a large collection of International Projectionist going back to 1927 when it was Motion Picture Projectionist. I have several duplicate issues. If you have some dupes, Maybe we can trade and help complete each other's collection.
IP was never published by Quigley. In the seventies when it was combined with Greater Amusements the publisher was Ray Gallo.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-04-2003, 02:44 AM:

Bob, yes, I'd like to do that. I only have a couple dupes, though. I'll drop you a line after I gather them all together. I just moved into a very small place and the boxes are still stacked high.

Thanks!

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 01-04-2003, 11:03 AM:

Film Journal has become mostly articles on industry execs congratulating each other on how great they are and b.s. written by manufacturers engineers promoting their own systems and calling it a tech. article.