Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Sounds Impressive But Isn't

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 09-02-2004, 04:25 PM:

I'm projecting in Technirama.

What do you do that sounds impressive but isn't? Perambulate infants on the sidewalk? Engage in philately? Please, if it involves the release of copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas we don't need to know. [Eek!]

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 09-02-2004, 05:50 PM:

according to my workers comp case... i am a ....

"post injurious disambulatory occupational participant"...

It means my foot still hurts, but I can go to work if I want to...

ciao

Dave

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 09-02-2004, 07:33 PM:

Moving Picture Machine Operator = projectionist.

Steve

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 09-03-2004, 04:32 AM:

I have a friend with a degree in Philosophy. Unfortunately, for an income, he can't put it to use quite yet. So in the meantime, he's working as Publications Distribution Specialist.

He has a paper route.

Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 09-03-2004, 04:56 AM:

Mega-plex

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 09-03-2004, 12:42 PM:

I've been a Web Based Systems Administration Consultant...In reality that just means I tell people what's wrong with their websites and the servers they run. Then they take my advice and experience over to the window, open it, and throw it right out on to the street.

My favorite title is still "The wierd guy from upstairs".

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 2038) on 09-06-2004, 12:46 AM:

This is what I did for a living several years ago...

Surface, manual guidance, contractual commodity, articulated engineering specialist.

(Truck driver)

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 09-06-2004, 01:36 AM:

"Master's Candidate"

i.e. Still a student

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-06-2004, 12:18 PM:

Along with "professor's slave" for a few years... [uhoh]

Can't finish your thesis? Read another book! [Big Grin]

Defenestrates bandwidth-limited focused optical radiation on to a planar or cylindrical section surface of specified size, aspect ratio, reflectivity, and spectral response. See photon flinging...

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-06-2004, 06:26 PM:

I was formerly a Motion Picture Projection and Sound Service Engineer = Sound Man (the popular term when I got in the business) = Booth Tech (today's popular term)

Now I are a Trucker = Steering Wheel Holder

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 09-06-2004, 07:05 PM:

Let's confine this to descriptions and terms actually used, not what you can make up. I doubt anyone calls a truck driver an articulated engineering specialist.

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 09-06-2004, 07:22 PM:

Filmovara lens....a zoom projector lens for a Bell & Howell 16mm projector. I had a client in the early 1970's with 16mm projection in addition to 35mm in his cinemas and he was not happy until you "installed" a Filmovara...he was a retired radio announcer and loved the rolling syllables of Film...o...var...a......He out cooted Phil [Big Grin]

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 09-06-2004, 11:39 PM:

I love the "super" series names:

Super Platter (stupid platter)
Super 35
Super Simplex

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 09-08-2004, 11:33 AM:

Super-8
Super-16
SuperScope
Super Technirama 70
Super Panavision 70
SuperPanorama
Superama
SuperCinescope
Super Techniscope
SuperTotalscope
SuperVision [Wink]