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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 12-20-2004, 09:34 PM:
 
Today, I watched "March of the Wooden Soldiers" followed by "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", and now "From Dusk Till Dawn"...Afterward, I'm gonna cue up "White Heat" and then Rocky Horror!

God! What a great day to kick back and do NOTHING and watch films! Yikes! Gosh! Life **IS** good! HA!

>>> Phil
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 12-20-2004, 09:58 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 12-20-2004, 11:07 PM:
 
So Mike...not sure what yur point is? You either have to work today, just being an ass, or just jealous of my good looks...

>>> Phil
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 12-20-2004, 11:15 PM:
 
Phil it was mainly #1... partly #2, and not #3!
 

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Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 12-21-2004, 04:14 AM:
 
You should also throw in "Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert" to boot...
 

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-21-2004, 07:35 AM:
 
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom LOL
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 12-25-2004, 07:45 PM:
 
Happy olidays

Here in SAGINAW MI, between the two theatres with which I work we had prints of
"White Christmas"
"It's A Wonderful Life"
"Prancer"
"Elf"
"Surviving Christmas"
 

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-25-2004, 07:55 PM:
 
Be sure to request the VistaVision version of White Christmas. Hehehe.
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 12-25-2004, 08:01 PM:
 
Steve,
Last year we had a new print of "White Christmas" and it was very good visually but the sound was muffled. This year we got an old scratched print with several reels printed like "Day for Night". The sound on this pront was pretty muffled as well.

All of the prints had the "Vista Vision" opening logo and the framing cues in the beginning of each reel. (Although I believe that you are talking about the horizontal projection system)

Most reels had one or two frames left after the second changeover mark. Yes, we do use reels and Carbon light.

KEN
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 12-26-2004, 09:22 AM:
 
White Christmas was Perspecta Sound, no? Did you present it that way? Did your print have the control tones?

Steve
 

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Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 12-26-2004, 09:39 AM:
 
We ran It's A Wonderful Life Christmas eve in a single show to 780 and Christmas night to 500 in the early show. The best turnouts we've ever had for these showings.
 

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Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 12-26-2004, 07:50 PM:
 
Phil,

Great topic you bring up...

I finally watched "A Christmas Story" for the first time this year...

Also, some other great films I watched..

Requiem for a Dream

Dancing at the Blue Lagoon (anyone else ever see this? - It has Jenneifer Tilly {the reason I watched it} and Daryll Hannah in it)
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 12-26-2004, 08:14 PM:
 
Steve,

I did not hear any low frequency tones on the White Christmas sound track. I don't recall any logo at the credits either as the film made an abrupt end after "The End" title, even the music was cut off.

When I was a lab tech in the EE Department at college, a professor had me build a "Perspecta Sound" like encoding and decoding unit for him. All built with vacuum tubes of the time.
This was back in the 1959 era. The unit was pretty effective at making simulated stereo from MONO LP records.
We never had access to or use for the unit in a cinema setting. Just an experiment to see if the theory worked. And it did.

KEN
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-26-2004, 11:10 PM:
 

quote: Kenneth Wuepper

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All built with vacuum tubes of the time.

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