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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 22
Message ID: 33
#33, RE: JJ Concordet and marketable voices
Posted by Wedge on Jun-14-01 at 02:51 PM
In response to message #32
>Almost assuredly. We don't get anything but polyester.
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>Um, you must have some cheapass projectors man, when our film and
>projectors decide to have a fight, the film loses, usually getting
>stretched. Unfortunately our failsafes are designed to deal with
>*breaks*.

Had. This was 6 years ago, and the theater was one of the oldest ones in town, so I wouldn't be surprised if the projector equipment was 10 or 15 years old by the time I got to it. The platter motors were twitchy and high strung, and the failsafes probably nowhere near as sensitive as what you might have now. And we were just starting to see the poly prints back then, so I'm not surprised they're the standard by now. The breaking the projector thing was what I was told, so I might give as much credit to the paranoid engineer who told me as much as might give it to being the truth. :)

Someone in the history of the place decided it would be a great idea to paint the surface of the two oldest platter trees with they wankyest motors with glossy white enamel paint. I'd still like to have five minutes alone with the moron who did that. It threw the last 10 minutes of Apollo 13 on the floor so many times I lost count. I have vivid memories of the head projectionist hand feeding the film through the projector from a pile on the floor. Or opening the door to the booth behind concession to be greeted by film spilling down the steps. Bad juju.

>But here's how you get a long IMAX movie: sequential interlock.
>Theaters have two projectors for 3D right instead of running both at
>the same time you have a cue at the end of each "reel" to start the
>other projector and the film continues without stopping. Give each
>projector a quintiple platter tree and you can run for 6 hours without
>stopping. 6 hours of IMAX. Can you say sensory overload?

That's just wrong. :)

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