>>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
>
>Probably closed then. There's been a real shakeout in the business
>since then. Half the theaters in our ditrict closed in the past three
>years.

Nope, still cookin'. I worked for Eastern Federal, and out of the two theaters they had in Tallahassee, the Miracle was their biggest moneymaker. The same summer I left, they opened a big 12 house theater next to the better mall in town, and a few months after I moved away my old theater got turned into an art house (they're showing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Moulin Rouge right now...that's 'art house' for Tallahassee :), and it seems to still be doing well. Having a film school in the cultural middle of nowhere probably helps their ticket sales.

>Our failsafes are damn nigh useless. The usual serious problem is
>brain wraps, not film breaks. When the brain wrap gets bad enough to
>slow the film enough for a melt-through (cause the failsafe to go off)
>the brain wrap is 2 inches thick and takes 20 minutes to unwrap. A
>more effective failsafe is the occaisional walkthorugh and making sure
>you threaded right.

You could have just typed 'brain wrap 2 inches thick' and it would have been just as effective. Ow.

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"We are totally fluxed."
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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company