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Topic: Kevs little helper!
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Gary Crawford
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 979
From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 03, 2005 10:56 AM
I've told this cat related film story before on here, but just in case. I'm screening a regular 8 sound film for a few friends. We are in the screening room....the film is running in the booth...things are going swimmingly.....then the projected image begins to tilt ...and before I can get to it, the entire image has disappeared out of sight....and the projector had fallen off the pedestal and hit the ground. One of our cats had gotten up there , got tangled in the power cord and pulled the fairly lightweight Eumig 810 right over and off the pedastal. The miracle ......the machine was still running when it hit the floor on it's backside....bulb still on, sound still on . And after a few minutes to check everything out, the projector was up on the pedestal again and running again , taking up right where the film left off.....the film spools stayed on the arms....and everything worked...and still works fine. The cat must have been scared by it all . He has never ventured up there again. You can't imagine the sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach..the wave of chills that went down my spine as I watched helplessly as the projected picture tilted 45 degrees to the right...and then out of sight. True witness,however, to the toughness of the Eumig machines.
Can you imagine what that what have done to GS1200? I shudder to think of it.
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