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Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 21, 2007, 08:03 PM:

My regular projection screen is 52" by 92" and hangs in front of our living room window, hidden by the curtains when it is rolled up.

I got a Blackhawk "The Hoos Gow" the other day, threaded up and ran the film. Lo and behold I looked up and found I'd forgotten to pull the screen down and there were Stan and Ollie 20 feet tall on the house across the street! What a sight for people passing by: spontaneous cinema!

...now if only I could get them to paint their house white!

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on January 21, 2007, 09:18 PM:

Funny Story,

Just imagine if you projected
the entire reel.
The Neighbors may have believed
that you were tossing gooey rice
at them. [Big Grin]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 21, 2007, 09:25 PM:

Yup!,

Immediately I yelled upstairs for my wife to look out the window, and she said "For God's sake, turn it off!!"

I'm not saying it was bright. I'm not saying it was sharp.

-but for one brief moment I was my own little drive-in movie!

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on January 21, 2007, 09:59 PM:

Steve, my wife gave me
the same reaction when I was
estimating the screen size needed
in the back yard - which put an end
to my summer outdoor night screenings.

Ah yes,
Just pass the gooey rice,
Oh, Sorry Honey....
I meant the pop corn.

Michael

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on January 21, 2007, 10:11 PM:

Reminds me of that great scene in 'Cinema Paradiso', when Alberto swings the projector beam out of the cinema window to project the film on the house across the square.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 21, 2007, 10:22 PM:

I wonder if that rice thing is at all true: it sounds like an excellent way to gum up the tubes in the radiator and roast the engine!

This is very early Laurel and Hardy Sound: so much that they aren't even using their theme song yet. You can tell that they are not quite used to a mic. on set, so the acting is a bit overdone. Stan has his classic whine well established though.

That picture window is double glazed and probably pretty lossy...I wonder how much better I could do if I moved the machine over a few feet and opened up the front door!

Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on January 22, 2007, 08:47 AM:

Steve- thats a great story, and reminds me of my younger days:

In the late 70's (I was a teen), I tested my then-new Sankyo with the 1.0 lens by projecting the 400 foot digest "Squirm" out my bedroom window, across the alley, onto the back of a yellow house [Smile]

. The results were amazing! Imagine, all those worms crawling around on about a 50 foot image.

I don't know if anyone was watching out their back windows, but I always imagined some drunk guy stumbling through the alley that night and looking up, and mumbling something like, "Man, this neighborhood's gone to ****.

P.S.- My mom's reaction was about the same as your wife's [Wink]

.

At least it was at the end!

Nick.

Posted by Mike Peckham (Member # 16) on January 22, 2007, 04:11 PM:

Steve,

great story, it reminds me of a garden party we had about 10 years ago, at the time I was doing a bit of 16mm. We had my old B & H projector set up in the garden projecting Barbarella onto a home made paper screen stretched across two pieces of wood. Before the film really got going, the screen collapsed and the projector then cast the image of Jane Fonda, undressing in zero gravity, on to the side of the nursing home at the bottom of the garden.

I'm sure it must have been a little surprising for those of the old folk who suddenly had various parts of Janes anatomy projected onto their bedroom walls through their windows! [Smile]

Mike

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on January 22, 2007, 07:29 PM:

Yeah Mike, but what a great way to leave this world! [Big Grin]

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on January 22, 2007, 11:33 PM:

LOL,

It's one thing to bring a showcase
of classic films to the old age
facility.

But Michael,just think of how
you may have rehabilitated
their lives with Out of space
Fonda doing her thing.
[Big Grin]

This is quite an uplifting forum
and post.

Michael

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