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Janice Glesser
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From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
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posted September 12, 2013 01:17 PM

I visited the Hollywood Museum yesterday...saw a nice exhibit of 35mm projectors and cameras... a Path Baby...and a couple of 8mm.

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 12, 2013 01:19 PM

Waw ! Well done, Janice ! Can you post the Pathe Baby pictures in the 9,5 section of the forum ?

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Janice Glesser
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posted September 12, 2013 01:26 PM

I will post the Path Baby in 9.5 section shortly. I'm getting ready to board my flight home [Smile]

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 12, 2013 01:35 PM

Thanks and have a safe flight.

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Paul Adsett
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posted September 12, 2013 02:55 PM

Janice's pictures remind me a lot of the Curzon Collection in Clevedon in the UK. A must visit for all film collectors in the UK.

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Pasquale DAlessio
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posted September 12, 2013 09:49 PM

Awesome pics Jan! have a safe flight home.

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted September 13, 2013 10:24 AM

I was in Hollywood in October 1995 but don't recall seeing The Hollywood Museum. Did I just miss it, or did it open after that date?

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Bruce Wright
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posted September 13, 2013 11:50 AM

Nice shoes [Wink]

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 13, 2013 12:19 PM

Maurice, following its website, the museum opened in 2003. Seems that you will have to go back to Hollywood :-)

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Maurice Leakey
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posted September 13, 2013 09:38 PM

Dominique
Thanks for the information, didn't think I'd missed it. I was staying at the Hotel Roosevelt which opened in 1927 and is still going strong. It hosted the first Academy Awards in 1929 and has a collection of movie articles on display. A three-strip Technicolor camera and an old silent projector with sound conversion and a low intensity hand fed arc.

The hotel has always been a home-from-home for film stars. In the lobby there was a seat with a life-size statue of Charlie Chaplin sitting at one end. There was a continuous queue of people waiting to be photographed sitting alongside him.

Right opposite is the Chinese Theatre. I was able to visit and talk with their projectionist, they had the best film projectors in the world, the Philips DP70. The main projection box had two, one using 2000' spools for the supporting ads and trailers, and the other for showing the feature which was fed from a Christie platter. To keep both projectors fully functional the arrangement was changed regularly.

Perhaps one day I'll go back, the hotel will be the same, but will the DP70s still be there?

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Bill Brandenstein
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posted September 15, 2013 12:18 AM

Truth is, as the saying goes, stranger than fiction. The awful reality of it is that the Chinese main screen is about to reopen - next Friday - as a digital LieMax 3D screen, with a so-called Imax, and 3D, retrofit of the 1939 Wizard of Oz. I'm half curious to know how bad it is, but it's not worth the money to find out. Website: TCL Chinese Theate.

If the DP70s were kept, what for? The original seating arrangement and booth are gone, so it would've been quite the special provision to keep them. However, for classic, non-DCP version screenings maybe they did.

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