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Topic: A New Toy
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted February 06, 2007 07:36 PM
Well thats what the owners of the cinema told me after putting up with my moans and groans last year one new projector I arrived back from holiday and there it was, took me 20 min to figure out how to use it one of the quietest 35mm projectors I have come across. German made, "Kinoton" Neat!!! The little device at the top is the DTS timecode reader head, it synchronizes playback from a CD-ROM disc. Well thats a quick tour, 35mm is still alive and well in this video age. One amusing story just before Christmas we were finishing the screening of "Ergon" I went into the theatre and there was a lady with her grandchildren watching the last of the credits, as we were quiet I asked them if they would like to see the projectors and showed them how we went about threading our new toy. I got the kids to start the next season and I told them as I dident have my glasses on, they both would have to do the scope change for me. I asked the girl to press the scope masking button, and her brother to also press the lens scope button, both at the same time at the end of the trailers, the look of concentration at the screen waiting for the moment was amazing when it came I said get ready''''get set''''' go "spot on" they were pleased and I told them they were now officialy projectionist"s and left with big smiles with bits of film.I dont often get the time to show people around but I must say the look of wonderment is always the same.
Graham [ February 06, 2007, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: Graham Ritchie ]
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