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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted October 29, 2017 03:01 AM
Thanks Steve
Here is hoping that the "Cinema Arts Museum", being a museum that is, start to use those film projectors once again, instead of digital...I think you need to have a word with them
Alan
The leader is about 35ft but using the platter is brilliant, The only real tension, is the film returning to the platter and that stays a constant. With the film going to the projector from the platter, its very little, as the platter is constantly feeding it out...it just lightly floats across the roof rollers all the way to the other projector
This particular platter was used to doing this very thing from its cinema days, every day for the 20 years it was there. Film ran all over the place, certainly glad I grabbed it, before it went to the scrap.
If you look at this old photo, you can see its feeding film down the roof to another projector at cinema 3, and at the same time using other decks for the old Bauer on cinema 2 during our final week. The other projector now taking it up.. Ah! The "Kinoton" what a nice machine that was....
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted October 29, 2017 06:25 PM
Thanks Kevin and Simon
Kevin my wife thought I was nuts to get the platter she said what are you going to do with it?, even I was wondering my own sanity ..especialy the night we went to the cinema to pick it up. I even roped the Cinema mall security in, to give me a hand The Ernemann 2 projector still has its original spool boxes fitted and complete, and can still run its 2000ft reels of film. The platter gives me the choice to run full features, as well without stopping. Most of my features are stored on 6000ft reels so can quickly load onto a platter deck.
Simon I am surprised at the cost of insurance of Dunkirk, was that for a 70mm print or just a 35mm ?
I used to enjoy supporting our local cinema, but to be honest for the last few years I seem to have lost interest in going. Between the product itself being shown and I hate to say this, but digital presentation as well at the cinema does makes me think to just wait for the dvd/blu-ray and watch it at home either projected on a VP or watched on TV.
The look of film is special and just before we closed we ran some David Lean films, one being "Dr Zhivago" with Overture, Intermission etc and it looked great. I thought then I will never see it projected like this again....so watched it twice that week.
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