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Topic: Worst Screening you ever had...
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Alan Rik
Film God
Posts: 2211
From: New York City, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 16, 2004 09:03 AM
How about a thread about the worst film screening you have ever had? When I was a projectionist at Crest film in Hollywood (A film lab), I had to project a 16mm print for these clients. We had a projection booth, and a jack that was hooked up to an amplifier in the booth. However on this day the amplifier wasn't working. So they ran a simple extension speaker out of the room, down the aisle of the screening room, and right below the screen. However inside the projection booth they didn't have the right speaker connectors so instead they used little "alligator" clips for the positive/negative wires. I told them it wasn't a good idea as there were wires everywhere in the room. They said it will be fine. During the screening our notorious Color Timer who just finished her 4 Martini lunch sat in on the screening. In her drunken voice I head her yelling, "Frame, frame!" Finally she got up and when she walked into the room, she tripped on all the cords, the projector went flying to the ground while still running, and the print fell off the reel and was starting to accumulate on the ground! I stood there in shock! Then she said, "Oh no. Stoooooppp the projector....." As I lifted up the machine to get to the controls the door opens and the client is standing there with his mouth wide open! I said, "it'll be a minute!" That may have been my worst screening!
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