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Lars-Goran Ahlm
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 205
From: Åmål, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2010

posted September 19, 2011 07:07 PM

I think it would be interesting to know how big your pictures from 8MM is at home.
So I start with my dimensions. (well, not mine, but.. oh, you know)

The height of the picture is 120 centimetres, about 3,94 feet.
The width, in academy ratio, is 173 centimetres, about 5,68 feet.
The width, in CinemaScope, is 346 centimetres, about 11,35 feet. (That is wall to wall)

And this is projected onto a real professional cinema screen, the first scope screen from 1955 installed at the cinema I used to work at years later when it had been replaced. I beleive they put in a new screen when they installed the xenon lights in the machines.
There is only a small portion of the screen I actually uses, the bulk lies on the floor. (Well it's some 10 meters+ wide)
But it's all there for use if I ever would get a more spatial abode in the future.

So, how big are yours? (pictures/screens!! ... You really DO have dirty minds!) [Big Grin]

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 19, 2011 10:21 PM

Mine is 52" by 92"

So:

52" by 69" (132 by 175 cm) in Academy format
52" by 92" (132 by 234 cm)in 16:9
35" by 92" (89 by 234 cm)in 'Scope

Going to a bigger screen is one of the best things I ever did to improve how my films look up there. There is a lot of detail in those little frames you miss if you project small.

There is this myth that you can't project Super-8 bigger than 3 feet diagonal. I really enjoy proving this wrong!

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Greg Marshall
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 612
From: Nashville, TN USA
Registered: Sep 2008

posted September 20, 2011 12:50 AM

When I run flat, I have an 8' x 7' and the zoom helps me fill the screen.

When I run Scope, I use a 12'9" x 4'9". Zoom and masking assists in a sharp image.

GS1200.

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted September 20, 2011 12:56 AM

I can only have a screen suitable for flat, and don't have a wall where permanent installation is possible, so it's simply a 52" x 70" pull-down DaLite. When the opportunity is right, I'll try to go larger.

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted September 20, 2011 12:40 PM

I forget what the exact dimensions are, but I got two wood dowels, a lot of thumbtacks, a highly reflective white satin sheet, (your standard bed sheet), thumbtacked the top and bottom edges of it ...

I then took two hooks and put them in the top dowel, so it hangs quite pleasantly, and I just roll it up or down for use.

... so, whatever those dimensions are, thatsa my super 8 viewing!

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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1149
From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006

posted September 21, 2011 08:51 AM

My screen is a homemade pinewood frame with a Da-Lite fabric cut and mounted on it.
The screen is 9ft by 5-3/4ft (108-by-69 inches) so I get 7.5 or so width with flat prints and 9ft with scope.

Claus.

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

Posts: 3085
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted September 22, 2011 01:26 AM

Ah, a "mine is bigger than yours" thread!!
[Razz]

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Keith Ashfield
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 997
From: U.K.
Registered: Dec 2006

posted September 22, 2011 08:46 AM

"Never mind the quality - feel the width" [Razz]

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted September 22, 2011 12:48 PM

OOOOH!

Naughty Big Bro ... naughty!

Though I have a big screen, it is no doubt less reflective than an actual "beaded" screen.

Yeah ... I can hear it now ...

"Just bead it, bead it, don't make me repeat it ..."

(that song always seemed to have a double meaning to it. Kind of like Billy Squires, "The Stroke"!)

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