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Timothy Price
Master Film Handler

Posts: 335
From: Minneapolis, MN. USA
Registered: Nov 2009

posted March 25, 2010 01:29 PM

I just finished my new screen set up and I need to share this with some folks who'll appreciate it! [Big Grin]

OK- I also need to let ya'll know I did this is on a shoe string budget.

I picked up a Da-Lite pull down 60 X 60. (Perfect size for basement viewing) mounted it to the suspended ceiling with Da-Lite scissor clips. LOOKS GREAT! For extra strength you simply use wire attached to the clips and the ceiling frame! Of course the wire is hidden by the ceiling tiles! Screen always hangs from the ceiling, when you want to watch good ol' S8 films, simply pull it down and Voila!

AND...

For outdoor viewing, (of course on a windy day this would not work, but I hung it outside today and there is a gentle breeze and NO PROBLEM!

I used two ON STAGE speaker tri-pod stands and ran PVC piping to two elbows and connected a long PVC pipe accross. I spray painted the piping black to blend with the speaker stands and I must say, it looks pretty good!

I used 5/16 eye bolts that come down from top and the long PVC pipe and the screen hooks on the frame housing with the same "S" hooks that attach it to the ceiling!

The screen was $53.00 through Amazon, the piping, paint and hardware totaled about $15.00. I already had the speaker stands, but a (good) pair new is usually about a $100.00.

I'll post some pics real soon!

It's not rocket science, but it's close enough for rock & roll!

Tim

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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

posted March 25, 2010 02:01 PM

This is a good size for academy (4x3) format films; I think you will be happy with it. I watch my academy formatted films about 4.5 feet by 6 and they look great!

You may want to go wider if you ever get into Cinemascope, because a 'scope image on a 6 foot wide screen would be only a little over two feet high, but if you don't go that direction it's a "don't care".

I enjoyed watching films a lot more when I went to a big screen. I am still amazed at the detail those little frames can contain. You will notice things you never saw before. My large format screen originally hung behind a couch, and we figured on moving it for the special occasions that were "worth" using a big screen. Then I tried it and it was such an improvement that the couch hasn’t been there in five years!

Somewhere in my teens somebody told me Super-8 was good for nothing bigger than a 3 foot screen, it was a nice surprise finding out it was a lie!

The speaker stands and a pipe between them are a great idea. I've been messing around with a portable setup for my ceiling mount screen for years. I'm mostly in our living room, but for example I'd really like to do a show on the patio next summer. I've come up with these various schemes that are either flimsy or complicated or both.

I'm seeing acres of these stands on E-bay and not expensive at all!

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

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