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Topic: Silly Sentimentality Over A Reel
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted October 16, 2012 05:45 PM
That's Life!
Heart-breaking when you realise something you've loved and cherised for so long is suddenly gone or broken.
Makes you realise and appreciate what is still here.
And look to the future...
Recently, we moved house and I was on the phone to my Dad, talking about films, etc. (can't imagine why, that's not like me ) ...anyway, he brings up the subject of repairing the old "Craven" super 8 movie projector speaker that we had both bought together for my birthday, about 30 odd years ago, when I was about 10 years old...back in about 1980!
He thought it was a waste of his £40.00 back then I'm sure, but I wanted better sound from my 400ft copy of "Day Of The Triffids", and was quite temperamental , so he gave in...
When he heard it, he never really said much, but I just knew he appreciated how much better it sounded than the projector speaker, and I knew he was just as happy that it pleased me as actually fulfilling it's purpose...
Well, the many years of audio joy that thing gave so many people! Solving so many problems in screenings in big rooms for audiences (it sounds awful...oh, just bung the "Craven" in there...now it sounds fine!), 16mm screenings, etc...
Suffice to say, it was used regularly until about 18 months ago, when finally the main drive unit just gave up... and when we moved, in all the chaos, I'd forgotten until this phone call that I'd decided that was uneconomical to repair and chucked it on the skip!
"Did you get it fixed?", he asked
Well, I was a bit dumbfounded...it was difficult enough for me to throw it, but I never thought he'd remember...
"No, I, well it wasn't worth...where did I put it in the end... Oh, I , er, I think I decided to throw it away....."
Silence...
"Dad, you still there?"
He replies, obviously distracted by something else, "Oh, yeah, well, I always thought your DVD stuff sounded better anyway..."
So I'm there at the end of the phone, not sure how to break this heart-rending news... with all this sentiment attached to that speaker... and he doesn't give a monkey!
Point is, the "Craven" is gone, but he is not, and for now at least, we can both laugh about it.
PS. I still miss that speaker so much though! I even remember how it smells
Ebay, where is Ebay........
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted October 18, 2012 04:28 AM
You're right there Martin,I had one for use on my S709, and found it was a tone control, but the "hum" was still there, the 25w amp helped a bit,but as you say the suppresor was a non starter, although at £4.00,even then, he can't have made a profit on them.The speakers were good though,no "cone rattle" at high volume which was great.
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