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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 12, 2013, 01:17 PM:

I visited the Hollywood Museum yesterday...saw a nice exhibit of 35mm projectors and cameras... a Path Baby...and a couple of 8mm.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 12, 2013, 01:19 PM:

Waw ! Well done, Janice ! Can you post the Pathe Baby pictures in the 9,5 section of the forum ?

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 12, 2013, 01:26 PM:

I will post the Path Baby in 9.5 section shortly. I'm getting ready to board my flight home [Smile]

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 12, 2013, 01:35 PM:

Thanks and have a safe flight.

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on September 12, 2013, 02:55 PM:

Janice's pictures remind me a lot of the Curzon Collection in Clevedon in the UK. A must visit for all film collectors in the UK.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on September 12, 2013, 09:49 PM:

Awesome pics Jan! have a safe flight home.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on September 13, 2013, 10:24 AM:

I was in Hollywood in October 1995 but don't recall seeing The Hollywood Museum. Did I just miss it, or did it open after that date?

Posted by Bruce Wright (Member # 2793) on September 13, 2013, 11:50 AM:

Nice shoes [Wink]

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 13, 2013, 12:19 PM:

Maurice, following its website, the museum opened in 2003. Seems that you will have to go back to Hollywood :-)

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on September 13, 2013, 09:38 PM:

Dominique
Thanks for the information, didn't think I'd missed it. I was staying at the Hotel Roosevelt which opened in 1927 and is still going strong. It hosted the first Academy Awards in 1929 and has a collection of movie articles on display. A three-strip Technicolor camera and an old silent projector with sound conversion and a low intensity hand fed arc.

The hotel has always been a home-from-home for film stars. In the lobby there was a seat with a life-size statue of Charlie Chaplin sitting at one end. There was a continuous queue of people waiting to be photographed sitting alongside him.

Right opposite is the Chinese Theatre. I was able to visit and talk with their projectionist, they had the best film projectors in the world, the Philips DP70. The main projection box had two, one using 2000' spools for the supporting ads and trailers, and the other for showing the feature which was fed from a Christie platter. To keep both projectors fully functional the arrangement was changed regularly.

Perhaps one day I'll go back, the hotel will be the same, but will the DP70s still be there?

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on September 15, 2013, 12:18 AM:

Truth is, as the saying goes, stranger than fiction. The awful reality of it is that the Chinese main screen is about to reopen - next Friday - as a digital LieMax 3D screen, with a so-called Imax, and 3D, retrofit of the 1939 Wizard of Oz. I'm half curious to know how bad it is, but it's not worth the money to find out. Website: TCL Chinese Theate.

If the DP70s were kept, what for? The original seating arrangement and booth are gone, so it would've been quite the special provision to keep them. However, for classic, non-DCP version screenings maybe they did.

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