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Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on May 16, 2011, 10:59 PM:

Yo...ho...yo..ho...

So who is going to the movies to watch this latest release "Pirate On Stranger Tides"?

Half of our new 35mm print arrived over the weekend the rest should be today. It brought back memories of when I first put together and screened the first one "The Curse Of The Black Pearl" way way back in 2003.

I remember there was not a lot of advertising out here for its release, so very little was known about it except that it had Jonny Depp and it was a Pirate movie.

I put the print together and left it on the platter for its up and coming release date a few days later. At the time the school term was finishing and we had a private booking for 200 intermediate school kids "13yrs and under" who were coming to watch a nice safe no offence "G" rated film.

I threaded up this "G" rated cartoon and was all ready to screen it, when our manager just happened to mention to me on her way to her office, that the kids didn't seem to be that interested in the movie the school had booked for them.

I dont know what made me do it [Roll Eyes]

....but I decided to unthread the cartoon and thread up Pirates instead. Up to this point it had not yet been shown to the public and not test screened ...so I thought why not..its Jonny Depp and Pirates that sounds better. [Cool]

The thing was I did not tell anyone what I was doing, everyone was seated waiting for this nice safe "G" rated cartoon but instead I dimmed the lights and went straight into "The Curse Of The Black Pearl".

Anyway I cranked up the Digital sound and left it at that, however I had forgotten the rating and although not restricted it was "M" Suitable for mature audiences 16 and over and those 200 kids were 13yrs and under. [Eek!]

I forgot about that.

At the end as the credits rolled I headed into cinema to back off the digital as the sub was working really well with this print. As I entered the noise from all those kids clapping was amazing they were over the moon and in the last 11 yrs of projecting have never come across anything like that before. It might be partly due that it caught them all by surpise they just didn't expect it.

Thinking I am in "BIG" trouble I quicky found a corner in the projection room to hide. The Manager did come looking for me she entered the projection room and shouted "GRAHAM"...I said yes...she replied..they really enjoyed that one and left.

So folks I still had a job and everyone was happy.

Yo...ho...yo...ho..its a pirates life for me.

Graham. [Smile]

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on May 17, 2011, 01:45 AM:

Argh!

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on May 17, 2011, 02:18 AM:

Nice one, Graham. The Imax cinema where I'm in training received the Key yesterday to unlock the digital prints, allowing us to perform a test screening. This gave us time to fine tune the whole system. Lucky for us as one of the projectors went temperamental and decided to screen only the green matrix on the right hand side. The result looked like an old anaglyphic print! We rebooted the server, recalibrated the projector and fixed the issue (all is fine for tonight's advance showing) but I had some giggles while talking to the young lady at Imax in Toronto when she confessed having no clue about what anaglyphs were. Fortunately, I ended up talking to an older technician and he totally got it. The irony of talking film while trying to fix something digital...

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 17, 2011, 10:39 AM:

One of the better "series" of films to be released to the theaters these days!

It doesn't have the original director, nor the "love interest" aspect of the trilogy, but it has Johnny Depp swashing his buckle about, so it should be good fun.

It's film series like this that still give me a modicum of hope for our theaters in this day and age.

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