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Saturday (The part with projector light…)
-and so, we met for Saturday Night Show once again!
This is the one that started it all! In early years, when we were looking to gather the crowd (other than to eat…), it just seemed the natural thing to have a film show. -but where to get the films from? The answer is basically “anywhere and everywhere”! Over the years, we’ve had samples of new releases, we’ve had some loaner prints shipped in by friends of CineSea and most of all, we, the crowd out in the seats have brought our own. For the most of us that have home-sized screens, we never appreciate the potential in them. On a large screen, with a bright lamp, a sharp lens and a great sound system they can finally stretch their legs and show us what they can do!
It’s Saturday night after dinner time, and the crew back at the projectors is primed for action. Up until well after a normal bedtime they’ll be threading up, running films and then rewinding them: all the while maintaining who owns what so they get back to their rightful owners! Tonight, as with the last few years, they are taking turns running Super-8, 16mm and 35mm.
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(It’s a job that should come with a bar stool!)
We started out by remembering Terry Bange, who passed away at the end of last year. He brought the first 35mm Friday Night feature: House of Wax in 3D at CineSea 17 along with Dave Baker. People like Terry have made Cinesea better by introducing new possibilities that may have seemed impossible years before. I'd like to remember him here by showing him in action, doing what he loved to do!
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Now we were ready for the first film:
-and here comes the opening pitch!
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Seeing this wonderful Super-8 print is quite a treat! Because of its sharpness and Doug’s newly HID equipped GS-1200, some in the crowd asked if it was 35mm!
We went Bollywood courtesy of Mike Lattavo:
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We had a surprise event Saturday night. It started out special enough: There is a cinema presentation titled CinéMagique at Disneyland in Paris. In this film, Martin Short plays an audience member who ruins the show with his Cell Phone jabber and as punishment gets pulled through the screen into the world of the movies. On his strange journey he finds himself below decks in Titanic as seawater comes flooding up the passageway, then he finds himself fighting storm troopers in Star Wars. Before the end he is shot with an arrow by Kevin Costner in Robin Hood, but it’s his phone that takes the hit. There is exactly one film print (16mm) of this and Tammy T. brought it for us all to enjoy.
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-now you see, that would be enough, but as a surprise she also invited Jerry Rees, the director of CinéMagique to talk to us about the adventures he had making the movie! (-talk about new possibilities!)
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-as I’ve said, bringing one of your own prints to Cinesea can be quite rewarding. A few months ago I was watching my Blackhawk Bored of Education and I said “Of Course!”. This one would be great on the big screen.
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We also got to see Dave Baker’s fine The Curse of the Werewolf.
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-and so it went on until after midnight. We usually count heads after the last reel, and it’s consistently something over a dozen plus the projectionists: this time was no different! I can’t speak for anybody else, but I sleep very well Saturday nights at CineSea!'
.
-and so, we met for Saturday Night Show once again!
This is the one that started it all! In early years, when we were looking to gather the crowd (other than to eat…), it just seemed the natural thing to have a film show. -but where to get the films from? The answer is basically “anywhere and everywhere”! Over the years, we’ve had samples of new releases, we’ve had some loaner prints shipped in by friends of CineSea and most of all, we, the crowd out in the seats have brought our own. For the most of us that have home-sized screens, we never appreciate the potential in them. On a large screen, with a bright lamp, a sharp lens and a great sound system they can finally stretch their legs and show us what they can do!
It’s Saturday night after dinner time, and the crew back at the projectors is primed for action. Up until well after a normal bedtime they’ll be threading up, running films and then rewinding them: all the while maintaining who owns what so they get back to their rightful owners! Tonight, as with the last few years, they are taking turns running Super-8, 16mm and 35mm.
.
(It’s a job that should come with a bar stool!)
We started out by remembering Terry Bange, who passed away at the end of last year. He brought the first 35mm Friday Night feature: House of Wax in 3D at CineSea 17 along with Dave Baker. People like Terry have made Cinesea better by introducing new possibilities that may have seemed impossible years before. I'd like to remember him here by showing him in action, doing what he loved to do!
.
Now we were ready for the first film:
-and here comes the opening pitch!
.
Seeing this wonderful Super-8 print is quite a treat! Because of its sharpness and Doug’s newly HID equipped GS-1200, some in the crowd asked if it was 35mm!
We went Bollywood courtesy of Mike Lattavo:
.
We had a surprise event Saturday night. It started out special enough: There is a cinema presentation titled CinéMagique at Disneyland in Paris. In this film, Martin Short plays an audience member who ruins the show with his Cell Phone jabber and as punishment gets pulled through the screen into the world of the movies. On his strange journey he finds himself below decks in Titanic as seawater comes flooding up the passageway, then he finds himself fighting storm troopers in Star Wars. Before the end he is shot with an arrow by Kevin Costner in Robin Hood, but it’s his phone that takes the hit. There is exactly one film print (16mm) of this and Tammy T. brought it for us all to enjoy.
.
-now you see, that would be enough, but as a surprise she also invited Jerry Rees, the director of CinéMagique to talk to us about the adventures he had making the movie! (-talk about new possibilities!)
.
-as I’ve said, bringing one of your own prints to Cinesea can be quite rewarding. A few months ago I was watching my Blackhawk Bored of Education and I said “Of Course!”. This one would be great on the big screen.
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-Alfalfa Sings!
We also got to see Dave Baker’s fine The Curse of the Werewolf.
.
-and so it went on until after midnight. We usually count heads after the last reel, and it’s consistently something over a dozen plus the projectionists: this time was no different! I can’t speak for anybody else, but I sleep very well Saturday nights at CineSea!'
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