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Projectors in movies (as opposed to the other way around) ... continued
The Fabelmans is a great film because it shows the joy of being young and getting access to a movie camera and projector. I don't claim to be any kind of Spielberg, but when I was 17 years old, I was that kid!
-I have some cartridges in the 'fridge: every so often I'm still that kid!
Not in a movie, on French tv (France 2), a clip before the news.
Is there really a projector for any home movie format where the film is threaded on the left hand side? Or did they simply mirrored the image?
(I know that there are a few pedestal projectors for 16mm that have been available in left and right so that the projectionist was more easily able to do a reel change over. But this one looks like an „amateur model“.)
My wife was watching a NCIS Episode today when all of a sudden Leroy Jethro Gibbs seemed to be threading up a projector. (-got my attention!). Now, he wasn't getting ready to watch Bugs Bunny or Laurel and Hardy, but instead to watch film of a prisoner being abused as part of an investigation. (PS: The bad-guy here was played by the same actor who played the Klingon prison warden in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. I doubt this man ever played Santa Claus!)
They used the standard device of the reels turning around in silhouette in front of the character commenting on what they are watching, but the shape of the reel arms and the angle of the belts driving them were pretty familiar: not enough for positive ID, but a pretty strong hint.
-the next scene Gibbs is walking out to his car carrying the machine. Sure enough: Kodak Pageant. Considering he's probably supposed to have borrowed it from some Agency equipment pool, it was a good choice.
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