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Topic: Projectionist's Dictionary
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-04-1999 04:15 PM
I've been thinking of writing up a dictionary of terms and words that projectionists use.The original idea came to me on one of those nights when somebody called me up on the radio and said that 'something' is wrong with the picture in Thea. #x. I went there and looked, only to find everything OK. After a long question and answer session with the person, it turned out to be somehting really stupid. At first it was a serious venture and it became more humorous as things went on... "Dirt in the Aperture" became "SHRUBBERY" (Use a Monty Python accent) "Out of Lip-Sync" became "Chinese Disease" (Think about those 'bad' Kung-Fu movies.) Any other ideas? Maybe, if I get motivated, I'll compile a list and 'publish' it. (Or has somebody else alredy?)
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Erich Loepke
Film Handler
Posts: 43
From: Ft. Worth, TX, USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 12-04-1999 09:18 PM
How about these?"Video tape" instead of "film" "Camera" instead of "projector" Several times on Ebay I've seen people selling 16mm projectors refer to them as "cameras"!
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Christopher A Kerr
Film Handler
Posts: 43
From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 12-05-1999 11:35 AM
I have the reel notes "LEGENDARY LEXICON OF PROJECTION!" including such goodies as:DIRTY PICTURE SYNDROME : A manifestation of dirty minds and deeds such that the film in your booth tends to get dirty... HICKEYMAJIGGER : The spring loaded locking mechanism that holds the take up reel on the reel arm spindle. MURPHY'S LAW : If anything can go wrong, it will -- at the worst possible time, that is, the film will break and the takeup drive motor will burn out just before General Custer shouts "CHARGE"!! THINGAMABOB : The thing that whatsisface gave you to put on the projector that is supossed to cut your work in half but you never got around to it. (You are now running 8 projectors at once and don't have time to install thingamabobs.) WHATSISFACE : Your manager, his manager, the owner, or the person you introduce to a newcomer in the booth. All this plus more!!! It even has all kinds of useful definitions. It would be willing to post it, or scan it ad send it in. Cheers
Chris
Please don't feed the projectionist.
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John Walsh
Film God
Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 12-07-1999 11:09 AM
Yeah, I dislike "brainwrap" also. I've tried to move people to say, "platterwrap," but of course there's always someone who keeps saying "brainwrap." One person can 'reset' others to bad habits.When I train people, I make them say the correct name or term for parts or actions. While there will always be a slight difference in terminology, I'm not going to let them get away with calling the intermittent a, "jiggler;" or a sprocket a "roller." What I tell them is: imagine you are on the phone, talking to a service tech. You have to describe what is wrong, without the tech being able to see. I word it that way, so they can see that it's in their own best interest to be accurate: he can't help you if he doesn't know what you are saying. And no one is more desperate than a newbie with a problem in the booth. If they say there is something wrong with "the sprocket," which one? If they say, "the upper sprocket" that could still mean one of three. If the film is jumping (up and down quickly) people will say "flicker" which means varying light brightness. A few times I have heard, "the picture is off the screen" which turn out to be the aperture plate was at the wrong setting. Although, once I forgot to close the turret all the way...... One term people seem to have trouble with at first is "in frame," because it's used a little differently in different places. You thread "in frame." If you don't, that knob puts the film "in frame." When you splice, you should make sure the splice is "in frame."
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