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Topic: What is the value of a Simplex Standard?
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 07-02-2004 11:44 PM
Yeah Paul, ya gotta admit if nothing else it's been fun! BTW I'll bite, how did you get the 28" consoles up the 27" stairs? I am assuming some form of disassembly was required?
Ok I found a few pictures. Any more will have to wait for Adam to finish the coding for daily updates to resume.
First off, this particular location is a 7 plex. It is also a dinner theater. Because of the requirements placed upon serving out over 1000 meals an hour on the weekends, the movie schedule and auditorium placement are extremely critical. Because of this, movies can and often do play in a different auditorium on a show by show basis. To make "moving prints" easier, we simply don't move them. Hence, the platter array: ![-](http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?dir=uploads0503&file=SMGarray1.jpg) All of the platters are lined up in the middle of the booth and each platter can pay out to any projector and takeup from any projector. This makes possible print moves with the snap of the fingers with no risk of damaging the film from dropping it. It also makes interlocking a snap because it is built in to the normal routine of threading. ![-](http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?dir=uploads0503&file=SMGarraythreading3.jpg) These are what I call the "slide bars". They permit the film to be directed to any projector on either side of the array. The use of self-aligning rollers was mandatory so the rollers would pivot to match the angle of the film sag. This is a typical day, nothing special. ![-](http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?dir=uploads0503&file=SMGarraythreading.jpg) Again, a typical day with the films threaded up and running. Nothing weird going on this day. ![-](http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?dir=uploads0503&file=SMGdelayedinterlockceiling.jpg) Ok, so here is an example of something that we do which is a little odd. This is a shot of the ceiling during a 3 screen delayed interlock of one print. (Please pardon the poor condition of the ceiling grid, it was falling apart at the time of this picture and a new one was installed just after this picture was taken.) Delayed interlocks are convenient when it is desired to have two or more screens of a movie with different start times, but the theater doesn't want to book multiple prints and be tied into those contracts. This permits us to run say, one screen at 7:00, then a second screen at 7:20, then a third screen at 7:40 which gives the kitchen time to make all the dinners, whereas a normal interlock would wreak havoc on the kitchen getting slaughtered by multiple auditoriums worth of dinner orders all attacking it at once. ![-](http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?dir=uploads0503&file=darren.jpg) Funny after all this time no one ever noticed what Darren was standing in front of.
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-03-2004 01:31 AM
Then, in the middle of the whole shebang a shitty splice breaks and you are up to your ass in 14,000 feet of film.
Seems to me if I was to create something like you have, I would have some kind of sensors on each and every machine that would shut the whole damn system down in case something went horse shit which would usually happen on a typical Friday night with full houses. I would presume some other precautions such as a panic button to immediately shut everything down in case of a failure were in place just in case of some problem that could not be corrected while the system was running. And, if I were the projectionist under the interlock condition you posted, you can bet your ass I would be "trooping the line" for the entire run (without my coffee or cigarette breaks) looking for and correcting potential problems just for added insurance. I would not enjoy picking up and straightening out 14,000 feet of film while the management would have to giver all their customers a rain check.
I would rather bypass one machine and lose that house than to have a huge mess intertwangled with everything in case a breaker motor feed breaker blew in the 3RD machine of the food chain.
As far as your other question was concerned, 1. In the US Navy, we were taught to fit a square peg in a round hole. Actually, that was expected of us Standard Navy-Issue Chiefs. We had to do things like that alot. 2. Yes, some disassembly was required, but not anymore than necessary. 3. The real bitch was those 90-degree corners we had to negotiate on the narrow staircase. Mark, correct me if I am wrong, but we had to have that damn thing on the screen that night.
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