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Author Topic: Switcheroos Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-11-2009 05:28 PM                        Who thought up this name as a term for film clamps? And are they still alive so that I might be able to inflict torture upon them? I have never heard the term "switcheroo" until a few days ago. What's next, calling splicing tape "Stickymabobs"?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-11-2009 06:15 PM                     Roos were awesome! A pocket on your foot!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-11-2009 08:52 PM                        I thought they were called "Stick-a-poos" or "Scotcharoos." Oh wait...film clamps. Never mind.  |  IP: Logged Matt Young Film Handler Posts: 36 From: Kearney, NE, USA Registered: Jun 2009 posted 07-11-2009 09:36 PM                        We have to use those damn things at the 4 screen theatre we just bought about a month ago. The place has Pro 35's and old school Balco platters that wind so loose if we try to move a print without those it turns to jell-o I heard someone refer to them and squee-gee's once... I just call them clamps. They're a pain in my ass lol  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 07-11-2009 11:24 PM                     Years ago the multiplex I worked at had the clamps made by Christie and we called them the "Christie Grabbers".  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-12-2009 02:33 AM                     We got our first set of Christie film clamps in 1982, with no instructions on how to use them. I was working for UA then. Bobby Pinkston was the head engineer for Rowley United at the time. When Bobby asked how we liked the clamps, the fellow who trained me for booth, Darwin, told Bobby quite bluntly that he hated them, that the clamps were not worth shit. "I designed those!" Bobby says. *Darwin looks to the floor, thinking "Oh shit." Bobby then showed Darwin how they were used, and even autographed one of the clamps. I wonder now if Bobby wasn't pulling Darwin's leg... But if Bobby was telling the truth, Joe, then Bobby Pinkston would be the one to blame.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-12-2009 02:47 AM                        I've met Bobby (got a THX and JBL jacket from him) and he doesn't seem like a guy who would coin a nickname like "Switcheroo". I think some dumbass in the field or a dealer coined the term. Maybe a two-bit manufacturer with a similar product. Film clamps are great and every booth should have at least one full set, but the term "switcheroo"?  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-12-2009 03:03 AM                     Your right. Bobby didn't call them "switcheroos." Back then, he was calling them "film clamps." I've called them film clamps ever since. I misunderstood your comment. Did Bobby Pinkston actually design the film clamps that Christie marketed in the early 80s?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 07-12-2009 07:54 AM                        Switcheraroos and Stick=a=poos were named and designed by TECO of Matthews NC. (Still available under those names, too!) Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-12-2009 08:09 AM                    WAAAAHHH! WAAAHHH!!!! TEASER TITLE!!! I didn't know what "switcheroos" were until I opened this thread! BAN! BAN! LOCK! LOCK! CHANGE IT BEFORE WE ALL DIE!!! [/sarcasm] (You people know who you are, and you know you were thinking it)  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-12-2009 01:23 PM                        I don't know if Bobby actually designed them or not. If he did, he never mentioned it around me. I have always called them film clamps as well. Direct, descriptive and to the point. TECO must die. I think Monday or Tuesday would be a great day for them to file for bankruptcy.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-13-2009 06:25 AM                     I didn't know TECCO was still around They also made a xenon lamphouse, a platter, large reels, a rewinder, and a mono sound package  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-13-2009 08:31 AM                     Let us not forget the Bevanpoo!!!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-13-2009 09:31 AM                     Maybe Tecco will bring out a D cinema machine with a server cobuilt by SMART  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-14-2009 10:12 AM                        |  IP: Logged

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