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Topic: who is installing the last 35mm film projector?
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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler
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Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 12-13-2012 07:34 PM
It Could be Me !!! I removed the old 35mm lamp house's & projectors with newer console & projectors at The historic Admiral Drive-In theater on the old Route-66 in Tulsa, OK...reopened in July-2012...
on November 23,2012 I Installed an Optimax, Simplex 35mm & Strong AP-3 platters at the Circle Cinema-3 theater in Tulsa, OK, This was a single screen, now a three screen, screen 1&2 is ready, still working on screen #3...no sign of Digital Cinema here...
Question is: Who will install the very last 35mm film projector...this could be a 35mm film trivia question one day & the person could go down in history....could happen...
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Scott Norwood
Film God
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-13-2012 07:47 PM
Don beat me.
My first and possibly last start-to-finish 35mm cinema installation was this summer. After two years' worth of renovations, this theatre re-opened on August 31, 2012, exactly 85 years after the building was first opened to the public. This is primarily a performing-arts house, but has and will continue to screen classic films on an occasional basis to the public and also for rentals and special events. As a special venue, I believe that film will be around at this place (and others like it) for years to come.
They also have a nice Christie video projector (not D-cinema, however), and are set up to do seamless changeovers from film to video and back (stomp on either foot pedal and a "douser close" command is sent to the video projector; hit the "video c/o" button and both film projector changeovers close and a "douser open" command is sent to the video projector). I have wanted to have this capability for years and it has proven to be useful several times already.
The film equipment was a mixed bag of used items. The projector heads and bases were original to the theatre (installed around 1960, it seems), while the lamphouses, rectifiers, and modern sound equipment were purchased used. Tim Reed worked with the electrician to install the lamphouses and rectifiers and also designed and installed a relay box for the video changeover system and the motor-start signals for SRD. I wrote the specifications for everything and installed and aligned the projectors, which have lenses and aperture plates for four formats, and installed LED readers and did A- and B-chain alignments. The sound contractor installed the video projector (it hangs from the ceiling and uses an extra porthole to the right of the #2 projector).
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