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Jack Ondracek
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Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 08-13-2014 09:48 PM
I wouldn't have thought Motiographs were a good choice for drive-ins. I was always told the barrel shutters were light hogs.
Over the years, some "experts" have insisted the other three were best, for various sundry reasons.
In the end, I wonder if it wasn't more of a regional thing. If you were in the territory of a Century rep, that's probably what was in many of that area's drive-ins. Out here, we had a Motiograph dealer, and you wouldn't believe the walls of Motiograph indoor amps... 6, 8, 10 of them, cobbled together to feed one field.
Over on the eastern side of the state, there was a lot of Simplex.
We had quite a few turnkey RCA installs... Brenkert projectors, Enarc, or Core-Lite lamps and full-RCA sound gear. Great amplifiers. I know of two that are still in service.
For me, I didn't see a lot of difference between Brenkert & Simplex. I heard the talk about "f" this and "f" that, but the fact is that most of us had (have) underlit screens and always will.
The Century's seemed to look as good as any of them, but in a dusty environment, I tended to avoid them. Liked the sealed machines better in those places.
I started with Brenkerts and eventually shifted to XLs. Still unhappy about all the nice 35mm gear in my hangar.
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