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Topic: One Thing Digital will never Acomplish ?
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-17-2015 11:19 AM
If you're confronted with that situation, the key to recovering from it is:
1. Don't panic. 2. Look for the end of the film. Just look. Do not touch the film pile. 3. When you've located the end, lift it off and start winding around a core. The film will come up the way it went down - gravity. If you left the pile alone and didn't rummage around in it, the film shouldn't have tangled.
That was the advice I was given after one memorable afternoon in the mid-90s. The manager's seven year-old child was in the building, and during the morning children's show he decided that messing around in the booth was more fun than watching the movie. So he detached the film from the take-up tensioner arm (ST200), watched it feed out of the bottom of the projector and onto the floor for a few minutes, got bored and went off downstairs. The projectionist was trying to fix a problem with the box office PC at the time, and she didn't return to the booth until the movie was nearly over, and almost an entire print of Mousehunt was on the floor. She called me, and when I came in I called a friend who had much more experience with platters than I did, who gave me the above advice. It worked - we got the film off onto cores and re-plattered it, after which there was hardly any dirt or scratching on it. You wouldn't have known that it had been on the floor, looking very much like the scene in Steve's picture. The fact that we mopped that floor at the end of every shift undoubtedly helped as well, and that experience is one of the reasons I don't like carpeted projection booths.
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