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Author Topic: Fun thing in Italy Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-12-2003 06:16 PM                        Hi everybody! Since I started watching this forum, I saw many booth tools that none knows in Italy. Filmguard, platters, strange splicers, strange spools, reels and go on. Only in the last few years many megaplex were born and Italians projectionist started working with platters. I've just started working for Warner Village in my town and I was stunned when I saw the booth tools! I saw and I touched with my hands brand, name and tools that I just heard before. Jack roe, Kelmar... Was so strange! Finally I have right tools to work in a booth! My manager told me that they have a special liquid to remove dirt from print. Brad, you can imagine my face when I saw a box with "Film-Guard" on it!!! It's so strange! And we often call that strange tools as "the USA way"... Bye Antonio  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-12-2003 08:46 PM                     Thats odd given that your from Florence. I would have thought that in the south, perhaps around Salarno or Naples, booths would be more traditional.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2003 01:06 AM                        More traditional? You mean like with projection booths designed by Brunelleschi?  |  IP: Logged Sandie Caffelle Film Handler Posts: 24 From: Herefordshire, UK Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-13-2003 07:29 AM                        You see Antonio Just when you thought it was safe - Jack Roe pops up again !! Sandie  |  IP: Logged Michael Harlow Expert Film Handler Posts: 170 From: Faversham, Kent, UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-14-2003 05:22 PM                     Hi Sandie, Yes sadly Jack Roe pops up everywhere. Even here!  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-14-2003 10:08 PM                     Yes, more traditional. Not to start some anti-Italy campaign here or anything, but most know that the further south one goes in Italy the more traditional and laid back the lifestyle is. Milan, Florence, Genoa - northern Italy is far more industrialized and modern than the south. Thats not to say the south is still in the 19th Century, but face it, they are behind their northern countrymen and there is sometimes political friction. To bring it back to a theatre focused post, I'm just surprised Antonio hasn't worked with equipment most film handlers in Europe have been exposed to and consider essential to the job.  |  IP: Logged Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-16-2003 04:52 PM                        Aaron, Most of Italian 1-screen theater has automatic changeover, with two projector. With this setup most of your tools become not essential. Now I started with a Multiplex and I finally touch with hands what I daily see on this forum!!!! Bye Antonio  |  IP: Logged

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