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Topic: (for fun)What is your life long screen count?
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-21-2003 11:36 AM
As a paid projectionist:
5 single screens 2 three-screens 3 two-screens
Making a grand total of 17.
Add three more single screens if unpaid projection at student film societies count. And add another single screen if you count the occasion when, as a customer, I fixed a show breakdown. It was a little fleapit on the North Devon coast. The projectionist had gone home after starting the last show, and about an hour into the film the sound went. The manager stopped the show and offered everyone a refund (I later found out that the projectionist had gone home, 10 miles away, and had subsequently drunk himself over the limit and so could not come back), at which point my 'friend' shouted 'He's a projectionist, he'll fix it!'.
I couldn't really refuse under the circumstances, so up I went and found a blown exciter bulb. They had a spare on the shelf, so I replaced it and restarted the film. I left a note for the projectionist telling him to reset the Dolby levels, but judging from the layer of dust over the CP-55 I don't think it had been opened up in many years.
They would have had to give out a fair few refunds if I hadn't have been there, because it was almost a sell-out house.
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