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Topic: Funny things your boss has said...
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Dominic Espinosa
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1172
From: California, U.S.A.
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 05-08-2004 04:25 AM
I thought this might be an intersting topic since it seems management is always telling you something ... interesting
Tonight I was demonstrating to my GM the amazing retention of small facts by our new projectionist trainee. He's been upstairs less than two weeks and is actually capable of threading, building up, breaking down, and generial trouble shooting. He knows where the soundtracks are, he knows how to change formats, he knows which soundtracks are which, etc. etc.
So to show some of what he's learned I asked him questions and he answered...We started with basic questions such as how many sprocket holes in a frame, etc.
I ask how many frames per second? He replies "24."
My GM then says "No...that's not right. It's 14". She was absolutely sure of it. She argued her point for the better part of 15 minutes. I found a manual that had the fps in it.
On another day I was talking to the assistant and she told me that one of the other projectionists had a brain wrap...He had actually just forgotten to take up the slack on the platter before he started it...Appearantly the projector is really called the brain...
Okay, not the best, but the 14fps story was good, you have to admit.
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Mark J. Marshall
Film God
Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 05-08-2004 10:09 AM
Three different people who went to booth training given by our GM came up to me and asked me about toothbrushes reacting in alcohol. Upon some investigation, I learned that he was telling everyone not to dip the toothbrushes in alcohol because they will react and make the alcohol turn pink. Note, he was NOT saying that the pink dust on the head of the toothbrush would get into the alcohol, but that the toothbrush itself would react with the alcohol, and turn it pink.
I took a brand new toothbrush out of it's wrapper and dropped it a brand new bottle of alcohol, put the lid back on the bottle, wrote the date on it, and put it on a shelf. About three weeks later we asked him how long this reaction was supposed to take, and when he said almost immediately we showed him the bottle. He changed his story soon after that.
For about the last year and a half the white board in our booth has a big note across the top that says "HOME OF THE AMAZING PINK ALCOHOL REACTING TOOTHBRUSHES!"
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