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Topic: I'm one busy girl ... back in a booth! (c/o)
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Gracia L. Babbidge
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From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-09-2004 01:43 AM
Well, I had been out of projection booths for a bit over a year, and got back into it.
So far, it's been rather fun - the place is a single screen, only 100 seats in the auditorium. Naturally, it's a changeover set up. I'm working with a pair of Century MSA's in need of some TLC. I think that right now I might be the one person there giving the most attention to the cleanliness of the projectors, but I know my cleaning habits will catch on with my co-workers.
So, at the moment, I am working two jobs, and having little time off. I'm looking to rectify that PDQ - but then too, my patience level will surprise me at times when I least expect it. ...And I'll admit to thinking that film is more fun than shoes!
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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-09-2004 11:20 PM
Well, let's see, the place has xenons instead of carbon.
All sorts of quirks to this place! Projector 1 is a bit tricky to get the lamp lit from time to time, and is the harder one to focus after a lens change. Generally, if one area of the screen is going to be less focused than the rest, it's the far right side of the screen.
Let's see, when I started there less than a month ago, the pedals both worked fine for the changeover process. About a week and a half ago, when I was starting a 5PM show of Triplets of Belleville I heard something go *POP* quickly followed by the distinct smell of singed electrical bits. I jumped back and was trying to figure out what the hell happened when there was a second *POP*. Turns out that somehow the pedal stuck long enough to get some kind of short rendering the pedal useless, and fouling up the 'Zipper' on projector 2. So when the pedal by 2 was tapped, the internal douser on 1 would close, but the internal douser on 2 was stuck open. A situation that made changeovers interesting. This past Thursday when I arrived at the cinema, two electricians were tinkering with things as there was a short somewhere that caused a breaker to trip when attempting to run a show. Right now everything is rigged for completely manual changeover. The internal dousers aren't stuck and can be opened and closed manually. Switching from 2 to 1 is easier than 1 to 2, because with the former, you're already standing between the machines and can reach everything you need to. With the latter, it's a matter of turning on the motor & opening the hand douser at the first cue, darting around behind 2 to get in place to close the dousers on 1 right after switching the sound to 2 & opening the internal douser on 2. By the by, we get the lamp struck right after the 'reel end bell' sounds. The whole clambering around to do it all manually may be a bit unorthodox, but it's keeping us on screen.
Tonight while I was there closing, I was projecting Touching The Void ... which I must say, has been the most difficult film to project on changeover of the ones I've projected thus far at this cinema. The cue marks are damned small, and white, so they blend in great with all the images of snow!
Heh, I'm also the unofficial 'marquee bitch', being that I'm not afraid of heights, and can wrangle an extension ladder.
Other odds & ends, there's a dvd player and a vcr hooked up to a video-type of projector that hangs from the ceiling in the auditorium. We show our 'pre-show' dvd with that. That setup is also employed when the place is rented out for birthday parties or larger group things. Birthday parties are done in the AM so as to not interfere with show scheduling, and the kids can bring their own movie to watch, or a video game system to hook up and play on the big screen.
Now I'm not saying that I hate my job at the shoe store, but the job just doesn't really "fit" me anywhere near as much as working at a cinema. Shoe store dress code decrees no denim, at all. Cinema dress code says jeans are A-OK. Shoe store dress code states no "wild hair", at the cinema, I could show up with purple hair, and no one would be upset. What can I say? I love to wear jeans, and I want my hair to be purple again.
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