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Author Topic: Watching Great "Holiday" Films Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-20-2004 09:34 PM                  Today, I watched "March of the Wooden Soldiers" followed by "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", and now "From Dusk Till Dawn"...Afterward, I'm gonna cue up "White Heat" and then Rocky Horror! God! What a great day to kick back and do NOTHING and watch films! Yikes! Gosh! Life **IS** good! HA! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-20-2004 09:58 PM                      |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-20-2004 11:07 PM                  So Mike...not sure what yur point is? You either have to work today, just being an ass, or just jealous of my good looks... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-20-2004 11:15 PM                     Phil it was mainly #1... partly #2, and not #3!  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-21-2004 04:14 AM                     You should also throw in "Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert" to boot...  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-21-2004 07:35 AM                    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom LOL  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-25-2004 07:45 PM                     Happy olidays Here in SAGINAW MI, between the two theatres with which I work we had prints of "White Christmas" "It's A Wonderful Life" "Prancer" "Elf" "Surviving Christmas"  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-25-2004 07:55 PM                    Be sure to request the VistaVision version of White Christmas. Hehehe.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-25-2004 08:01 PM                     Steve, Last year we had a new print of "White Christmas" and it was very good visually but the sound was muffled. This year we got an old scratched print with several reels printed like "Day for Night". The sound on this pront was pretty muffled as well. All of the prints had the "Vista Vision" opening logo and the framing cues in the beginning of each reel. (Although I believe that you are talking about the horizontal projection system) Most reels had one or two frames left after the second changeover mark. Yes, we do use reels and Carbon light. KEN  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-26-2004 09:22 AM                     White Christmas was Perspecta Sound, no? Did you present it that way? Did your print have the control tones? Steve  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-26-2004 09:39 AM                     We ran It's A Wonderful Life Christmas eve in a single show to 780 and Christmas night to 500 in the early show. The best turnouts we've ever had for these showings.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-26-2004 07:50 PM                        Phil, Great topic you bring up... I finally watched "A Christmas Story" for the first time this year... Also, some other great films I watched.. Requiem for a Dream Dancing at the Blue Lagoon (anyone else ever see this? - It has Jenneifer Tilly {the reason I watched it} and Daryll Hannah in it)  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-26-2004 08:14 PM                     Steve, I did not hear any low frequency tones on the White Christmas sound track. I don't recall any logo at the credits either as the film made an abrupt end after "The End" title, even the music was cut off. When I was a lab tech in the EE Department at college, a professor had me build a "Perspecta Sound" like encoding and decoding unit for him. All built with vacuum tubes of the time. This was back in the 1959 era. The unit was pretty effective at making simulated stereo from MONO LP records. We never had access to or use for the unit in a cinema setting. Just an experiment to see if the theory worked. And it did. KEN  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2004 11:10 PM                     quote: Kenneth Wuepper All built with vacuum tubes of the time. Ken, most of those tubes you used are also(still)of this time as well. Mark  |  IP: Logged

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