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Author Topic: Merrie Melodies Projection Booth Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-06-2006 01:59 AM                     Just a few minutes ago I cought a Merrie Melodies Warner Bros Toon on Turner Classic Movies. Daddy Duck took Baby Duck to the movies. Baby Duck was being obnixous and disruptive. Daddy Duck got wacked by surrounding patrons. Daddy Duck then wacks baby Duck who then wonders off and ends up in the projection booth. Pretty good projection booth anamation! Babby Duck messing with the projectpr. Pretty good rendering of Peerless Magnarc. Not sure of the title, but it sure belongs in with Brad and Joe's Booth Training Videos! Kutler  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-06-2006 02:48 AM                        ...along with Sherlock Jr. and Gremlins!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-06-2006 04:21 AM                  Will, I saw that too. What I thought was weird is when they showed the projector's insides, NONE of the gears meshed even though they were all turning!  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 10-06-2006 10:43 AM                     In the 1941 film Hellzapoppin, there is a scene where one of the characters turns to the camera and calls up to the projectionist to backup so that he can try something again. The film cuts to Shemp Howard as the projectionist, who throws the Simplex Standard into reverse (not possible in reality) and backs up reality. There was also a 1950's tv show called Pete & Gladis, an I Love Lucy knock off. One of the episodes had Gladis trying to set a friend of her's up with the projectionist from their town theatre. There is a sequence where Gladis talks him into letting her watch the booth (carbon arc/reel to reel) while he goes out on the date that is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-06-2006 11:22 AM                     The Merrie Melody projector must be one of those "gearless" type  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-06-2006 12:40 PM                       quote: There was also a 1950's tv show called Pete & Gladis, an I Love Lucy knock off. One of the episodes had Gladis trying to set a friend of her's up with the projectionist from their town theatre. You sure that wasn't The Honeymooners? Sounds exactly like one of the episodes I know. The mock-up booth in that show consisted of a DeVry 12000 system, with Strong Utilitys.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 10-06-2006 08:13 PM                        And why can't you put a projector in reverse? If you could reverse the payout, to takeup, and had a way to reverse the motor. I've turned the flyweel backwards on our strongs plenty of times, and the sprockets will reverse, even the intermittant. But then again, I haven't/can't do it at full speed either, and there wasn't any film in it.  |  IP: Logged Edwin Sheldon Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Mobile, AL, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 10-06-2006 09:13 PM                     How would you get the film to run nicely backwards through the control plate?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-06-2006 11:28 PM                     My old Simplex is supposed to be able to run backward. I need a different gate and a special intermittent pad shoe which I don't think they make anymore. Then I'd need a reversible motor and film transport. I would never have a reason to actually do it but it might be fun to experiment with.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-07-2006 01:51 AM                     quote: Edwin Sheldon How would you get the film to run nicely backwards through the control plate? ..they're talking about the good ol' days of reel to reel changeover days..not this goo-goo plex platter jazz.. quote: Charles Greenlee And why can't you put a projector in reverse Simplex has a "PR" model that can do reverse in full speed (just can't remember the model number right off hand) ALSO, some models of Kinotones have the ability to run backwards as well. 16mm projectors were famous in going in reverse mode. You just have a spring belt up to the supply spindle to make that spindle do the takeup... -monte  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-07-2006 07:57 AM                     "Rock and Roll" Those projectors used in the sound suites are capable of forward and reverse, frame accurate positioning and sync to several magnetic recorders and players. The magnetic recording material used is full coated film. The hardware in the suites is awesome. The one in Detroit had both 16mm and 35mm capability. They did mostly commercials and documentaries along with some training films for industry. The sound levels in there often approached 110DB.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-07-2006 08:11 AM                     Since this expanded to booths in films lets not forget the signature theatre film The Smallest Show on Earth also there were 2 columbo episodes featureing changeovers as the clue to the murderers timing Also there was a british film i think it was titled the family way ? which had a young couple that get married and move in with the parents and the husband is a projectionist Also there was a film about a studio executive that seatured how he started ut with his projectionist and wife from a small theatre and move to hollywood and become a mogul (might have been the movie maker 1964) Also the australian film The Picture Show Man Also one of the marlyn films had a shot of here watching a screen test from a both with motiograph K projectors And 1941 had a booth with what must have been prototype mag penthouses The Adventures of George the Projectionist (2006) Cinema Paridiso The Projectionist (2006) The Inner Circle (1991) and of course The Projectionist  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-07-2006 08:25 AM                        Let's not forget Tyler Durden in "Fight Club" splicing in the frames of porn into the regular run features at the venue he was a projectionist at. I love that movie.......  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-07-2006 08:34 AM                     Some of 'Mr. Love' was shot in the box at the Phoenix, East Finchley, in the days when they still had Westars and Magnarcs. It's had a FP-20 with xenon and tower for as long as I've known the place, which must be only a few years after this film was made.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-07-2006 10:56 AM                     Simplex's rock n roll projector is the PR-1030 and is part of their studio line. Kinoton's rock-n-roll projectors start with the "ER" series and continue to the ES and ECII. In short, any of the Kinoton studio series of projectors will go forwards or reverse...the ER is not necessarily a current offering is part of a cinema line...it used a lifting roller for the soundhead. A proper Kinoton studio soundhead decouples the flywheel so the drum won't scuff the film. Steve  |  IP: Logged

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