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Author Topic: 33 mm projector? I think Franklin institute made a Mistake Michael Moore Expert Film Handler Posts: 188 From: Dover, DE / USA Registered: Jun 2006 posted 04-27-2008 07:20 PM                        I was out with the family on Saturday to the Franklin Institutes exhibit of Star Wars, and when I was looking at the light saber display they stated that the sound effects were created by the hum of an old 33 mm projector and a microphone cable stripped to bare wire and struck against a TV tube. I took a picture but it did not come out at all. Anyone else go to the exhibit and read the same thing? I wonder if George Lucas approved the exhibit? I would think he would have picked up on it. I don't think there is a 33 mm projector. Mike  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-27-2008 07:52 PM                     No doubt they did make a mistake. I also know a guy that swears that Dimension 150 was projected from fim that was 150mm wide . Yea... there musta been a Phillips DP150 triple gauge projector for that job! 35mm, 70mm, 150mm... Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-27-2008 08:15 PM                       No, they meant 35mm. Ben Burtt was a projectionist at USC while attending the film school. They had either Standard or Super Simplexes in the booth, with selsyn interlock. He remembered the hum the selsyns made when they were switched on, so he returned to record them for the light saber effect.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 04-27-2008 08:39 PM                        Most of those effects were made with a guitar pickup on radio station guy wires. ("Hit the guy wire NOW with a hammer.") Louis  |  IP: Logged Christos Mitsakis Expert Film Handler Posts: 242 From: Ag.Paraskevi, ATHENS, GREECE Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-28-2008 01:22 AM                     Ben Burtt on Lightsaber sound  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-28-2008 05:16 PM                       Louis, the laser gun blasts were guy wire strikes (with some other elements mixed in). Many of the effects are more than one sound mixed together to create an entirely new sound - where one sound modulates another, not just a straight mix. For example, the fundamental sound in a Tie Fighter fly-by is the sound of a walrus roaring. I also thought it was cool that most of the low-rumble of the interior shots of the Death Star was really a recording of the air conditioner in Ben Burtt's hotel room, slowed down. Way cool stuff!  |  IP: Logged Michael Moore Expert Film Handler Posts: 188 From: Dover, DE / USA Registered: Jun 2006 posted 04-28-2008 08:22 PM                        I knew they made a mistake but don't you think they would want to have correct info if they are putting on such a display? I thought well maybe they had to have the whole thing approved by someone who controls Star Wars. what do I know, I think all the sound effect stuff is really cool. Most of it was recorded with common electrical things either in use or used in a different way. The one thing I did not like about the Star Wars exhibit was they did not really talk much more about sound effect other then the light saber. they really focused on the land speeder and Hovering vehicles of the future, and the space ships of tomorrow and how they compare with Star Wars ships. They focused the most on Empire (at least from what I could see), then the other episodes. Mike  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-29-2008 03:23 PM                     Tim said "I also thought it was cool that most of the low-rumble of the interior shots of the Death Star was really a recording of the air conditioner in Ben Burtt's hotel room, slowed down. " And all these years I thought they recorded the airhandlers in a THX theatre that failed opps I mean that the corporations still got passed  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-29-2008 06:30 PM                        |  IP: Logged

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