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Author Topic: Oprah-fying film equipment: What did you obtain?! Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 01-24-2015 09:06 PM                     With the unfortunate near demise and conversion of 99% of theaters in the nation to digital, and us being the nerdy collectors that we are, what did you all score in conversions or closings?! I'm most proud of my 4 Prevost P-55 heads. I'm told they're likely the only ones left in the states. I know that can't be true, but there's likely not many? Anyone have any guesses on this? -4 p-55 heads -1 Simplex XL -2 Xetron XHN consoles -1 Brenkert base -1 SPECO LP270, one of the very first incarnations -Scads of spare parts for all of the above -1 Xetron auditorium light dimmer -1 Xetron interlock interface panel -1 Dolby CP500 -DTS disc player and 2 readers -Dolby cat 700? digital reader -Hundreds of NOS 130v brass base incandescent floods and a19s -Decent amount of NOS theater carpet -Huge rolls and rolls of NOS wall treatment fabric -Steel cabinet with retro Technicolor depot drop sign -A couple of hall signs with a full set of letters and some mylar -6 sconce lights -Splicers, reels, cleaners, etc -24 seats I'm sure I'm missing a bunch but that's the jist of it. It was all free. So I nearly have a full screening room worth of stuff. Pretty exciting.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-12-2015 06:23 PM                     I've had a modest old DeVry XD projector for screening my film collection over the last 20 years. During the last two years during the peak of conversions I've managed to acquire quite a bit of equipment just because it came available and was free and I have the space for it. Eventually I want to install just the best of the best into a purpose built screening room, keep an appropriate amount of spare This list is just off the top of my head: Projectors: 70mm/35mm: two Century JJ turret models with bypass rollers one Century JJ single lens model with bypass rollers 35mm: two Century SA one Century SAW one Century H one Cinemecannica Victoria 8r one DeVry XD Lamps: one Cinemecannica 450 watt vertical xenon one ORC 1000 integrated 750 watt xenon one Christie H10 1000 watt xenon one Christie C10 1000 watt xenon console one Christie unknown vertical xenon lamp Xenon power supplies: Christie 1000 watt portable Strong 2000 watt switcher LP Associates 2000 watt Lenses: mix of 10 or 12 of different focal lengths and scope adapters. Some old Kollmorgan, some newer ISCO and Schneider. Sound processors: one Dolby CP200 with MPU and upgraded for DA20 one Dolby CP50 one Dolby DA-20 one DTS6 one DTS6D one DTS XD-10 one Sony SDDS-2000 one Cinema Digital Sound Sound readers: one Dolby Cat 701 one BACP DSTR-20 one 35mm DTS one SDDS two Cinema Digital Sound Film handling: pair of Kelmar 2000 series reel arms (with 70mm conversion parts) pair of Kelmar 7000 series reel arms two Christie AW3R platters with one 70mm conversion kit two Christie MUTs Misc: spare test film, spare intermittents, rollers, splicers, etc etc etc  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 02-12-2015 10:20 PM                     Sounds like you have a lot more room than I do!! Haha. What an excellent haul! Since originally posting this, I garnered another dozen boxes of new old stock reel arms, splicers, Simplex Apogee and Strong SCDC3 parts, etc etc Very hopeful I'll get to use all this in a home screening room someday.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-13-2015 12:51 AM                     On one conversion, I did manage to tag a "JJ" SN#313. Unit doesn't have the bypass rollers - they're located within the sound head.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-13-2015 01:06 AM                     Cool, Buck. Maybe we can do some good old fashioned horse tradin' down the road. I could always use another pair of reel arms. I should also add that some things on my list I paid quite a bit for (like the Century JJ machines and some of the sound equipment) Not everything listed there was free but a good chunk of it was definitely headed to the scrap before I stepped in.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 02-13-2015 02:53 AM                     quote: Buck Wilson I'm sure I'm missing a bunch but that's the jist of it. Quite an impressive list, but I'm missing amplifiers and speakers. Would be perfectly fine if you'd be running silent films only, but I guess that would make the CP500+reader and DTS stuff at least somewhat redundant .  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 02-27-2015 05:12 PM                     True that! That's one thing I didn't grab anything of. The location I got most of this from had nothing but garbage past the processors so I didn't bother. I figured I'd worry about it when I set up my screening room and get high quality equip worth having.  |  IP: Logged

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