[QUOTE=Mark Gulbrandsen;I'm still puzzled why you would want to put these back to the Rube Goldberg style system that was obviously abandoned in later-simplified versions of the system??? Have you contacted John Sittig yet?
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Hi Mark,
I don’t know what you mean by Rube Goldberg
system. All I am trying to do is using the original
system that was installed and used on at least the first 40 or so installations. According to people who operated it it worked quite well.
John Mitchell whilst he had the system did not use it, he manually advance/retarded the sync on the three machines. He later put selsyns on the machines. My intention is to restore it as it was built and installed.
The Cinerama installation in Plaza Sydney was installed second hand from the Roseavelt theatre Miami Beach. The Plaza Melbourne was installed
second hand from the Tech Cinema Buffalo New
Jersey. The Cinerama theatre Christchurch was
installed second hand (in the 60’s) from Kuala Lumpur Malaya (not 100 percent on where it came from). What I am trying to illustrate is that
Cinerama wouldn’t be installing and recycling
something that didn’t work!
I have not been able to get in touch with John
Sittig. I don’t do Facebook or Linked in.
Perhaps someone who knows him maybe they
can refer him here to the Forums?
Cheers Bill.
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Hi Mark,
I don’t know what you mean by Rube Goldberg
system. All I am trying to do is using the original
system that was installed and used on at least the first 40 or so installations. According to people who operated it it worked quite well.
John Mitchell whilst he had the system did not use it, he manually advance/retarded the sync on the three machines. He later put selsyns on the machines. My intention is to restore it as it was built and installed.
The Cinerama installation in Plaza Sydney was installed second hand from the Roseavelt theatre Miami Beach. The Plaza Melbourne was installed
second hand from the Tech Cinema Buffalo New
Jersey. The Cinerama theatre Christchurch was
installed second hand (in the 60’s) from Kuala Lumpur Malaya (not 100 percent on where it came from). What I am trying to illustrate is that
Cinerama wouldn’t be installing and recycling
something that didn’t work!
I have not been able to get in touch with John
Sittig. I don’t do Facebook or Linked in.
Perhaps someone who knows him maybe they
can refer him here to the Forums?
Cheers Bill.
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