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PEEKabizzle
Добавлен 7 июл 2011
Threading a 35mm Projector for the very last time.
The theater I work at just got done converting our projectors from 35mm film to all digital projection. This is me, starting the very last 35mm movie that will ever show at our theater.
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I was the head projectionist at a Hollywood Theater in Oklahoma. This was the projector I used and this is so amazing to watch. I recalled each and every step as it was happening. Love this.
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Yes. Great memories. I worked as assistant manager in high school at a local theatre (1980s). Assembled the films from 20 minutes reels delivered in metal film containers. We had reel to reel Brenkert projectors. We eventually switched to platter systems. True 35mm film and Dolby optical sound systems. So cool. 😎😎 This was a great job. I have zero interest in the filmless theatres that have replaced the classic film systems.
That person loading the film will be able to tell his grandkids back in my day we were able to touch movies. His grandkids by then will probably just have the movie streamed into their brains if not actually be able to participate in the movie like total recall.
Always good to see the film being taken to the take up plate on the plater before being threaded into the projector rather than thrown on the floor.
I remember when those Christies were brand new 😅
Awesome the springs back such memories I can remember this exact process. Best job Thank you for posting.
I did that so many times, I miss it
INSANE!
That is so ghetto
This looked so much fun.
I think i heard that some theaters still use 35mm film of movies.
I know a lot of people find 35mm film unnecessary, but there is something about it that makes it very special!
Молодец! Чики руки!
This bring back do great memories working st carmike back in the 90s ..good times
Ahh the good ol digital devolution..
Today IT experts does the job, who struggle with the "piracy paranoia" that Hollywood does.
hah, the Christies .... have no good memories about them At least here in Germany they really sucked. Sorry. I was working at Village Cinema, and we had these projectors. Bad installation with many wrong things (grounding loops at the CP500 processors) and the Christies only had big problems. Anyhow, I would give anything to threat up a film again, doesn't matter wich projection system. Ok at least no Christie! ;-) BUT the digital projectors (they learned from Barco) are great! Anyone worked with Sony, Kinoton, NEC Projectors know what I mean ;-)
Flashbacks to the Summer/Fall of 1991.
Thanks for sharing this. Got to show my daughter what I used to do for a living.
Can you take out the movie with your arms and put in another plate ?
My god I miss doing this it’s so weird
Words cannot describe the fun on Thursday night building new movies.... it was like getting paid to have a party. PS: AMC had slick equipment those CHRISTIES have a special place in my heart. Mostly because they could be jerry rigged if things broke.
Easily my favorite job. Glad I got a few years in high school before dvd became normal
i just remember about 8 years ago we were in the booth removing 3 lamphouses and a platter to be replaced with a christie digital projector as when we were pushing the old xetron lamphouse we saw a porn magazine hidden underneath the lamphouse....and everyone look at each other and laught. i just thought i share it.....true story.
One of the funnest jobs I've ever had.
Damn, that was satisfying! This was my favourite job as a kid. Way better than flipping burgers or washing dishes haha! I was weird and even enjoyed serving popcorn. Driving a forklift and cutting wood was a close second haha! Oh memories.
Such a big part of my youth... still the best job I ever had. Thanks for posting it!
I loved being a projectionist. I could hide up in my booth all day and play with film.... And I can proudly say I never had a brain wrap!! Once they went digital, it sucked.
I used to do that. I was also there when digital was taking over.
Super Emotional
Can you remove that movie with your arms and put in another plate ?
I was a projectionist for 35mm film from 2002-2005. We had metal clamps for moving prints. The clamp was 2 c-shaped pieces that connected together with a bolt that had a little plastic handle on it. One piece went on the inside of the print, and one on the outside. You'd put about 3 clamps on, strategically placed around the perimeter of the movie. Then you would get your hands under it, lift one edge off the platter, slide it to the edge, and pull it off the platter, letting the momentum carry the print to your side. You would then carry it with your hand under the inside of the print to your side, and hoist it into the platter in the new location. My theater had 5 screens with 3 separate projection booths, so we often had to move entire prints from one booth to another when we changed movies over on Thursday night. It's scary the first few times, as dropping the print would lead to disaster. But, once you got the hang of it, it was pretty easy as long as you're able-bodied enough to carry something that heavy.
I don't have any movie or pictures but I took it off with my arm ,and I made a support
I was a manager at a movie theater for a few years and I miss this part of the job. Brings back such memories.
FWIW I happened to be doing a corporate job at the auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and worked from the projection booth - in addition to the usual digital projection, they had a line-up of film projectors, both 35mm and 16mm. Impressive, but nothing like the one in this video though.
That's sad : (
Watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on 35mm film yesterday at Arclight Pasadena. God I miss the look of celluloid film on the big screen.
Oh man, I miss working with film. Digital projection took all the fun out of it.
I was born at the end of film projection. There's only one theatre near me that shows 35mm, and they don't do it that often. Maybe someday I'll buy a projector (or two) and open a cinema.
I miss this job but it's nice not working weekends and holidays now!
Please bring 35mm projectors back, America!
Ah! My old job. Lousy hours and pay, but i loved it. But the projectionist who taught me banned the use of the word "threading" from the booth. We were LACING, he said, which he insisted was a more elegant word.
Nice to see all us old timer projectionists seeing this. I could thread with my eyes closed.
Any ex projectionist ever have a brain wrap? Lol
When the film tangles in the brain? Haha! Yes. And I once pulled one out too violently and the film spiralled outwards like a coiled spring.
I've had some shit happen lol
Yes, it's funny to me now but quite frightening when it happened. Gotta spin the platters back, trim and splice that sombich like a one-man NASCAR pit crew and get it back working. Good times! (though the only time it happened to me, the "other projectionist" threaded it before the end of his shift and I didn't check his work, if I had, I would have noticed that he used the one brain unit that ran notoriously off speed).
Best job ever I'm obsolete now in the booth but I still work at my theater
Ahh I miss this job! Pretending I was a ninja, running from screen 1 to screen 12, ducking under, jumping over and dodging the interlocked films when I heard a noise that wasn't 'normal' to make sure I fixed the problem before it got out of hand! The whurrrrr and click clacks of the projectors, the psscht of the xenon bulbs starting up.... therapeutic!!
How do you get it off the platter? Do you have to slide something under it like you do with a pizza?
We would just thread it into a machine that wrapped the film back onto the reels it come on.
My theaters didn't have cross platform pully systems so to move a print you had to but clamps on them that were like two C shaped things that interlocked with each other. Like this [ ] To build up and tear down a print you had a special table that would signal the platter to spool on (or the motor on the table) to spool off of. The tear down was a particular pain in the ass because if you missed the splice you had to back up to find it.
I was main projectionist in Cinema City for 19 years in Hungary, and I'm fired 2 weeks ago, because the DIGITAL projectors fully automatized. Now, the managers control them from the office.
Bummer sorry to hear that
Our theater keeps one 35mm Christie setup in case we have specials shows that require film. Otherwise we are all digital now. Here's an original 35mm print of Star Wars running through the projector the last time we used it (2016). ruclips.net/video/Nbppf3g7lyQ/видео.html
Oh I miss this so much