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Masao Garcia
Film Handler
Posts: 34
From: Lancaster, CA, USA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 11-13-1999 04:02 AM
My night was okay, but leaned toward the bad. Thursday night, I had stupidly put the same trailer on twice (on Messenger). To make things worse, I had the worst static problem when I played the screening (I didn't watch it; I watched my future wife's movie, Anywhere But Here...and I'm talkin' 'bout Natalie Portman, ya sickos...). Anyway, my movie got done way before Messenger, and I saw how bad the static was and the suction cups were barely holding on. Just before the credits, I heard the suction cups snap off and got to the projector in time to stop the film from melting. There was the hugest lump in the remaining part of the film that I had ever seen. I cleared the brain wrap in about 5 minutes (this was at almost 4 in the morning, BTW) and I had to babysit the POS for the remainder of the show. Anyway, the static problem was still there today and my usher-B didn't take off the duplicate trailer, so I had to end up doing it, and babysitting the static prone film for two shows. Crap.--MG
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Scott Ribbens
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 118
From: Los Angeles
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 11-14-1999 02:21 PM
I don't know what kind of pull stations you have for the fire alarm system, but if they are anything like the ones that I had at the Theatres that I have worked in, they make a clear plexi cover for the pull stations that has to be removed before you can pull the alarm handle. When the cover is removed, a buzzer in the cover sounds. We did not originally have the covers, and had a few false alarms (mostly from young children who could just reach the alarm pull handles), then we got the covers, installed them, and did not have another false alarm for the rest of the time that I worked at that Theatre. You might want to look into getting some. ------------------ Scott
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John Walsh
Film God
Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 11-14-1999 03:09 PM
"Friday night was ok for me...." "At 11:30 some other kid pulled the fire alarm..."I always wonder why parents would bring their little kid to a 10:00PM show of a film like "Pokemon?" It looks like anyone under the age of seven would be bored with it, and anyone that age should be home in bed.
Or, am I just getting too old!? It was also a little sad to look out the port window and see most of the kids with a single parent. I'm sure not all of them were divorced/seperated, but still, in my family, we did everything together (movies, argue, whatever.)
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