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Scott D. Neff
Theatre Dork

Posts: 919
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 05-17-2000 12:48 PM

I'm sure there is an old thread somewhere talkin about this... but I just wanted to rekindle frustrations about the differences in regional projector dialect.

When I was first trained... I was trained to LOAD the projectors. When our manager was replaced, EVERY time I told him "I'm gonna go load #2" -- he'd ALWAYS, without fail respond with "Huh? Do we have a truck out back? Where are you taking #2?? We need that! Don't load it onto anything!" and he'd play stupid until I said "THREAD the projector."

I have him to thank for my annoyance every time I hear somebody say "LOAD" the projector.

THREAD the film through the BRAIN.
BUILD UP & BREAK DOWN movies.

I think that's the basics of the Cinema West dialect.

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Dwayne Caldwell
Master Film Handler

Posts: 323
From: Rockwall, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 05-17-2000 01:01 PM

I've heard of LOADING film onto a platter in the buildup sense. Only heard someone say they were going to LACE UP the projector once, but I didn't think that meant he was going to decorate the machine. I think it's safe to say you're manager doesn't understands the physics involved in moving a projector, Scott. It takes at least TWO people to LOAD UP a projector

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Aaron Mehocic
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 804
From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-17-2000 01:02 PM

Here in western Pennsylvania, we use both "thread" and "lace". I prefer "lace" because one would "thread" a sewing machine NOT a film projector. It doesn't take long for new folks in the booth to use the word "lace" when talking with me. If they don't, they know the tongue-lashing will follow!

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Dustin Mitchell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1865
From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 05-17-2000 01:02 PM

Thread and Load are both used here in Eau Claire Wisconsin. We don't 'break down' movies though, we tear them down.

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Dwayne Caldwell
Master Film Handler

Posts: 323
From: Rockwall, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 05-17-2000 01:09 PM

If THREADING is like sewing, then would splicing be STITCHING? I've also heard of STRINGING UP a projector. Does that qualify as tongue lashing material, Aaron?

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Howard Johnson
Film Handler

Posts: 87
From: Felpham , West Sussex, UK
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-17-2000 01:21 PM

In England I think most projectionists LACE their projectors. THREAD seems to be used by amateur enthusiasts with 8mm projectors. Howard Johnson

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 05-17-2000 02:48 PM

Funny, no one has mentioneed "string it up" yet.

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Christos Mitsakis
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 242
From: Ag.Paraskevi, ATHENS, GREECE
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 05-17-2000 03:14 PM

in Greece is its "pass the film through" the projector.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-17-2000 03:50 PM

One loads a camera. One threads or laces a projector. If one strings a projector then you must be hanging it out to dry..... You better use darn good aircraft steel cable! Or a crane if you have AA-2's.
Mark
P.S. What the heck happens to them when they are on the rinse/spin cycle?
If you "pass the film through" the projector wouldn't that leave a big hole in the mainframe?

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 05-17-2000 04:17 PM

Yes, you can thread a projector AND a needle, but don't forget you can also lace your sneakers!

I'm okay with just about any terminology, as long as they don't call the projector a CAMERA, and film TAPE! This is ultimate ignorance.

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Jeff Stricker
Master Film Handler

Posts: 481
From: Calumet, Mi USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-17-2000 04:25 PM

Been using THREAD since I learned in the late '50's.

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Travis Cape
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 122
From: St. Louis, MO, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 05-17-2000 05:07 PM

Here is the midwest it seems to be standard to Thread a projector. I always thought the term Lace was used by AMC operators who were just in the booth to avoid the popcorn sales.

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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 05-17-2000 05:31 PM

Up here in fargo make-up, tear-down and thread are used most often. never heard of
"lacing up" a projector though.

Hey Dustin, do you work in that drive-in in Eau Claire?
mabe I'll drop by this summer.

Josh

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Aaron Mehocic
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 804
From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-17-2000 09:33 PM

Dwayne,
Ah my friend, you see that is exactly why "threading" is the WRONG terminology for putting film inside the machine. One does not "stitch" film, it is impossible! Therefore, how can one "thread" film? Thread is an entirely different medium.

Annoyed yet?

Aaron

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Ethan Harper
E-dawggg!!!

Posts: 325
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 05-17-2000 10:07 PM

i use teh term "thread " because that is what i was raised with. i once had a girl proj. who worked with me at cinemark who was from virginia. She exclaimed that she was going to "lace up" a side. This was a completely new and weird experience for me. at first i just thought she did not know what she was talking about.

im my own opinion the def. ot thread is to feed somthing trough somewhere else to a given destination. Oh im sorry i mean "Final Destination".

Lacing is when you mix two objects together?

Although my tech uses the term load a print but when he is running a booth, he actually calls it threading.

Used in a senetence. thread my laces in my shoes.

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