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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 07-12-2000 12:45 AM      Profile for Ian Price   Email Ian Price   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Film-Tech’s Projectionist Travel Network

I love to travel. I now live in a very beautiful place on earth. I have heard of these travel clubs where people trade houses for a week to live in another city. It works real well when you are talking about Paris and New York.

How about a projectionist travel network? I come live in your house for a week and pull a few shifts in your booth. You come live in my house for a week and do a few shifts in my booth. This would also work for theatre managers.

What can I offer on my end?

I live in Sonoma County California about 50 miles or 90 Kilometers North of San Francisco. Sonoma County is the center of America’s wine industry and there are vineyards just a mile from my theatre. The rugged Pacific coast is 30 miles west of the theatre. Sonoma County is considered one of the most beautiful in California.

I can set up a tour of Dolby Laboratories. My theatre is a five-screen art house in a town of 150,000 people. You would have full use of Norge, my Dodge minivan.

What places would I like to visit?

There is a nice theatre in Maine and we have all those lads in Australia and I remember we have someone who posts from the Netherlands. Think of all the exotic places we could go yet still have some common interest that binds us. Some people would find themselves working in new, state of the art complexes. Some would find it interesting to run fifty-year-old projectors, reel to reel.

Yes I know there would be a bunch of hurdles to clear before this would work, but I know it could work and would be an adventure.

Not as an solicitation, It would be fun to see what others could offer in their area.



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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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Ian!

Come to beautiful Denver Colorado and work a few shifts at the lovely and enchanted United Artists Greenwood Plaza 12!!!! Oh wait. I don't work in that hole anymore.

Does anybody dream about working with tons of Christie products exclusively? If so, come to my theatre!

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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


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Joe,

Better add the disclaimers "must have experience in realigning Christie basement readers", "must bring own laptop" and "pain killers not supplied" for those Thursday night print moves.

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John Pytlak
Film God

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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000


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Here in Rochester NY, we joke that George Eastman decided to build Kodak here because it is the world's largest darkroom and natural cold storage facility! Yes, the winters are dreary, cold, and snowy, with the sun rarely being seen. (Good skiing and ice fishing though). But summers are really pleasant, with the Finger Lakes wine country just a short drive south, and Lake Ontario keeping the heat in check.

Upstate NY is also the home of Bausch and Lomb (CinemaScope lenses), American Optical (70mm Todd-AO), and Theodore Case (the unsung inventor of optical sound).

The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House is a world-renowned film archive, and regularly screens classic prints, including nitrate, in its Dryden theatre: http://www.eastman.org/ Many of the original negatives for classic films are stored in their temperature-controlled vaults.

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com


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Dwayne Caldwell
Master Film Handler

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From: Rockwall, TX, USA
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I've always wanted to visit Scotland. We got any Scottish projectionists here? I have a fairly nice view of the Rockies here. Don't think I could entice anyone with full use of my '87 Honda Accord though.

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The man with the magic hands.


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Pat Moore
Master Film Handler

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Hmmm... I don't work a projection booth here in Omaha, but aside from a plant tour of Ballantyne of Omaha and Strong International, the area offers SAC (Strategic Air Command) tour and air museum, lots of cornfields and the best steaks in the country.
Visit Ballantyne and we'll show you our 180,000 square feet manufacturing facility and how our equipment is built from blank castings to final product. We'll put you on an assembly line if you'd like. All are welcome, just give us a few days notice. Come in groups if you can...

Pat

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Trevor Bailey
Expert Film Handler

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From: Woonsocket, RI
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 07-12-2000 12:14 PM      Profile for Trevor Bailey   Author's Homepage   Email Trevor Bailey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Ian,

What theater were you referring to in Maine?

Regards,
Trevor

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Bruce McGee
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999


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I dont have a theater, but you can come here and run my Holmes 8's while I sit and watch the movie in glorious mono. Also, you can have the use of my 1984 Ford F-150 truck with 292,000 miles on it. I might be persuaded to put some metal under the floor mats so that you can't see the road thru the floor. Dont laugh. It's paid for, and it made it to Cincinnati twice! Can you double-clutch? It's a bit iffy when shifting cold.

Bruce

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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Man Bruce, Where the heck do you live?? 292,000 miles and only two trips to Cincinatti? Wow! Thats some Ford!
Mark

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Jim Bedford
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From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99


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Hey Ian, I gotta booth you can run in Telluride over Labor Day. Doin' anything then?

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Ian Price
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From: Denver, CO
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You got it Jim. Will you be coming out to Santa Rosa to run my booth over Labor Day while I am away? As an added incentive, you get to ram two pills a day down Athena's throat.

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Jim Bedford
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From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99


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Do senile cat owners get senile faster?

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John Gordon
Film Handler

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Hello all,
I cannot offer work, but I can make suggestions on where to visit the sights: museums, the beach , mountains, the desert, amusement parks, etc. And also where some of the best commercial cinemas are located here in Southern California. If the timing is right, maybe even a visit to a studio screening room. But if you want to see an absolute state of the art facility, give me a call when you plan on being in town to make arrangements for a tour of the factory.

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John Gordon
Cinema Applications Engineer
QSC Audio Products, Inc.
1675 MacArthur Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714)754-6175
john_gordon@qscaudio.com
http://www.qscaudio.com

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Dustin Mitchell
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You all can come up (or down) and have a couple beers and a couple screwdrivers with me.

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Paul Konen
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Don't bother coming to Dallas right now.

Too Damn Hot. We are going to start counting out 100+ degree days. Mornings start off in the 80's between 7-8 am.

Paul.

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