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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 02-01-2002 01:34 AM

Ad from a trade magazine?

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William Hardie
Film Handler

Posts: 8
From: Calgary, AB, Canada
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 02-01-2002 02:37 AM

Please see later post in this thread

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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 02-01-2002 12:16 PM

Here's a reaction from a retired projectionist in Pennsylvania:

Dear Mr Cohen
I certainly hope the poster was a gag. To tell you the
truth in the industry as it stands now I don't know
if such a thing IS a gag anymore. I can tell you this.
If there was such a contraption they wanted to sell
it on the merits of the fact that it had an
"automatic framer" they wouldn't sell a single one.
Running a whole show with the film out of frame or
out of focus with their current equipment does not
bother a lot of exhibitors now.
More later
Paul

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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 02-01-2002 01:58 PM

Actually, while this so called ad may be a gag, it is possible to automate threading and framing. You don't even have to thread it up once as this ad would state. It wouldn't take much to design it, and a laser guided framing system would look for the frame lines and always keep it in frame, even if you had a bad splice. The framing time would be within a few frames so no one would ever notice.

With todays projectionist having so little training as most owners dont truly care about it, it is a good idea. Hell you can use an imaging system to keep it in focus as well. All it would have to do is scan each fram as it goes through and match what is projected on screen. Todays technology is rather amazing.

Who cares anyway, it's all DVD in five years anyhow.

Dave

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-02-2002 01:14 PM

Gerard, Most "retired projectionists" don't have a clue as to what going on today, at least if they ave been retired for any length of time.
Is is certainly possible to automate all of this. No problem.
Mark @ GTS

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Will Kutler
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1506
From: Tucson, AZ, USA
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 02-02-2002 01:42 PM

Mark!

I actually had an old time IATSE projectionist who is still working ask me if Simplex was still in business...he thought they were defunct!

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Ethan Harper
E-dawggg!!!

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

posted 02-02-2002 02:13 PM

I was always hoping that robots would eventually take over my job or a really really smart monkey named George.

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 02-03-2002 01:25 AM

Dave Williams wrote:
>The framing time would be within a few frames so no one would
>ever notice.

Actually with an electronic drive projector it can be done instantaneously (assuming you've figured out that it's out of frame). You simply command the stepper to advance 2, 3, 5, or whatever number of perfs instead of 4 as part of its normal pulldown.

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William Hardie
Film Handler

Posts: 8
From: Calgary, AB, Canada
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 02-03-2002 03:43 AM

I have been asked to remove my post, and after it was explained to me why it made sense.

Anyhow it is late. I just worked a second 13.5 hour day, and I am tired.

I have a question about my Vic VIII's and an oil return problem which I will post then it is off to sleep.

Cheers,

Bill

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