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Author Topic: Ballantyne VIP Projector Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-22-2003 04:27 PM                        Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a picture of the Ballantyne VIP projector.. Could anyone please provide a good picture of this? Thank-you!  |  IP: Logged Greg Pauley Expert Film Handler Posts: 173 From: Huntington, WV, USA Registered: Jun 2000 posted 09-22-2003 06:17 PM                        You can go to our website at www.ourshowtimes.com and select the Park Place Stadium Cinemas page and take the digital tour. You will find your way to the projection booth that has a Pro35 projector with a model 7 sound head on a VIP base.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-22-2003 09:40 PM                     Andrew, here is a new Pro-35 that just got off the assembly line. I took this picture at Strong International when Josh and I toured the plant.  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-22-2003 11:00 PM                     Andrew: VIP is the pedestal base. Pro-35 is the projector head. Here on the manuals page look under misc. and you'll see Ballantyne VIP.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-22-2003 11:12 PM                  For an answer to your question about the VIP projector and not just the projection head, see below. I've installed well over 300 of those bases but with mostly 870 heads. (Don't know where this pic is from...I probably stoled it from Brad's website at some point!) >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-23-2003 12:13 AM                     Almost looks like a Marcus house in Wisconsin I once serviced.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-23-2003 12:16 AM                    Shame those projectors don't have the Rewind system on them. Ones I worked with years ago had the ability to rewind on the projector. So you didn't have to keep taking reels off and on unless you changed features of course.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 09-23-2003 01:27 AM                     Great photo Phil, hopefully I'll have my parts back soon so mine can look as good as those sexy machines. Paul, what is that warning sticker?? Is that a "DON'T TOUCH THE FRAMING KNOB!!"? or a "don't stick fingers in moving sprockets"? I can't tell... Danny  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2003 01:30 AM                        I, too, am wondering about that warning sticker. How does the onboard rewind system work? Is it just a motor attached to the feed arm and maybe a guidance roller in front of the machine to keep the film from hitting the projector body? I've never seen anything like this. Phil--what's with the wimpy lamphouses in that large(ish) booth? Does the VIP base have motor driven takeup shafts?  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-23-2003 02:24 AM                    The rewind was a clutch driven reel arm that had a motor on it. It had a control unit mounted on the top of the head that extended outward. THis control had a roller on it that was basically an on off failsafe type switch. Located at the base of the projector just below the soundhead was another roller that the film came up from the takeup reel to the controle roller to the payout reel. After rewinding was complete the controle roller would drop and rewind would stop,  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-23-2003 02:09 PM                     Danny and Scott: What warning sign? This one?  |  IP: Logged Erick Akers Arse Kicker Posts: 201 From: Dallas, TX, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 09-23-2003 04:09 PM                     That's a good one paul  |  IP: Logged Larry Shaw Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Boston, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-23-2003 06:45 PM                        Fun fact to know and tell: The Ballantyne drive train design is a direct knock-off of Philips/Kinoton's DP-75. Of course that was done decades ago by completely different management, but interesting from a historical perspective nonetheless.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-23-2003 07:06 PM                     Danny and Scott--it's a "stick your fingers in the sprockets or gear train while the projector is running and they'll be given the 'Big Squeeze' and you won't be able to squeeze the Charmin for awhile" label.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-23-2003 07:11 PM                  Danny & Scott: That label is a warning for stupid people not to put their fingers in an operating mechanism. A sign of the times. Scott: Since I have no clue as to where that pic is from, I would have to assume the theatre is about the size of the booth and the screen is about 5x12. In all the stock VIP bases I have seen, the take-ups were belt-driven from the head. Larry: Is that a documented fact or another industry "old-wives-tale"? It seems like Kinoton has invented everything including great sex! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged

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