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Author Topic: Projection in Japan. Duncan Smith Film Handler Posts: 50 From: England Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-25-2005 08:09 AM                     Hi, I am planning a trip to Japan sometime in the near future (when money permits! ) and wonder about what I may find there. I am hoping to get into some projection rooms while I'm there and may even consider working if the situation was right (visa's, time etc). Does anyone here work or have worked in projection in Japan and what are/were your experiences? What's it like and what are the chances of work in the arthouse/preview end of projection for someone with experience and conversational Japanese. Apologies if this is in the wrong forum but I was a little unsure of where to put it. Arigato gozaimasu!  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-25-2005 07:31 PM                     You will probably find a whole lot of Tokiwa projectors and film handling equipment... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Duncan Smith Film Handler Posts: 50 From: England Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-26-2005 08:32 AM                     Aaron my friend, thank you for that. That was truely the most basic website I have ever visited, and it's Japanese!! Why is it that some of those projectors remind me of the Cinemeccanica Vic 5..? Hhmmmm.... Full phonetic translation servies in place too...I'm used to seeing it, but it stil made me laugh when I clicked on the link to "Sheet" thinking they sold screens as well, only to find seats! Well, thanks for the info, has anyone ever worked on these machines? What can you tell me about them from any hands on experience gained? Thanx.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2005 09:22 AM                     They are more like an ernemann VIII or VII in that they are all gear driven with a barrel shutter They are very durable  |  IP: Logged Alejandro Lopez Film Handler Posts: 22 From: Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) Spain Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-26-2005 05:13 PM                     Go to Links and look at "Japanese made 35mm projectors". I think you´ll like it. Alejandro.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-26-2005 05:36 PM                     I know that there is still one in constant use at Skywalker Ranch. Gord: The newer TSR has a conical shutter rather than the barrel shutter. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-26-2005 05:44 PM                        That link to Japanese Made 35mm Projectors isn't working.  |  IP: Logged Dick Twentyman Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Highton, Victoria, Australia, Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-26-2005 09:47 PM                  Hi All, I have worked with Tokiwa 35mm portables with 8000 ft. spool capacity - not impressed. Threading is very cramped, and the inching knob is on the end of the drive motor. By the end of a spool, the motor is so hot that it is impossible to touch inch the machine over for at least 15-30 minutes.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 12:34 AM                     quote: Aaron Sisemore You will probably find a whole lot of Tokiwa projectors and film handling equipment... I've heard that you're more likely to find alot more Christies over there than anything else...... Remember Christie is also a Japaneese company..... quote: I have worked with Tokiwa 35mm portables with 8000 ft. spool capacity - not impressed. Threading is very cramped, and the inching knob is on the end of the drive motor. By the end of a spool, the motor is so hot that it is impossible to touch inch the machine over for at least 15-30 minutes. | IP: Boy thats an understatement for sure. The T-60 has got to be one of the very worst projectors ever manufactured. I used to own one many years back and I called it the meat grinder. Actually the motor gets so hot its just three degrees from melting down . Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-27-2005 01:16 AM                     quote: Christie is also a Japanese company yea...Ushio - Monte  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 09:43 AM                     Mark the T60 was a portable and bore little resemblance to any theatrical machine  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-27-2005 03:28 PM                        Let's see... Bill Bunch lives in Japan and was doing theater tech work for AAFES. Don't know if he has been in many Japanese booths but he certainly lives in the right place to do so. Don Sneed has been doing lots of cinema installs for his company in Japan lately. Don't know what he's been installing though. The only Japanese booths I've seen have been on video tours of Studio Ghibli and the Ghibli Art Museum. Don't know how typical their equipment choices are compared to Japan in general. This is the Vic 5 installed in the Saturn Theater, the Ghibli Museum's screening room: Here's the platter going in at the museum: And here's a couple of shots of the screening room booth at the studio: [ 01-27-2005, 07:06 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 04:04 PM                        Has anyone figured out why most Japanese films come on reels that run about fifteen minutes each? Do they have a standard of 1500' max per reel or something? What do they do when they get films from other countries on 2000' reels?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-27-2005 04:40 PM                        All the shots I've seen in the video tours show them using 2000' split reels. Guess they must have a thing about not filling the reels too much. Here's the editor on Princess Mononoke checking a reel just prior to the first studio staff screening. It's a full reel for them (you can see the countdown):  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 07:18 PM                     quote: Gordon McLeod Mark the T60 was a portable and bore little resemblance to any theatrical machine Gord, Am well aware of that fact. I was merely trying to get across how bad the T-60 really is. A meat grinder for sure..... Paul, Thanks for posting those interesting shots !!! Mark  |  IP: Logged

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