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Author Topic: Storage of Cinema Screens Neil Walker Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Lowood, Queensland, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 08-16-2005 06:03 PM                     Hi, Just wanting to find out the best way to store a couple of cinema screens until I have a venue. They are Harkness Perlux 180. Thanks Neil  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2005 06:08 PM                        When you buy a new screen, it comes rolled on a tube with tissue paper covering the front, and slid into a larger tube. I assume you could store it that way (rolled) too. Just don't roll it too tight. I'm not sure whether it should be stored lying down, or vertically or if that makes any difference. Whatever you do, don't fold it.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2005 06:33 PM                     Some manufactures ship certain screens folded It is important that they don't freeze or get to hot or damp  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2005 07:23 PM                     Only certain Matte White screens can be folded. NEVER fold a coated gain type screen of any type. Storge at 70 deg f. or there about is reccomended until it is hung. Mark  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-17-2005 08:56 AM                     Most pearlescent screens I get nowdays are folded  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-17-2005 09:03 AM                     Generally small to middle sized screens, coated and uncoated, from Harknesss, M.D.I.,Cinemeccanica and our company come folded. USA style screens such as Technikote and Hurley with a thicker PVC fabric come rolled. Harkness 180 is an excellent high gain screen but because of this higher gain it is more prone to experience damage the longer it is in storage. If the unit is in the original factory box, I would not personally have it stored for more than six months under ideal "air conditioned" storage and box not stacked vertical or with other items on top. The coating is damaged by heat and humidity and long term storage introduces creases as the PVC ages that are hard to relax.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-17-2005 09:19 AM                     Cinemeccanica makes screens? Do they shake a lot?  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-17-2005 09:35 AM                     quote: Adam Martin Cinemeccanica makes screens? Do they shake a lot? Yeah, but if you use their projector, you cant tell  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-17-2005 11:02 AM                     Cinemeccanica = Matte and Sunnyscreen FX. In their four story projector facility in Milan the screen painting is done with the screen traveling vertically on a track between floors....a sight to see  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-17-2005 09:43 PM                     You guys can install all the folded up screens you want to but there is something about them that just never seems to look right after they are hung..... Rolled is really the only way to go with coated surfaces, especially when stored for any length of time. Harkness also specifies not to store a folded screen for no longer than necessary!! That theory would wisely apply to other manufacturers as well. Mark  |  IP: Logged Trevor Anderson Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Fadden, ACT, Australia Registered: Aug 2004 posted 08-22-2005 01:05 AM                        Harkness screens generally come folded in half on a thick cardboard tube with a protective layer against the painted surface. Cinemeccanica screens come folded up in a cardboard box and the creases take quite a long time to 'drop out' after installation. Stewart screens I have seen come rolled full length on a tube. I have had a Harkness screen in storage folded in half with the original protective sheeting for quite a while and took it out recently to cut a smaller screen from it. The small screen I cut still has a lot of creases after a couple of months. The manufacturers obviously expect their screens to be installed and tensioned only a few days after manufacture.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-25-2005 08:51 AM                        quote: Harkness also specifies not to store a folded screen for no longer than necessary!! Well, "necessary" is a particularly scientific measurment, is it?! I mean, I can think of lots of things that could make it "necessary" for me to put off getting up on a Genie to futz around hanging a screen...heh heh.  |  IP: Logged

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