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Author Topic: Renting portable 35mm/xenon 16mm projectors Andy Uhrich Film Handler Posts: 3 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2005 posted 12-14-2005 02:36 PM                     Greetings, I will be projecting for an experimental film festival that takes place in Windsor, Ontario next February. Does anyone know of a place within driving distance of the Detroit/Windsor area that we can rent portable 35mm and xenon 16mm projectors? Thanks for your help, Andy  |  IP: Logged Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 12-14-2005 02:57 PM                     Not sure how far is Toronto is for you, you could contact Gordon Mcleod at Toronto, if he can not assiy I am sure he would know some one who can.....  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-14-2005 03:16 PM                        Another possibility would be Cinema Technology Services (CTS) in NYC. I don't know if they rent portable equipment, however.  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 12-14-2005 04:36 PM                     Also try Robert Film Service in St. Laurent, Quebec (514)337-4956. I bought a 16mm xenon projector from him and I believe he may also rent them.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 12-15-2005 08:41 AM                     Boston Light & Sound rents portable 35mm nationwide, but they are not cheap.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-15-2005 09:56 AM                        With BL&S you get what you pay for. They are very good at this game.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-16-2005 04:04 AM                        But they are not perfect. They brought in projectors for a summer film series at the Saenger in New Orleans a couple of years ago: 1. Color temperature was very different between projectors, & at reel changes it was blue to orange to blue to orange... 2. They were running silver optical tracks on red readers, & the upper freq distortion of silver tracks on red readers was at its worst in the musicals, the highest-attended & biggest investment on return ticket buyers. Oscar Levant's piano was a literally painful crash of noise at the top end. 3. I don't remembr if it was that same year, but one year the A-chain between the two projectors was glaringly different. I think it was in Casablanca that the reel changes would go from having upper frequency response #1 to response #2 which sounded like dropping into mud.  |  IP: Logged Gordon Burke Film Handler Posts: 15 From: San Jose, CA Registered: Sep 2005 posted 12-16-2005 10:44 PM                        How well to xenon bulbs transport in portable or otherwise moveable equipment? Do rental businesses usually leave bulbs in lamphouses during shipment, or do they box them separately and let the renter risk breaking one during setup? Are they generally stable enough when cold that when equipment is packed in proper cases that nobody really cares?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-19-2005 10:23 AM                        Shipping a lamphouse with the xenon lamp installed may very well cause the lamp to explode if the lamphouse is jarred during shipment. The lamp should be removed, and put into its original safety shock-absorbing packaging. The other risk is that the people handling the shipment may not recognize the danger of a xenon lamp exploding (e.g., opening the lamphouse or looking into the lamphouse with the douser open).  |  IP: Logged

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