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Author Topic: Does someone know this automation Michael Voiland Expert Film Handler Posts: 219 From: Naperville, IL US Registered: Aug 2009 posted 09-01-2009 12:51 AM                     I have had the hardest time trying to find out what this automation system is. Its unlabeled and doesn't contain any visible writing on the PCB that I can see. This is the control panel. This is the projector  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2009 09:14 AM                     I've seen a couple like that on equipment that was pulled and I do remember they were custom built for the particuluar chain they went into. Sorry I do not remember who built those... Mark  |  IP: Logged Michael Voiland Expert Film Handler Posts: 219 From: Naperville, IL US Registered: Aug 2009 posted 09-01-2009 12:19 PM                     Could it have been general cinemas?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2009 12:39 PM                        Unlikely, unless they bought the theatre from someone else--every GCC that I have seen used Kelmar or Xetron automations. The older ones apparently had Cinemation units. Also, they wouldn't have had Simplex projectors in one of their own builds; older GCCs have (had) Centurys and newer ones have (had) Cinemecannicas. The one in the picture looks almost home-made.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-01-2009 01:08 PM                       Looks like something Kerasotes used.  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 09-02-2009 08:00 PM                     looks like something the NY office of the old UA circuit turned out.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-03-2009 11:14 AM                     Tim, all of the older Kerasotes that I serviced had Raven wall mount units. These don't look like them, but I never saw a console mounted unit of theirs. I forget the guy's name who still services them. Looks like it could possibly be a Hi-Tech unit. I don't think they had that many manual switches on them, but it could be custom. Rick  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-03-2009 01:01 PM                     It was definately not Hi tech. The UA thing somewhat rings a bell though... You might ask Ben Kehe at Motion Picture Projection Service in Tulsa if he has seen it. He worked for UA for many years. Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-03-2009 05:54 PM                       Richard, you're in IN now? Who are you working for these days? I think Al Biers is working for Kerasotes, with Fred Walraven. Al checks in here sometimes.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-03-2009 08:25 PM                     post a pix of the circuit boards that might help  |  IP: Logged Marty Carr Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Greenfield, IN, USA Registered: May 2009 posted 09-03-2009 09:41 PM                     Nothing I have seen in a Kerasotes Theatre.  |  IP: Logged Al Biers Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Speedway, Indiana USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 09-04-2009 06:35 PM                     Have never seen this automation but wonder if the theatre is around the Chicago area if the Smiley's could have made it.  |  IP: Logged

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