Just curious...

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We got it about 6 hours before our midnight show! This could have been disastrous since we didn't get to screen the assembled print prior to the public!
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Something is wrong here.....I never heard of anyone taking 6 hours to assemble a print in my 35 years in a booth. That print should have taken maybe 2 hours maximum to assemble. What happened to the other 4 hours? Was it sitting in the janitor's closet? Or do you have a projectionist that is "riding the clock?"

Many times I didn't get a print until two hours before showtime. I always met my schedule under those circumstances, even in a 10-plex I operated. There was no damage done to the film upon assembly, either.

The rule we basically used is if the print arrived 1.5 hours proir to show time, we would tell the customers that we might be a few minutes late on the start of the movie, especially if it was a 7 or 8 reeler.

If, for some reason, we saw a late start totally screwing up the schedule, we would cancel the first show. Fortunately, we didn't have too many squeeze plays that caused us to cancel.

DLP?.....the program has to be loaded in real time. That in itself could take 6 hours, so I have been told. If true, and you got the disks two hours before showtime, you lost most of your shows for that day.

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Actually, preview-time is usually the only time i get to watch the whole movie straight through, so i'm eager to stay up late. What else am I going to do, sleep?! But i find that previews are more to catch lab errors than my errors. "Dropped DTS during all of reel 4" can't be seen at the bench.

That old table you have up there can do anything. I can always make a bigger top so you can set your Pepsi on it when you assemble your print.

BTW, how come I am always the last person to find out you have troubles with the equipment? I didn't think I was THAT grumpy!