28 Mar
2014
28 Mar
'14
1:16 p.m.
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Jules Richardson wrote:
Did all theatres have two projectors? Or did smaller
theatres just have a
single projector and visitors had to suffer a slight delay between reel
changes? (Annoying, but I'm sure projectors weren't cheap!)
A real theatre, that charged admission, would have at least two
projectors. Movie audiences would NOT tolerate even a few seconds of
disruption of the film.
Even in high school, in mid-1960s, for auditorium 16mm screenings, we
would use two projectors.
In case of a film break, or in rare cases where there wasn't another
projector available, we learned to re-create the loop, and thread the
projector (NON-autoload Hell & Bowel "Filmosound" 500 series, or
occasionally ancient JANs) while the projector was running - not much
different from starting a new box of paper in a pin-feed printer without
letting it stop.
In order to make it more difficult to properly use the 500 series
Filmosounds, they had a non-standard socket for the audio out. Instead of
1/4", it was slightly smaller (maybe 6mm?) We, of course, made short
adapter cables.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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