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Projectionist POV as he threads and runs a 70mm IMAX film.
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Projectionist POV as he threads and runs a 70mm IMAX film.
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I don’t really know what I’m watching but is it normal to put your hands and finger prints all over the actual film? Wouldn’t that smudge it up?
The Oppenheimer one is 3 hours and 9 minutes long and spans over 11 miles if you completely unrolled the film
Fascinating tech, love it
Gas powered projector. Sweet.
this was incredible to watch. I wonder how long until it goes digital?
Very cool video, thanks for sharing it.
Recently just saw imax and it was guardians of the Galaxy and I was very disappointed with the film quality. It looked blurry most of the time.
Stories tall and school busses wide, glad to see they are not only preserving film movie experience but moron-friendly measuring systems.
One of my favorite memories was watching my brother setting up for Return of the King. I felt like I was part of a memory I wouldn’t forget. I remember every detail. Something magical about theaters.
Can some one explain why there are so many small spools and snaking? I feel like you can remove a few of them in between.
Just like my college days as projectionist with the film group using a 16 mm projector. A bit more complicated, though.
Interesting!
What is the purpose of all the zigzagging near the spools?
“Yeah so, that’s pretty much the gist of it. Not much to it. We pay $9.25 an hour and you’ll unfortunately have to be by yourself the next 3 days as Crystal is out with the flu. Alright! Text me with any questions except after 5! OK! Remember! We’re a family!”
Why no gloves? Seems odd to not were them when you are handling film stock so much.
I love how you physically touch everything to make sure you’re not skipping anything.
>over 30 years old
My dumbass had the actual thought “Wow! They’re still using the original equipment from the ’70s?”
I used to do this job! We had 9 theatres at my cinema, each projector with it’s own idiosyncrasies, all starting within 15 minutes of each other. Never did IMAX, though. I loved working there.
Thread em all up, fire off all the movies one by one, watch whichever movie I wanted, free popcorn, then do it all over again after the credits roll.
Man, this is wild. In the early-mid 2000s, I worked in a two screen indie theater was beaten to shit. We screened the reels for employees before showing them to the public. Sometimes my job was to go into the booth and spin the platters manually to make sure the film didn’t get a ‘brain wrap’
Man, this makes me nostalgic for my time as a projectionist over 18 years ago!
It was never THIS complex, but threading a film projector was so second-nature by the end of my time there, and it was always a blast building the reels of trailer, and building the complete film. Once they brought in digital projectors, it lessened the magic, so I eventually left the theater, but I’ll always have great memories of my time in the proverbial ‘attic’! 😅😅
We had 18 screens and would often run them solo most nights, and my dumbass would work doubles because I thought it would look good to management
I’m curious why there is a transparent screen between the projector and the window of the projection booth at 8:22. Like is it doing something for the image projected on the big screen or is just so the projectionist can see the image without looking into the theater?
I went to photography school when digital didn’t exist. Seeing this projectionist touching the film without gloves makes me cringe. All the oils and other crap on our hands just ruin film, how is he just handling these reels with his fingers and not degrading the film stock?
“Keeping film alive in 2019”
There was like 1 person in that audience.
There was an Imax theatre in Spokane in 1974 with, they said, a screen five stories high. I wonder how that operation compared to this in complexity and difficulty, considering the technology back then.
Looks like he’s got his work cut out for him! Hope he brought some extra popcorn.
Looks like he’s got his work cut out for him! Hope he brought some extra popcorn.
Looks like he’s got his work cut out for him! Hope he brought some extra popcorn.
Looks like he’s got his work cut out for him! Hope he brought some extra popcorn.