Carbon Arc Projectors
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Uploaded by JohnMGilbert on Jul 18, 2008
On with the show! Running carbon arc film projectors in Nauvoo,Il. This is the way films were run before the 1980's. Also visit http://columbusgeorgiaonline.com/drive_in_chapter1.htm
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Great Very!!!!! film projector like this!
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Hope you don't mind, but I added a link to your video as I'm selling a rebuilt brenkert on EBay
item number 190626402378
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Great video! When I was little I wanted to be a projectionist. It never came to pass but I'm still fascinated by projectors.
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I wish someday My dream come true to watch both or a single movie projector at work
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Wow thats excellent!!! thanks for sharing with us youngens.
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Hello John - I am a projektionist from 1973 Denmark - and I was at Sondrestrom airbase (Greenland) in the 80th - and the American soldiers cinema was operated exactly like you are showing in the video. I am having a hard time explaining to new projektionist how we did it in the old days. so many thanks. I am now operating a Kinoton digital projektor:-( It takes the fun out of the trade.
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@JohnMGilbert I still get metal reels occasionally from private archives. The worst are the ones that don't even bother with reels so you have to use a split reel to get them off the shipping cores onto house reels.
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I love the video. I just bought an old theatre that has the old projection room intact. the theatre auditorium burned down in 1981. The building is the old Paramount Theatre in Cheyenne Wyoming. it is a 4 story office building now. I would love to find someone that could tell me if the projectors can still function.
philwywy 2 months ago
@philwywy email me at jmg429@aol.com
JohnMGilbert 2 months ago
When you're running changeovers, you want the film tails out to check the que marks. If the que marks are missing, the film runs out and you're screwed.
JohnMGilbert 8 months ago
These are Brenkhert projectors.
JohnMGilbert 8 months ago
No, modern cinemas use one projector and a platter system. The Xenon lamp did away with the carbon rods and now there's no need for two machines.
JohnMGilbert 8 months ago
Nitrate film was highly flamable and there is still nothing made that will extinguish it. Inside the magazine (reel doors) was a pair of rollers called "valves." The idea was that if the film caught fire, the valves would pinch the film as it burned past them, much like putting out birthday candles by pinching the flame with your fingers. It seldom worked and many theaters burned.
JohnMGilbert 9 months ago