Projection Room 35mm Journey : The Sequel

The sequel to Projection Room 35mm Journey...wait for the boffo ending!

I really don't like moving prints. They're heavy and not always tightly wound. A few rollers here and there and some decent platters and you can do anything...well, almost anything. It's a 220 second travel from the time the print leaves the plate in the outgoing cinema until it hits the plate in the incoming cinema...through the floor.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Projection
• 35mm
• platter
• kinoton
• film
• guard
• filmguard
• cinema

[DSM1G90]

Right at first, I too thought it was an interlock since I saw the one accumulator (which is amazing, for one would think that with that much travel, there'd be two accumulators) on the wall. But, after noticing, it's just a print move setup as noted. Is any of the accumulators used, or just the rewind from that Kinoton platter keeping the film taught? .... and in that other booth, you can just catch the NEC digital with Real D's XL polarizer unit on front of it.

[WestlineDI]

It's just the platter take-up. The tension is adjusted to make it slightly more effective at doing this job.

[WestlineDI]

@DSM1G90 No accumulators for the print move..only for an interlock.

[fangeo]

ROFL Ok so you must REEEEEEEALLY hate moving prints!! Though sure, I get it with the multiple levels ;) Surely it must take MUCH longer to lace that up than it would to shift it though ;)

[WestlineDI]

Not so much longer, besides, time's not the issue. I don't have to carry 2 1/2 hours (or more) of Transformers or the like ever again. Works like a charm.

[GalaxyCinemas]

@PigeonPair The leader just goes down the tube with gravity then you need to go pull the rest through from the other side. When going up the tube the other way, enough leader must be pushed through to leave some weight outside or the film will just slide back down the hole. You then go up and pull the rest through. Works a treat.

[PigeonPair]

How do you thread thru the floor? Put a weight on the end of the film and roll it thru?

[dhampex]

WHATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GoMetricToday]

This is just amazing. Interlocking projectors is hard enough. You are right about moving prints. When the Grind House movies came out. I had to interlock 2 projectors together. But then after a week, my manager said I needed to move it to #11. That was the cinema we put prints when they lost their popularity. Imagine moving that beast. It came about 1 cm from the end of the platter.

[DSM1G90]

Sadly, with a booth full of STRONG platters, this is an impossibility of a process - just the way the platters operate. Thus, it's definitely a hands on print move.