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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/30/05 02:55
In article <1130581046.845191.308000@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Ed Stasiak <estasiak@att.net> wrote:
>> John Harkness wrote
>>
>> By the way, when you're in a theatre and the print's "a little
>> blurry", try complaining. They may send someone up to the booth
>> to adjust the focus.
>
>Will the manager then re-wind the movie, so you can
>see the parts you missed when you were tracking him
>down and complaining about the blurry/dark picture,
>garbled sound, broken chairs, screaming kids, idiots
>with cell phones, ect, ect, ect?....
They rewind them now.
I had been called in to look at the sound system in a local
room - that was part of a museum/show complex. That was about 20
years ago. I haven't been in a booth since then.
They had horrible underpowered system and I arranged for that to be
changed - all for the better. The sound system looked like it had
been designed/selected by some home audio person - with low
efficiency speakers and low powered amps.
But the projector ran the film from a huge flat platter that as I
recall pulled the film from the inside and then wound it back on
the outside. A huge continous loop.
Last time I was in a booth -
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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