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In Reply to: Re: no posted by Victor Khomenko on December 23, 2004 at 20:05:04:
The last time I went to a theater. It was LOTR, long before the intermission, the film went blank for quite a while, than started again. If that wasn't a reel change, than there was a major problem. For that I paid $8.50 a pop???
Lets face it folks, theaters are not what they used to be. They are smaller, less comfortable, there are fewer *good* seats, and in some cases the screans are smaller. I guess they make up for this by the ever increasing prices.
Jack
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Apparently some sort of a malfunction. Maybe a splice broke.Some theaters are actually pretty good, like the 16-screener here, but the problem is the whole building is one huge popcorn factory, with noisy teenagers and videogames everywhere, smell and comotion, the atmosphere certainly not conducive to viewing some good work.
Shame, as there are some really nice rooms there... as far as I recall... having visited it last time maybe five years ago.
> > > Maybe a splice broke < < <
Quite possible, though it shouldn't have been spliced in the first place for a new movie.I used to go to the theaters quite regularly. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, the atmosphere is not really conducive for serious viewing.
I don't want to bore everyone with technicalities, but here is how it works, to the best of my understanding.The films get delivered to the movie houses from a distributor on several 20 minutes reels - you all have seen those in their octogonal cans.
At the theater they are all spliced together into one piece, and put on a special carousel type device, so they could be shown in one shot, without changing reels.
When the theater is done with the movie, it is cut again into the 20 minute parts, each one packed in its own can and sent back to the distributor.
Perhaps Chris Garrett will clarify that for us, but this is what I was told by a projectionist who runs the "home theater" system for one well known billionaire whose name you would recognize instantly. That home theater installation (which I visited) included two real 35mm projectors in addition to your obligatory digital video one. So there a person actually does switch between the two projectors - he has a control panel for that near his window.
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