Well done, it can be a lonely job but Projectionist have the best movie house memories ....just ask

Ms.Everett is the best.

Amazing and thanks ... just had one happen so was interesting to prepare for my task ahead lol

Watching this in 2022, when this celluloid reel film technology has been replaced with digital projectors. Nostalgic feeling.

thanks so much for posting a video documenting this sad occassion.....i would have loved to have been a projectionist as this art of a job has always fasinated me....the abandonment of 35mm and 70mm was a complete mistake because as far as im concerned the image from film is vastly superior to this shit digital image they give us on big screen nowadays. whoever decided to go digital fucked up big time.and put many skilled people out of work.

When I notice, how film distribution protects the films before illegal watching.... Many of the older surviving films would be lost forever, when every projectionist has returned every reel.

I never thought, that platters were also used for 70 mm

6:30 Platters with no need to rewind. At least you could make a loop and run this automatically through the projector.

5:44 could make sense to get money per walked mile.

Some theaters does the "no no", they shows the naked silver screen. Some fixed it by projecting some light effects onto it.

Did you do the transition to digital projection or are the movies available as physical film prints?

beautiful

That's the Willow Creek 12. Despite its conversion to digital and multiple phases of renovations including its more recent one from Emagine, it still retains some of the architectural details from when it was originally a Cineplex Odeon theatre in the early 90s.

🙏Super sir👍

it is interesting looking at this "modern" equipment where the whole film is on one gigantic, several hundred pounds of film, spinning table. When I was a kid, theaters still used multiple projectors and reels of film. I remember "star wars" being delivered to our local theater, the guy was carrying two gangs of 4 reels. A handle in each hand, connected to four, maybe 18" in diameter metal boxes maybe 6' thick each. Not sure if those 8 were the entire movie, or just what he could carry. Projectionist's probably had a schedule, but then had to watch for circles in the upper right corner of the film projection indicating so many seconds, and then a final mark when they had to turn on a projector and turn off the other to switch from one reel to the next. This method is still used in special presentation of classic movies for live performances. Back to the Future for example has a digital DVD for orchestras where red/green blocks appear to give conductors queues for performing the live soundtrack while the movie plays for the audience.

Excellent

That's just a new invention in light bulb technology. The bulb that you easily can hoover up when it's done.

Digital ripped my heart out. My grandfather was a union projectionist in Chicago. When I was 12 he officially started training me as his apprentice, but due to labor laws I couldn't get my union card until I was 15. As an adult I was Malco Theaters top projectionist in Memphis and was the head operator in every flagship theater they built. All of them had 70mm in multiple houses. I LOVED running film! Being a projectionist was everything I was, and still am. When digital replaced film they actually had us throw the film projectors from the 2nd story outside door into a construction dumpster. I cried the whole time. I feel dead inside now. Lost. I don't know who I am and I hate every job I have had since. I hope the projectionist in this video, Dave and every other projectionist can find the peace and happiness I can't find anymore. May the force be with you. OH! And don't ever go to a movie theater again for they are dead husks run by computers and greedy companies. Zombie Theaters inc. And WAKE UP PEOPLE, they traded image quality for money

most people dont even know what goes on behind the scenes at their local theater . thy just come to see the movie and that is profit. would love to have tour on the back house ops. thanks

I never liked the light quality of Xenon for film projection. They were a very poor compromise for so called 'long play' systems. A properly trimmed carbon arc will knock a short arc xenon into a cocked hat, but then you need skilled projectionists to operate them!

Not glass, Fused Quartz.

Proper Arm and body protection ? saw what an exploded lamp did to the inside of a digital cinema projector , lets just say some of the projectors optical path components where slightly rearranged into many non functional bits and pieces..

Theatre name?

Ever had a brain wrap so tight it snapped the film and was 2 reels thick? Ever had a print spin off the platter during show time?

If the background comment of 3 months for the duration the lamp was first installed that’s not far from spec not knowing other details of hours on the lamp. Its not unusual for budget theaters to push a lamp well beyond rated life “because they still work” and once the lamp structurally fails they blame it on “manufacturing defects.” Inexperienced an/or ignorant “projectionists” do so all the time to save their jobs.

you should check the power lines for xenon bulb terminal and the reason for explodes is over power etc which happen to me osram is best

Man I don’t think I was karate when ms. Everett was a 2nd degree

How many years does xenon lamp ?

So this was "regular" 70mm, not IMAX 15/17mm?

Nowadays cinemas don't even use screen masking it's ridiculous

I joined my Dad as a Trainee Projectionist at the Palace Cinema Lowestoft Suffolk UK, when I left school in 1963. At the time it had the two BTH projectors, sadly the cinema suffered a major fire in the late 60's and had to be demolished. At that time I had moved to the ABC Cinema also in Lowestoft, my Dad had moved to the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth Hertfordshire UK. The great thing that I picked up watching this video was how Presentation still plays a major part and that is just awesome. Thank you for the Behind the Scenes look. Kind Regards Stewart (Huddersfield West Yorkshire UK) 👌

This is great!

You can tell they're projectionists and not photographers

will film projectors survive after the onslaught of that digital projectors.. y film projectors are dying..? they should live on forever

Great video! Really brang back memories. I did projection for nine years. Unfortunately I have eye damage from the xenon bulbs to this day because the century projectors were missing some panels and I was exposed to excess light. :(

Osram is hit and miss. Thankfully we rock Ushio bulbs which are wonderful and never had a problem.

Those tips look like they were used way over the specified warranty period. I'm not surprised the lamp exploded.... it doesn't last forever.

Excellent, there is lot of history in this clip I started my career as projectionist with carbon lamp house and change over system then system progressed to Xenon lamps and long paly with tower and platter system....now its all Digital system poor projectionists are history

That's very similar to the booth I worked in for years. Your projectors were a bit more advanced than the ones we used at General Cinema back in the 90's, but they were similar. This video took me right back to those lonely, challenging booth days.

Too bad the Weinstein Co. didn't give the 70mm engagement of The Hateful 8 to Willow Creek or the Heights. I'm betting AMC Southdale's temporary installation and inexperienced staff will just trash it.

Nice to see that gloves are used. Gloves should always be used when handling film.

Surprised to see 70mm reels and film visible at 1:13 and 1:41. How many screens have (had?) 70mm capability there, and what feature was this, most likely? Multiplexes running film were lucky to have someone as dedicated and knowledgeable as Dave on staff. It made a big difference in quality of presentation.

what was the name of the music track?

I find it interesting that you're still using prints. I've heard claims that most theaters are utilizing satellite feeds nowadays. When I first started 30+ years ago, we were doing 20-minute reel change overs.

Entertaining narrative! I enjoyed the perspective of the popcorn being made, during the intro, and the background music as well...

What's the name of the background song?

70mm's Master

the last time i saw a 70mm movie was one about Mt. St. Helens at the now closed St Helens Dome theater in Castle Rock, Washington. It was a 70mm print of an IMAX documentary. It was awesome. I never went to see a 70mm feature length movie the majority of movies I've seen are 4k digital, 2k, reald 3d, imax digital 3d, imax digital 2d, imax dome,35mm dolby stereo sr, dolby 5.1, 6.1, sdds 8, sdds 5.1, dts es, dts 5.1, mono, and 16mm film in school.

Very interesting to watch. I often wondered what IMAX 70mm film looked like as its projected into theaters. Unfortunately, watching Interstellar at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco, Saturday evening, bits of dust kept popping up and getting stuck on screen, only to be whisked away 20 seconds later, but it looked like boogers on the actors faces. Enough to elicit chuckles from the capacity crowd. However, I've never experienced an IMAX film as loud and as fascinating as Interstellar (boogers or no boogers).

cool