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In Reply to: RE: "Taking In the Big Picture" -- Fine article on 70mm in the Journal posted by clarkjohnsen on June 01, 2008 at 10:48:45
...they want escapism packaged conveniently. Going to the theater is a problem. They have to venture out from their abode, someone tall could sit in front of them or spill cola or pop corn all over them. I grew up in the era of CINERAMA and saw many 70mm presentations both projected in CINERAMA and other theaters in the late 60s and early 70. I must say I have never heard better cinema sound or experienced seeing a clearer cinema image. But those who crave such quality are rare. Most people don't care and the theater owners know this. I was a projectionist and worked my way through college in a theater booth working for the IATSE&MPMO. While there, numerous prints with mag track 4 channel stereo arrived at our theaters. I was commanded by the management to project these films with standard optical sound. Not even on Friday or Saturday night full houses. We had 5 amplifiers sitting there idle, a Century JJ2 70/35mm projector. They just don't care. Most of the theaters I worked in had nice stereo systems that were only used once in their lives. Ray Hughes
Little boxes on the hillside... Little boxes made of ticky tacky. Theres a red one and a green one and blue one and a yellow one... And the're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same... Malvina Reynolds (song from the 60s)
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...and a living legend: Baltimore's historic Senator Theater. It still seats 900!
Just saw "Iron Man" there, and a lovely prints of "Blade Runner" and "Laurence of Arabia" recently.
It takes character to hold to the "Golden Gauge".
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They thought if they used the mag tracks they would have to replace the heads after a full 2 weeks of run. They said if we don't advertise it in stereo we don't have to play it in stereo. So this nice stereo system sat idle. Also they were afraid of damaging the mag print and might have to pay for it.
Little boxes on the hillside... Little boxes made of ticky tacky. Theres a red one and a green one and blue one and a yellow one... And the're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same... Malvina Reynolds (song from the 60s)
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...the mag heads were in a penthouse above the lens and the optical head were below the lens. All prints had optical tracks as well as magnetic tracks. You just threaded the projector to bypass the mag head penthouse. Optical tracks seldom had a frequency response past 8K max and mono of course.
Little boxes on the hillside... Little boxes made of ticky tacky. Theres a red one and a green one and blue one and a yellow one... And the're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same... Malvina Reynolds (song from the 60s)
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