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Information, Please!; Questions &, hopefully, answers!
Topic Started: Sep 10 2009, 05:06 PM (707 Views)
mort bakaprevski	Sep 10 2009, 05:06 PM Post #1
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,433 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	This past Monday, my lady friend & I finally went to see the latest POTTER. It was at a multiplex & we attended the late show. As the credits started to roll, she complained about ripping a button off of her coat. She whipped out a small flashlight & started to search for it. No luck!! After an interminable time, the MPAA code came on & I said the house lights would be coming up & they did... but not enough for the lady. Since I had been sitting there for over two hours sipping on a $4.00+ bottle of water, I excused myself for the restroom. She asked me to find someone who could turn up the houselights even higher. After taking care of business, I noticed that there was NO one in the lobby, ticket booth, concession stand or in the other theatres making up the complex. We were all alone. I informed the lady of this fact. She said, "What about the projectionist?" I opined that I didn't think theatres used projectionists anymore; that everything was run by computers. I buttressed my argument by reminding her that when anything goes wrong with a film these days, nothing happens until you go out to the lobby & tell someone about it. Now, truth be told, it was almost 1:00 AM & I just wanted to get home & hit the sack. S-o-o-o-o-o-o, here's my question: Was I correct about projectionists or was I just FOS again????
	“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”


mort bakaprevski	Sep 12 2009, 09:12 AM Post #2
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,433 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	Listen up, knuckleheads! On another site, Ken Hanke wrote an answer to my question above. Some interesting stuff. Here it is in its entirety: Anyway...there's still a projectionist in a way. First of all, not all theaters are digital and 35mm movies do not thread themselves (nor do they build themselves from 2000' reels onto platters that hold 20,000+ feet of movie -- HARRY POTTER would be 26,000 feet). Even digital movies have to be laid out (it's kind of a drag and drop system) and transferred into the individual projectors (like uploading a file). A lot of digital movies are supposed to start on their own, but you can't trust them. Now, the part about things not getting fixed until someone complains is pretty true, in large part because you can't watch 10-24 screens all the time and the projectionist is up in a long corridor (usually called "the mile") of projectors. Unless you're at the screen when it goes wrong, you're not gonna know. Then too, let's get serious about dedication to this -- because it's largely automated, theater chains don't pay projectionists much (it may be different in union states). How much do you really expect from an $8 to $9 an hour employee who is, in all probability, treated like crap by anyone on the corporate level? Exactly. So chances are your projectionist views the time when everything's running as pretty much free -- and 98% of the time, that's a safe assumption. The biggest flaw in the scenario Mort cites is that the only way to find the projectionist at that time of night is going to be to walk upstairs into the booth (assuming the door's not locked). The other flaw is that the house lights aren't on an endlessly variable reostat. They usually have three settings -- full, half-down and down. When the movie ends, they should go to full and it ain't getting any brighter than that, except by possibly turning on the cleaning lights, which aren't all that bright and usually take forever to come on. Edited by mort bakaprevski, Sep 12 2009, 09:13 AM.
	“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 15 2009, 05:37 AM Post #3
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Projectionist schectionist. Who cares about some punk kid gettin paid a low wage for texting? I wanna know: Did the lady find her button?
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


mort bakaprevski	Sep 15 2009, 06:23 AM Post #4
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,433 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	NO... but that just gave her something to complain about on the way home, So, the story had a happy ending (for her)!!
	“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”


Chandu	Sep 26 2009, 05:27 PM Post #5
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	Did the message board screen just go to what seems to be a 600 X 800 resolution for everybody, or is it just me?
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 27 2009, 02:52 AM Post #6
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Chandu Sep 26 2009, 05:27 PM Did the message board screen just go to what seems to be a 600 X 800 resolution for everybody, or is it just me? I think you hit the Really Big Font button at the bottom of the board. :-0
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Chandu	Sep 27 2009, 12:41 PM Post #7
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	Thanks, Stony. After a brief search I discovered the little magnifying glass at the bottom of the page and set the display back to where it was before. Funny I'd never noticed it there before.
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


Chandu	Sep 28 2009, 12:35 PM Post #8
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	Chandu Sep 27 2009, 12:41 PM Thanks, Stony. After a brief search I discovered the little magnifying glass at the bottom of the page and set the display back to where it was before. Funny I'd never noticed it there before. Nope that twarn't it! That made all my other websites too teeny. At 100% all the other places I visit display normally, but this board and Google display huge. I downloaed a new driver for my graphics card, but to no avail.
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 28 2009, 12:39 PM Post #9
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	It couldn't be at the bottom of your screen (See attachment) Attached to this post: Lookie_Chandu.jpg (101.26 KB)
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Chandu	Sep 28 2009, 04:35 PM Post #10
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	That's the adjustment I've been playin' with. At 75% this board and Google are about the way they used to appear, but all the other places I visit are teeny. At 100%, this place & Google are huge, however, everywhere else appears normal. It's drivin' me crazy!
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 28 2009, 05:18 PM Post #11
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Chandu Sep 28 2009, 04:35 PM It's drivin' me crazy! I bet that's a short drive! ;-0 I was expecting someone to ask how I has such a cool attachment, but NO!!
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Chandu	Sep 29 2009, 09:37 AM Post #12
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer Sep 28 2009, 05:18 PM Chandu Sep 28 2009, 04:35 PM It's drivin' me crazy! I bet that's a short drive! ;-0 I was expecting someone to ask how I has such a cool attachment, but NO!! I ain't goin' there!
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


mort bakaprevski	Oct 3 2009, 09:52 PM Post #13
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,433 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	What the hell is this bit about double guests??? Every now & then, when I go out to the "Active Users List" (Stony contends I spend the whole day there), I find duplicate guests. That is, two guests who seem to be signed on to the same topic... & they signed on at the same time. When the phenonom occurs, it's usually NOT just one pair, but multiples. WEIRD!!!
	“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Oct 3 2009, 11:54 PM Post #14
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	I've noticed it too and it is weird. Sometimes there will be more than 1 set of "twins", i've seen 3 or 4 sets at one time.
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Oct 6 2009, 03:10 AM Post #15
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	mort bakaprevski Oct 3 2009, 09:52 PM What the hell is this bit about double guests??? Every now & then, when I go out to the "Active Users List" (Stony contends I spend the whole day there), I find duplicate guests. That is, two guests who seem to be signed on to the same topic... & they signed on at the same time. When the phenonom occurs, it's usually NOT just one pair, but multiples. WEIRD!!! Yesterday I spotted triplets in the same thread. It might not seem like much of stretch to have 3 folks on the same thread, but a thread where the last post was Jan. 6, 2008? It can't be weirdness, it's gotta be a system glitch.
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


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