05-17-15 07:03 TOM WALKER wrote to HOLGER GRANHOLM about Re: film camera

 TW> {at}MSGID: 
Howdy! Tom,
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 HG>I've never been a cinema machinist (projectionist) so I don't know any
 HG>details about the projectors but I can thread the film into it, hi.

 TW> As a side note the old 35MM movie house projectors are about
 TW> all gone. In fact the movie studios now distributes their
 TW> features in 35MM. They are distributed in a Digital format and
 TW> the projectionist is basiclly a computer operator.
 TW> Some get their features over a highspeed internet connection
 TW> and others use a Satellite Antenna

Thanks for the Info.

From my limited experience with Microwave Radio where I worked, I hope
the Satellite frequency they are using is below 10GC/Sec.

When the Microwave System that had a parabolic (dish) antenna that was
around 40 inches in diameter was replaced with higher frequency gear
that had a antenna about 10 inches in diameter, every time it rained
the system wouldn't work and someone would have to go to the remote
site.

I learned they quit using a Microwave Radio System and used Fiber Optic
cable now.

Maybe ten years or more ago I visited a Projection Booth and saw the
Reel the Film was on wasn't on top of the projector.

The Reels were bigger, 4 foot in diameter I think, and the whole movie
was on that one reel and after it ran through the projector it was
wound up on a empty reel the same size.

The other projector had the Previews for other films that would be
coming to the theater soon, and of course the Cartoon.
73

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