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Those old machines look great. I remember the last time I went to the drive in. I was looking in the door of the projection booth during interval and got invited in. Spent the rest of the evening in the booth learning all about arc lamps and projectors.
When I was doing nasho I got the job of squadron projectionist because I had operated the projector at school. It had some good lurks for getting out of obnoxious tasks. I used to run the cinema at Amberley every second weekend with two 16 mm projectors. The normal operation of the cinima was week days only. Quickly learnt how to get the loop back with a pencil before the cat calls started and how to start the second projector on cue!
Barry
PS when I was working for the navy we "acquired" a 16mm projector in or section and we needed films. We found we had access to the defence film library with a top level clearance. We borrowed all the secret films of the atomic. experiments at Maralinga. Interesting viewing but we could not tell anyone what we were seeing.
BG
Last edited by Barrykgerdes; 07-03-2011 at 09:06 PM.
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