The back wall of the booth was lit up with the projected image reflection from the clear glass in front of the lens. Was a very interesting time, and we always ran from the drive in's playground when the cartoons started. I remember the liquid fuelled heaters provided in the winter time to later be replaced with electric heaters.
to think purifier was the weakest furyan because most of them decided to die instead, I think this was his redemption from what would be considered shameful in his culture.
Sure, you show some 35mm movies, but, the majority of your titles are digitally projected. Migration, The Garfield Movie, Kung Fu Panda 4, If, The Bike Riders, The Boy and the Heron, Challengers, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga--the only way you can be screening these movie is digitally, so why do you attack other theatres for doing the same thing?
All repertory films here are played on 35mm - did you not notice that? You managed to check the website but missed the obvious? No kidding that now almost all new titles are released on DCP. Go watch bluray bullshit at the Revue.
Played by Linus Roache, William Roaches (Ken Barlow in Coronation Street) son. I wish we'd seen more of him in Riddick - he played it well. It would have been good to have another Furyan in the film series.
Purifier's sacrifice gave Riddick hope and courage, Purifier did this to push Riddick forward, to remove doubt in Riddick's heart, to do the right thing.
I don't' want to remember having that bell wake me up on the last feature getting close to 11PM and I need to get some sleep to work the next day. Century Projectors would run forever. We had Ashcroft light houses that had 2 huge 3-phase rectifiers to power the arc. And it was water cooled on the clamps holding the positive rod and a water feed went to the film gate to keep that cool. Slightly noisy machines. I have heard some pricey European projectors that are really quiet operating. I was familiar with electronics and had a Dynaco Preamp ahead of the power amp to give the audio a nice sound. And wired in one push button switch at each projector position that eliminated have to hit the petal on the floor for the movie transfer and button on the wall for the sound to switch projectors. One press of that button and it was complete. The ventilating system was broken from a fan belt worn out and the tile floor was black from the soot of the lamphouse. I fixed the fan and stripped the tile floor till it looked NEW. The manager was impressed and I got a little raise
I too ran the Peerless Magnarc lamps with Simplex XL projectors at The Mayan Theatre in Denver (before they made it a 3-plex) from 1973-1974. We had 2 rectifier units in another room (it cut down the noise), and a full bank of dimmer rheostats for the house and atmospheric lighting. I didn't have the opportunity to run Century projectors except in once in a while relief work. The Arvada Plaza theatre in Arvada, CO had Simplex XLs and Ashcraft Corelite lamps. My longest assignment was at the Esquire Theatre in Denver (still there, but turned into a twin). The Esquire had a pair of Simplex E-7 projectors. I didn't like them, but even after 50 years of use they ran fine. These were paired up with Strong Futura (?) carbon arc lamps. I don't remember that part. I was a member of IATSE Local 230 in Denver for 17 years. All these years later, I really miss those days.
Those E-7s leaked oil like there was no tomorrow. I never liked them, but they were workhorses. XLs were the best Simplexes, but my favourites, hands-down, were Cinemeccanica Vic-8s. Just amazing machines. I even worked on Vic-10s (they were bigger and heavier). Both the 8s and the 10s were 35/70. The 10s you could mis-thread and be 1.5 seconds out of sync. Ask me how I learned that factoid <grin>.
Isn't it obvious? He's strong enough to defy his master by helping Riddick but he wouldn't have enough strength to confront him directly This and dying on his own terms is the only way he can retain what remains of his own self to the end
