#IMAX 

This is the speed and precision of a guy who must've done this a million times.

Man, these escape rooms and their intricate puzzles are becoming more and more involved. Wow.

What my parents think I do when I restart the computer

I noticed he has the film weaving process tattooed to his arm, that's dedication

The youtube algorithm has ONCE again brought us back together to see some epic film projectors, thanks youtube, very cool!

That moment when you realize 30 years ago was the 90’s not the 70’s PS. I just did an approximation Calm down

These systems are freaking amazing. 70mm was the future. Digital may be more accessible but it's nowhere near as impressive. I tip my hat to the projectionist..

“Projectionist” still sounds like an amazing title to have

*Projector starts* *Slaps over the cover* This bad boy gives you an entire film in a single tank of gas!

Long live 70mm IMAX and it’s 18K native resolution.

I really appreciate that double and triple check at the end. That's how you do things right.

It's crazy how complicated these are when you think it's essentially just shining light through film.

Ahhh. RU-vid Recommendation doing it's job properly once again.

Man brings back memories I was an IMAX projectionist for years when I was much younger... I was there when we switch out to dual film projectors for one of the first IMAX 3D systems... where you had to do everything twice! Despite it being over 20 years ago watching you do it I realized I still remembered the process... I can still hear the guy's voice telling me during training "now run your hand over the complete film path to make sure everything is perfect... now do it again" granted can not remember his name!

It's sad how film projection has become a lost art. Thanks for keeping it alive.

Imperial serviceman prepares the death star for firing, colorized.

so this is what happens in the backstage during the movie show. If i could back in time in my life i would do this job

Thanks a lot for uploading this. I really loved that double-triple check.

Somewhere, Chris Nolan sheds a tear of joy

“The size of two large school busses end-to-end.” Yeah but you’re watching Superpower Dogs on it...

Your skill in operating the projector and double checking your work was as impressive as the projector itself :P

So funny story - I very briefly worked at this exact location, in this exact room (this was filmed before my tenure). Alas, the job wasn't for me, though my infinite respects to all projectionists out there who have to complete this very intricate process, and multiple times a day! They truly are unsung heroes, going through a time crunch that many people would not be able to bear. It's an absolute shame that this venue is tearing down the IMAX theater to only construct a lame 4D theater in its place.

When I went to see Dunkirk I had to drive 5 hours each way just to find an actual film IMAX. Can’t believe how rare these are now. Used to have one 15 min away.

I get tingles whenever I see that IMAX intro. Amazing, thanks for sharing!

"As tall as a six-story building and as wide as two school buses" Americans will really use anything to avoid the metric system

Absolutely beautiful! Gave me goose bumps to hear that projector get up to speed. Thank you for keeping film alive!

Imax projectors were built to the very highest standard. The fact that it still works after 30 years in hardly a surprise.

I was a regular movie theater projectionist and this footage just makes me smile, thank you so much for filming this!

I have a 16mm projector--and that's complicated enough as it is. I would hate to be the technician on duty when/if that 70 mm film ever became tangled, especially at the speed at which it travels. The cost alone to replace that film would be, I'm guessing, astronomical. My grandfather was a projectionist at a large (3000 seat) movie theater for many years. He dealt with 35 mm film. I watched him (and even helped once) as he'd load up a film. Getting it set correctly so it would properly overlap the end of the preceding reel and still look like it was totally continuous was indeed an experience. And those reels were huge--20 Minutes per reel--and they were HEAVY! Cleopatra, which I saw from the projection booth, took incredible endurance. Each reel needed to be properly prepped and tagged for proper sequence. And then it needed to be rewound and cleaned when it had completed its run so it would be ready for the next showing. This was in the day when films were run continuously throughout the day and patrons came and went whenever they felt like (quite unlike today's process of clearing --and cleaning--the theater between showings). Long gone are the days when one could see a particular film three times in a row without having to pay in between each time. Such a routine meant my grandfather had to rewind reels between reel changes, all the while keeping them in order. There were very few times he got to sit down just to catch his breath. He said the absolute worst mistake he had even made in the 20+ years he did the job was when he forgot to rewind one reel. He set it up and ran it as is--not realizing that in effect it ran in reverse AND upside down! The other things he told me that created problems were reels that kept skipping because of torn sprocket holes, thus making the sound track get off kilter with the visual. And he was paid $2 an hour for the job. That, to me, was dedication. Very few of those who attend film showings in theaters today have any clue to what it took to maintain the same screen presentation then as what we see when we pop a DVD or Blu-ray into our home theater players!

Lol, when he turns off the living room projector with the advertising screen and covers it before he turns on the big boy projector.

Woooow....now that's called dedication. Guys like you are the reason behind every goose bumps we get while watching movies. Amen

I remember being a kid growing up in the 90s and going to the drive in. There were three screens all being fed by film projectors in a small building in the middle of the lot and being managed by one guy sling film around. Whenever I got bored of the film, I'd go and watch the projectionist work. I really want to be a projectionist when I grew up, but by the time I was old enough to work, cinemas had pretty much gone digital. Ended up becoming a sound engineer, which is great, but there's still something that pulls at me a little bit when I see this.

That thing sounds like a lawn mower when you start it up

Greetings from the El Capitan theatre in Hollywood! And this is the reason why people need "Real" projectionist not automated systems.

*Teacher:* _I can't turn on the projector_ I just press a button. *What the teacher see:*

Years ago, i own with my family a Film Theatre, this take me back those days when i set up the movies, great job and amazing equipment!

15 hours later: still spinning film on his finger

It blows my mind when the machine starting the Movie. It looks so cool.

Mate I thought my OCD was bad but you take the cake !!! That process of preparation is so awesome to see thanks' for sharing.

I can't get over watching this video that at the end of the 8 minutes I sat in my chair with this huge smile and giggling like a little kid! This was just so terrific to see from start to finish...Loved watching your experienced hands threading all those rollers...and I thank you so much for sharing this!

This is awesome and I've always wanted to see how IMAX works. I run 35mm & 16mm film but the most unexpected small joy in this vid was when you dropped that piece of cardboard in front of your eiki projector. Manning "the cardboard" used to be part of my job as a trainee when I was starting out and I had forgotten all about that until this. So, double thanks for the cool film vid and the trip down memory lane.

I remember back from the 2000s,I went to the IMAX cinema with my family,the screen projector is like a size of a building and the speakers are freakin loud to my ears which is giving me a fright and that was a good memory.

Back in the 1980s I knew a girl whose brother was a projectionist at a regular 35mm cineplex, and I got to see the projection booth. Holy God! I had just graduated as a film student from Columbia College Chicago at the time and was absolutely floored when I saw the platter system, which had an entire 35mm feature on one giant platter similar to what is shown here. I was amazed at the intricacy and, on the other hand, the Rube Goldberg-like contraption of rollers that led the film across the room (once again, much like we see in this video). When watching your video, I was absolutely shocked to see how much more preparation and technical prowess is needed to show a 70mm IMAX print. I'm presuming today's IMAX features are all digitally projected with no sight-and-sound sync required. Two quick memories: Number One: I remember seeing two films actually shot in Omnimax and shown on the domed screen. Magnificent! I felt like I was there. I've also seen IMAX films incorrectly shown on the domed screen. That should be outlawed. They weren't to be shown that way and it just distorts the images. Number two: When it first came out, I saw T-REX: BACK TO THE CRETACEOUS in that 3-D IMAX process where you had to wear the LCD goggles with the little headphones close to your ears to hear close-up stuff. Man, that was one one of my best movie-going experiences. I remember the opening of the film, with shots of the expedition on the river (in the Grand Canyon as I recall), and thinking, "Oh yeah, this looks like pretty good 3-D, like every other 3-D film I've seen," and then the titles came on the screen and it looked like they were one foot away from my face. I have never seen better 3-D effects in a movie than in this process.

"Also patented in [...] USSR" That really drives home the age of this system. I grew up going to the OMNIMAX theatre at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. Saw a few Space Shuttle-themed films there during the 1980s. As part of a school trip one time they let us in the auditorium early so we could watch the film setup through the windows they had in the auditorium entrance. Normally, they didn't start loading the theatre until just before showtime so guests entering only saw the last steps including the lift moving the projector up into the dome lens. Naturally, they weren't about to let a bunch of 7th-graders into the projection room with equipment that expensive 😂 but the windows in the queue area were close enough that we got to see almost everything. One of the projection staff was outside the windows with us narrating and answering questions. Best school trip ever. Thanks for this trip down memory lane!

I agree totally Keep FILM alive.. There is nothing like the sweet sound of film treading through the projector ....behold the power of that Projector.. Beautiful job !! Thank you for showing this to everyone .. A projectionist is an art and a passion not just a job , We love what we do... IMAX is incredible.. I used to run projectors for Cineplex 35 MM and also ran 70 MM IMAX projectors here in Canada , it's my passion.... double check and Triple check to make sure everything is set perfectly .... We will keep Film Alive , Film will never die !! Appreciate that you recorded this my friend .. Thanks again :)

24 years ago, that was my job. I almost get tears in my eyes. At that time I was 16 years old and still went to school. The view from the hatch into the cinema room to adjust the sharpness was often a surprise. Kissing couples, cuddling pensioners, excited children who all enjoy the magic of cinema. Thanks for the video

We are still running IMAX 15/70mm projectors in our cinemas in Mersin, Turkey. (They are from year 1991)

There's something special about watching an IMAX film.

This is so ridiculously cool. I love the old processes of dealing with film. I had no idea some Imax's were still analog.

watching this just now simply blew my mind .... I had no idea about all this work that goes on to show an imax film ... this is amazing !!

WOW that was spectacular. Thank you so much for sharing!

Some things just cannot be beaten. IMAX is one of them.

Man this gave me such nostalgia, I used to work a movie theatre 10 years ago, and I loved threading movies through the projectors, putting films together, breaking them down, etc. Was sick

I used to be a 35mm projectionist about 15 years ago. Seeing this brings back memories! :D

I remember the first time I went to an Imax theater at the Ontario Science Center. It was 6th grade. The introduction of the Imax theater where it shows how the screen is perforated and the speakers are behind it blew me away. The laser show and the sound test were enough to make me love Imax. It was life changing.

Holy shit the amount of work required is mind boggling. That should be a full blown apprenticeship.

As a former 35mm projectionist I'm happy to see someone still using film in 2019, especially the marvelous 15/70 IMAX format. IMO the digital cinemas these days are great for everyone except the projectionists. All the fun is gone.

Seeing movies in this theater as a kid blew me away, particularly the films flying over landscapes that made you feel like you were in an airplane flying over mountains and oceans. An unforgettable moviegoing experience.

I am just glued to what you are doing. Thank you very much for sharing this.

From one projectionist to another. Wonderful. Fantastic insight.

*It sounded like someone was mowing the grass when you started that beast haha*

I was not prepared for the lawn mower starting up at the end. But it was a nice touch.

I've seen a handful of shows at this theater.. but i've never seen the booth. As an old 35mm projectionist myself, thanks for the upload!

IMAX theatre sound is so good I would have never guessed it's powered by a Briggs & Stratton 7:34

Literally i had goosebumps when the show started

6:02 turns out all of that other equipment didn’t even matter and that’s the whole projector

Brings back memories. I was a projectionist for Cinemark around 1999/2000

Wow, Well Done, Never thought there was such a complicated process just to setup a projector, looks like rocket science to me, but I think I will stick with my Eumig projector :)

IDK why but this video gives me ASMR for some reason, I think this stuff is pretty cool, like can you imagine 16k resolution on film, and we are here struggling to get 4k on flat screen TVs, I always get my mind blown when I go to my local IMAX movie theater, it is so freaking good.

I hope this level of care is taken when I go and see Oppenheimer in 1570!

7:31 This thing starts up like a steam engine then idles like a lawnmower

Wow that is more complicated than a pre-take-off-check on a jet.... Amazing!

IMPRESIVE!!!What a piece of machinery!

so cool - like being inside a giant cassette tape

this was amazingly interesting to watch, thank you for recording and uploading :D

Mannnn I teared a bit watching this. I threaded dark knight rises and interstellar on 70mm mannnnnn what a time. Miss those days. 😢

My first job was a Projectionist at Mann Theaters in Santa Clarita, Ca.... this brings back some crazy memories of sneaking friends in for early viewings LOL

Imax is so cool. Probably the pinnacle of human film.

I used to work in a movie theater (wasn't an IMAX). Loved seeing the old film projectors. Takes me back the threading the projectors.

And that’s how this video make me love watching films in imax

Thank you for posting this. I grew up in Norwalk and always loved this IMAX theater. It’s heartbreaking to see it being demolished now.

there are two original imax in germany with this, its really different to digital imax

So they use Marantz Processors in actual Theaters as well? Cool.

This is oddly satisfying. I listen to this while I study sometimes.

I'd give my right arm to see "Special Effects: Anything Can Happen" again! No idea why no one associated with it seems to want anyone to ever see it again. :/ Saw it at the OmniMax theater at the Ontario Science Center back in 199...4?, and, of course, never again. Kinda hard to even find information about it. Why?!

Basically, what happens inside a VHS Player

Brings back memories. I used to run an IMAX 3D GT system and 35mm at a large multiplex. Fun times! That job nearly (basically) doesn’t exist anymore.

ALways wanted to how this works! Verry Cool vid!

And still in some aspects, the IMAX 15/70mm analog film projection produces better picture quality than anything digital. IMAX 15/70mm was invented in 1973, but 46 years later we still don't have any other digital camera or digital projector that can match anywhere close to 220 million pixels (8K = 35 million, 16K would be 140 million)

WoW that is a lot of loops and lead film... I love the way it starts up with that chug sound.... Thank you for the demonstration of loading the film and everything that was very educational I remember back in the '70's-'80's my buddy out west parents owned a drive in and they had the old carbon arc projectors back then I was in the projector room a few times back then... I remember people telling me later that the carbon arc projectors were better than the bulb ones of today for there wide spectrum and just about as bright as the sun just looking through the dark green window to adjust the arc and the mirror behind the arc to reflect the light onto the film I remember Ted telling me that the mirror was close to $1,000. Back then... The IMAX system is very interesting set up in comparison to the drive in. ..

By any chance do you wear ear muffs because that machine sounds painful.

1:18 I bet the ladies love him....

The good old times without 30 minute advertising before the movie.

As someone who likes cinema, it was about time that i learn how IMAX works

I was in my early 20's when this was brand new

On a side note, this is specifically the 2D version.

Who else is watching this due to openhiemer

Well, I gotta tell you what, that was impressive! This guy knows his stuff.

Thanks for sharing this, man! I for myself am a huge IMAX fan, and have had the opportunity to witness Monterrey's very last IMAX film projector on the run. In Mexico. Is there a chance I can contact you? I'd like to see if I can purchase some old IMAX film cells your planetarium does not use anymore.

This brings back memories... We used basically the same projectors on our Back To The Future ride (Universal Studios), except the operator pedestal was mounted against the booth wall because the projector rolled forward "into the hole" about 8 feet. Installed in 1993. It was a 15 minute film that was fed from a loop cabinet. Each 15 minute print ran about $1,800. The 15KW lamps were around $6,000 each. I always loved the freight train sound of the projector coming up to speed. I haven't threaded one of those since 2007 when we closed it, but would probably pick it back up from muscle memory. I still have a chunk of the film, and people are still amazed when they see the frame size. I think I still have a few PTRs sitting around somewhere too...