Spencer ChristianoMay 11, 2022

Currently projecting: THE GODFATHER PART II (Francis Ford Coppola, US 1974). Print source: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA.

The leaders and can labels indicate that this is a show print (as opposed to a standard release print), which means it was likely struck specifically for this screening!

PRINT TECHNICAL INFO:

  • Format: #35mm
  • Stock: Kodak 2022, polyester
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85:1, hard matte
  • Analog audio format: Dual bilateral variable area mono, cyan dye
  • Digital audio format: None
  • Cues: Scribed
  • Lab: FotoKem

Actors pictured: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Francesca De Sapio, and Robert De Niro.

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈May 11, 2022
@172frames I just want you to know that I was a film projectionist back when that was a thing (officially licensed in Massachusetts! You had to pay $50 and take a test!) and your account warms my soul. 🥰
Show threadSpencer ChristianoMay 11, 2022
@andthisismrspeacock
Aww, thank you so much! 🥰 Fortunately for me, it's still a thing—just rarer these days. Did you project changeover or platter? If you have any stories, I'd love to hear them!
Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈May 11, 2022
@172frames Platters! I worked for Hoyts cinemas which was a fairly large (~150 locations, ~2000ish screens) multiplex chain in the northeast until they got bought by Regal in 2003 or so. Although they had many failings, they did take projection seriously and had top of the line modern equipment in almost all their locations.
Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈May 11, 2022
@172frames Still have nightmares about one of our other projectionists dropping a print of Titanic (long! stretching the limits of film clamps!) down a flight of stairs 20 minutes before we were supposed to show it...
Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈May 11, 2022
@172frames Oh! And there was the time I spent a day being detained by the FBI for questioning because someone stole a print of Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" out of our lobby before the FedEx guy picked it up.
Show threadSpencer ChristianoMay 12, 2022
@andthisismrspeacock
I remember Hoyts! I also remember platter clamps—I felt like I was tempting fate every time I used them. 😆
Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈May 12, 2022
@172frames this was us, I still have a copy of it somewhere in my attic
https://youtu.be/B5L8RpCKdSE
Hoyts policy trailer (1990s)

YouTube
Show threadSpencer Christiano
@andthisismrspeacock
I love this!!
May 12, 2022 at 3:36amWeb
Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈May 12, 2022
@172frames hearing this music to this day makes me think I should go close doors on a specific audotorium