+92 You have no clue how the projectors at a movie theatre work, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I used to be a projectionist.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And you're not even going to explain to us how it works? frown

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sorry. Was on mobile. Now that I'm using Fedora as God intended, here's how it "works": The projector has a "tree." This tree has three platters, a brain, and a bunch of rollers to orient the film properly. The first thing you do is put the film through the brain. This regulates how fast the film gets fed into the head (I'll explain that later.) Next, you put it through the rollers to orient it properly. Then, it goes through the head, which runs the film and shoots light so that the audience can see it. On the head, there are some knobs to adjust the focus and sound. Sometimes, you thread it wrong, which snaps the film. In that case, we splice it together, which is just a fancy way of saying that we tape that shit up. Things go really bad whenever you scratch it up because we can't tape it back up.

by Anonymous 12 years ago