Mike Taylor cinema projectionist and Peter Grant Journalist

[@benjijack22]

Great video of my life long pal Mike Taylor ex Projectionist from the Paramount/ODEON London Rd Liverpool in the Projection Room at Birkehead Town Hall in conversation with Mr Peter Grant. Mike looks after and maintains the equipment here which is on permanent loan from the Projected Picture Trust - PPT Northwest - Keep up the good work Mike!

[@bobcorrin5886]

24 FPS are the best. Immaculate booth !! Ran the same Century 11 s with Strong 135s yeas ago. 1970s. Great vid Cheers

[@stuffnva]

I noticed he had to re-frame in the gate. That would mean he didn't set set the intermittent before threading up.

[@sisu6310]

would have been shot for placing a spool of film onto rewind bench without backing plate,sorry,but thats shoddy.

[@davisneil]

Plus there’s a split spool sat right there. Could be run straight from that no winding

[@stephenbeddow7226]

Needs to be quicker than that lacing the film into the projector,lol

[@bestpeter78]

I was doing that

[@danastutzman34]

...anyone else think he's running tight loops?...

[@Ampex196]

Personally, I prefer 'tight' loops - I hate to see film loops flapping around not least with out of sync. audio. Everyone has their own way of working. With Westar 2001s' I'd tend to close the intermittent shoe (at the end of pulldown) centred in rack first. The wide opening pad rollers are designed to determine the correct loop lengths.

[@bruceanderton1518]

What a wobbly video: made me quite dizzy! For goodness sake, hold the camera steady.

[@MANTLEBERG]

Sounds like a shredder...it aint right.

[@Ampex196]

It's a Westar and it's a quiet example. They were never very gentle with film at the best of times but served their intended purpose in many cinemas across the country. At TC we regularly ran a privately owned subtitled triacetate print of 'The Singing Ringing Tree'. We could nurse it through our Philips DP75s' though it was in such brittle condition there would be no possibility of running on the Westars. We had superb quality lenses for showing true 1.33.1 and it looked great.

[@MichaelBeeny]

What ever ratio was that screen? Hate those projectors, noisy. Give me a Kinoton any day.

[@perhauberg7385]

"Tricks and trade" must be local version. Pretty painful.

[@theprisonernumbersix996]

Very interesting but very badly filmed! That's a shame . It would have been wise to film the ignition of the lantern instead of remaining frozen on the curtain of the screen .....

[@MoonWalkersbin]

deinterlace the video please!