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      <![CDATA[i once sat thru the entire running time of Buffalo 66 with the print screened too low. the result: we could see the boom mics and the lighting, and everything else. i was just so fascinated and transfixed by the strangeness of it all, i didn't complain.
        
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      <![CDATA[I've been relatively lucky; I've only had the reverse of the Antonioni experience above: watching The Minus Man, it started out with everything very squat, and after a few minutes of it I decided it wasn't an effect.  And it wasn't.  I went to ask about it; the projectionist corrected something, and suddenly everyone was no longer in a funhouse mirror.
        
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      <![CDATA[I remember during a screening of David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive", the film broke in the projector. It was right during the mental collapse scene when Naomi Watts is fighting back visions of little people crawling under her door and the film builds to this nightmarish climax.. then... tear.. the reel breaks and the screen goes black. Interesting thing was, I was so into the film and believed in Lynch's horrific head trip, that I and the 5 other people in the theater sat there for about 3-4 minutes before we understood this was NOT the intention of the filmmaker. Leave it to Lynch to disturb and screw with the viewer so much that we get lost in reality!
        
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      <![CDATA[I've seen many projection mishaps over the years but the funniest, to me, was at a screening of "The Constant Gardener" with a friend who is a stickler for staying to watch the entire end credits of a film. About five seconds into the end credits the projectionist just shut the film off. My friend was outraged and complained loudly to the manager. We both got free tickets for a future screening, and a few other people lined up behind us to claim their free tickets too.
        
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      <![CDATA[I remember going to see a screening of LA Confidential at the University of Kansas in the Union and the boom mics were visible for a couple of scenes. It was really bizarre. And I've never seen anything like that again.
    
    Does anyone remember the old 400 Movie Theater - now the Village North - back in the day when you could almost count on the fact that something would go wrong every time? The reels were almost regularly put out of order there.
        
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      <![CDATA[Had a couple of interesting experiences along these lines...
    
    Checked out a rep screening of John Carpenter's THE FOG.  About ten minutes in, when the titular fog is creeping over the town and lights start flashing, things in town start going wrong....the theatre lost power, ending the film there.  I waited for about forty-five minutes, but the power remained resolutely out.
    
    Everyone I told the story to in the weeks after thought it was hilarious and appropriate.  Me, I just wanted to see the damn movie.
    
    Another time a screening of STOP MAKING SENSE switched reels 2 and 3.  Startling to those of us familiar with the film, going from the deliberate build of band onstage - David Byrne, then Tina Weymouth, then Chris Frantz, then Jerry Harrison, then HOLY CRAP it's the whole band doing "Making Flippy Floppy".
    
    My co-writer and I figured this would be an excellent festival idea - screen different films than those listed, but with appropriate thematic choices, so that your audience is revved up for a certain experience, and in a perfect frame of mind for a stylistic suckerpunch.  For example: list SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, screen Borzage's anti-war film NO GREATER GLORY.
        
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      <![CDATA[Worst experience I've ever had was actually at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater. The movie was "Two-Lane Blacktop" and I was totally into it. I watched the whole thing and right at the big climax, the film burned up. Gone. Anyone see it? Who won the race?
        
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      <![CDATA[Most appropriate projector snafu: The film breaking and melting at the climax of Memento, just after the b/w bleeds to color. Thankfully they were able to rethread, but boy was that a nail-biting 20 minutes.
    
    Worst: Having to wait for the multiplex goons to rethread the final reel of Hollow Man, which they had put in upside-down and backwards. By that point, it was clear the dreadful movie wasn't going to get any better, but I was obligated to stay even though I know it would take the better part of an hour to fix. Luckily when the same thing happened years later during Bewitched, I was free to walk out.
        
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      <![CDATA[I guess I, as an audience member, have been pretty lucky as I have never been shown the wrong movie or been shown a movie in the wrong order.  Anyway, the worst thing that happened to me was that one time I was with my Grandmother watching "Dances With Wolves" and suddenly in the middle of the movie, the screen went blank!  Apparently the projectionist was on break at the time, without thinking about having to change the reels.  The most annoying part, though, was the fact that the next reel wasn't started until the projectionist finished their break, which resulted in about a 10 or 15 minute &acirc;&#128;&#156;pause&acirc;&#128;&#157; in the movie.  I tell you, that resulted in some angry senior citizens!
        
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      <![CDATA[In my 2 years as a projectionist, luckily, I have never started anything wrong.  However, I have put on reels 3 and 4 of I, Robot in the wrong order.  I watched it with about 8 friends and none of us noticed.  I got a call the next day because they used my print for an employee screening saying that it was in the wrong order.  So that sucked.  However, one projectionist did start Freddy vs. Jason instead of Finding Nemo.  Needless to say, that was a fun little event.  Of course, there are plenty more stories, considering I'm a manager here now so I have to hear about it all.  On an interesting note, at the theater I just transferred from, someone started The Last Mimzy instead of Hills Have Eyes 2.  So kind of a vice versa, but kind of interesting considering some theater in New York seems to have similar bookings to us.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm a projectionist at a Regal Theatre. When Smokin' Aces came out I went to the second showing on the day it came out. When the third reel started I noticed a sound glitch and said immediately to my a co-projectionist who was watching the movie with me, "this movie out of sequence" and she was like "no it's fine"
    
    4th real starts and people are back alive and I was like, "No. Definately out fo order." The entire audience in the first showing didn't notice it, and the 4 managers who screened the print the night before hadn't noticed either. And it was an obvious mistake.
    
    On a side note, does this happen to anyone else...Something is wrong with the movie, and people's first reaction is to push in the portglass which then hits the floor and breaks...Anyone else get this or is it just the stupid people in Massachusetts?
        
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      <![CDATA[One of the weirdest experiences I ever had at the movies was seeing "Erin Brockovich" in the theater and finding the majority of the scenes had the boom mike hanging 3 feet above the actors heads. There were only about ten of us in the theater and we all started laughing and looking at each other to make sure we were all seeing the same thing. We went to the manager afterwards, more out of fascination than anything and he had the projectionist explain it had something to do with the height of the screen. Can that be true? No one I've spoken to since who saw it had that experience. It was incredibly bizarre. The boom mike was there in a good 80% of the movie, being moved between the actors by the unseen sound man as they spoke.
        
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      <![CDATA[It would be a fascinating experience to watch A Man Escaped in between reels of Chained Heat, from cinema to porno videos, in a sense, it'd be like watching many contemporary movies, which can't seem to figure out their own medium. Showing the reels out of order, now that's another story, one that could be very fun. Projectionists should have more fun, audiences hardly notice poorly aligned or out-of-focus shows, and still, the projectionist, who at least can tell the difference between a television show and a film, has to work very hard. It hardly seems worth it.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was playing some movie with Kurt Russell on two screens with the same print. It ran off one platter through projector #1, then along rollers on the wall through projector #2 then onto another platter. Took about 10 minutes to thread up. I somehow managed to thread one of them up with the soundtrack on the wrong side. Naturally it was discount night and both theatres were full.
    However, it's not always the projectionist's fault. One time I had the bulb die just as Tom Hanks' character was dying in Saving Private Ryan.
        
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      <![CDATA[Years ago in Boston I went to a college screening of Michaelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriski Point". As soon as the movie began, I noticed that everything was squeezed together horizontally, making everybody look tall and skinny.  Since I knew this was due to the wide-screen anamorphic print not being projected with the proper lens, I immediately went to the projectionist to complain.  His response:  "Sometimes Antonioni does interesting things with the camera."  "Yeah, right," I said, and got my money back and left.  I'm sure that everyone else in the auditorium stayed and watched the film in its distorted form.
        
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      <![CDATA[Most projectionists I know have started the wrong film on a split screen, but a lot of these posts highlight the value of screening everything before customers pay to see it.
        
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      <![CDATA[When I worked in the biz, I was always super-anal about making sure I was putting the reels together in the right order, etc., as many, many people are.  I also would use masking tape and black Sharpie to label the tail leader at the outside of the platter, and then I'd use white grease pencil to label it again, since the oil solution used for cleaning the projector heads would always end up making the masking tape come off.  Guy I worked with started Die Hard II once instead of whatever children's movie was scheduled for that time, and he was quite embarrassed, but fortunately, the parents brought their kids out en masse as soon as Bill Sadler's naked butt hit the screen.  Worst thing that actually happened to me, though, was the last two reels of Godfather III flying off the platter and making spaghetti on the floor of the booth.  We didn't have enough of the suction-cup blocker things to be able to space them tight enough, and that platter got to spinning just a wee bit too fast...
        
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      <![CDATA[Not really a projectionist error but, we were sent reels of a Korean film (without a single spoken word) called "The Isle" instead of the Micheal Bay schlockfest "The Island" It was a low budget arthouse masterpiece, more than half the theatre stayed engrossed until the end. arthouse
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh man, 2+ years in Projection, do I have stories. Too bad the worst of em involved me fixing them! I started Polar Express as usual. Too bad about 30 minutes later, I got a call up saying "you should be playing Blade 3". At least it wasn't the other way around, which I could've been fired for. All the blood-thristy teens looking back up at me. Good thing for that window hah! That, of course happened a week after starting "Christmas with the Cranks" instead of "Spanglish". Then proceeding to have to move Xmas without the trailers + almost all of reel 1 later in the night. That Christmas Eve was a fun night. Then there was the time I built the second half of the trailer ring upside down and out of frame. Luckily, I got to stay an hour and a half late til after the screening was done and I could salvage it!
        
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      <![CDATA[Imagine the fun of building "Grindhouse" which comes labeled reels 1-6 and reels 1-6. So, not only do you have to put on the right reels in the right order, but you have to make sure the CORRECT reel 2 follows reel 3. The theater I work as is very particular and we tend to keep mistakes to a minimum. We have had incidences where the wrong movie played but there was no audience to complain.
        
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      <![CDATA[I remember the time I put A Man Apart together out of order. I was rushing, because it was going to be shown for the first matinee and it had only come that morning. Luckily, only one guy came to see it, and he came out at the end and said "Your projectionist put the movie together our of order." He was very nice about it. Funny thing is my friend and I were watching it too - to make sure I had put it together right - and we somehow convinced ourselves that it made sense the way we saw it. Haha. It was one of my first builds and I was in high school at the time. Lesson learned! I was rather anal about reading the reel tags after that.
        
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      <![CDATA[forgot to mention when the reel was corrected, we still had to sit through all the trailers that come before Nanny Mcphee, so our movie started 45 minutes later than planned.
        
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      <![CDATA[I went to see " Nanny Mcphee " and couldnt imagine why the trailers before it were so graphic and all rated R, until the first shot of the movie was James Franco's naked back, with the words " Annaopolis " printed across it..
        
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      <![CDATA[EVEN BETTER was my double-feature that ended with me cutting off the end of my finger on a whirling shutter blade whilst changing aperture plates of our 16-35mm convertable Kinotons. Show ran fine -- audience just had to suffer through me walking through a crowded theatre with blood-a-drippin'.
    
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