It was an exciting day. Not only did I get to spend it at the theater, but I got to learn how to thread the film through the projectors! Cory even let me thread one of the films myself (with her watching of course). I did pretty well for my first time. When I started the movie up, the picture was a little out of frame, but we fixed it easily with the turn of a knob.
It's really amazing how many pulleys and rolls the film threads through to go from one platter, to the projector, and back onto another platter. Up, down, up down, over, under, through, around, down, up, across....it's crazy! But when the movie begins and the film whirrs through all those pulleys, rolls and sprockets, it's amazing to see how that strip of picture imposed petroleum can produce such fluid movements and brilliant pictures played out on the big screen.
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