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- From: gswan@psych.toronto.edu (George Swan)
- Subject: Re: WARNING: a few good men : BAD PRINT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.204850.1583@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <DVANDERR.92Dec22140537@hen3ry.oracle.com> <BzpwBG.3Du@mach1.wlu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:48:50 GMT
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- To: eandersn@mach1.wlu.ca
- Subject: Re: WARNING: a few good men : BAD PRINT
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,oracle.corp.misc
- In-Reply-To: <BzpwBG.3Du@mach1.wlu.ca>
- References: <DVANDERR.92Dec22140537@hen3ry.oracle.com>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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- In article <BzpwBG.3Du@mach1.wlu.ca> eandersn@mach1.wlu.ca writes:
-
- After commenting on the availability of good prints for
- A few good men, and asking if the original poster asked
- for free tickets to see the film again, once the print was
- fixed, eandersn goes on to discuss focus problems.
-
- >even minor sync problems. Something else I hate is when the projectionist
- >can't quite get the picture in focus!
- >
-
- I see you are from Waterloo. I hate it when the picture isn't
- in focus too. It bugs me enough that I will sometime get up,
- hunt for the manager, and ask him to get the film focussed.
- After having done this four or five times, over a period of
- several years, I realized that every time had been in the "Waterloo"
- theatre, in downtown Waterloo, Ontario.
-
- Every time I asked them to focus the film, the projectionist
- clearly spent twenty or thirty seconds fiddlying with the
- focus, but really, it wasn't any more satisfactory after the
- fiddling than before. As I watched them fiddle with the focus
- on the last occasion, I cam to the conclusion that the combination
- of lense system, and screen in the Waterloo wasn't capable of having
- the entire screen in sharp focus. Instead it seemed capable of having
- only a broad ring in focus, as when the projectionist fiddled with
- the focus the diameter of the ring changed.
-
- I wonder how many theatres suffer from this problem?
-