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Anonymous said...I have never seen motion picture film burn but I did learn some interesting things in the projection booth at the MarVa Theatre. Dawson Clarke hired the late Ford "Chipper" Hitchens as projectionist and on occasional Saturdays I would join Chipper in the booth. I had no idea of the details involved in movies at that time.
I learned that movies came on usually four or five reels and they had to be changed manually and what signs the projectionist looked for to know when to switch projectors. I learned that movies arrived in Pocomoke City on the Trailways bus and Dawson Clarke picked then up at the station twice a week and had to return them after being shown. I also learned that Dawson would review and edit movies before they were shown. He had a film splicing machine and would simply cut out any parts that he considered racy or crude. Of course, he had to put the naughty parts back in before he returned the films to the distributor.
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I have never seen motion picture film burn but I did learn some interesting things in the projection booth at the MarVa Theatre. Dawson Clarke hired the late Ford "Chipper" Hitchens as projectionist and on occasional Saturdays I would join Chipper in the booth. I had no idea of the details involved in movies at that time.
ReplyDeleteI learned that movies came on usually four or five reels and they had to be changed manually and what signs the projectionist looked for to know when to switch projectors. I learned that movies arrived in Pocomoke City on the Trailways bus and Dawson Clarke picked then up at the station twice a week and had to return them after being shown. I also learned that Dawson would review and edit movies before they were shown. He had a film splicing machine and would simply cut out any parts that he considered racy or crude. Of course, he had to put the naughty parts back in before he returned the films to the distributor.