Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

On Sat, 18 May 2024 20:52:40 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 15/05/2024 17:52, Paul S Person wrote:

On 15 May 2024 00:16:41 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
 

Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

>
There are two, and "wet spot" as the cause is
incredibly unlikely given the temperature
of the arc.  They're solid carbon (think old
carbon battery electrode) rods coated in copper.

>
When carbons are kept in the damp, they get absorb moisture... and then they
shatter when they get hot.  A competent projectionist can swap it out in
a matter of seconds without even stopping the film.

 
Not where we were. The story we were told was that they didn't have
that many, so they had to use what they had and do the best they
could.
 
We did eventually get a new! Base Theater. For its inaugural film it
showed /The Hindenberg/ (judging from IMDb, this as a pre-release
version shown to the troops to see how it went down).
 
It was anamorphic widescreen. The projectionist forgot to use the
right lens. The Base Commander was in the audience. He was not happy.

>
To be very picky, it's _The Hindenburg_ (1975).
Or _Th Hndbrg_ is what you saw, I suppose.
Someone has made Wikipedia call it "highly
speculative", but it's based on a true airship.
The rest?  I guess maybe.

Thanks for catching the typo.

The effect of not using the right lens is to make everything (and
everyone) look /very very tall and very very thin/. We saw the title
all right, it just look ... squeezed.

The correct lens was applied once the error was noticed. This didn't
help the Base Commander's mood.

Something similar happened with a film I say decades later.
 
But the /wierdest/ problem I ever saw -- or, rather, didn't see -- was
when the soundtrack played but there was no picture. Of course, since
this was an "art film", it seemed perfectly possible that that was the
intended experience. When caught, we heard the film being rewound and
then it started again.

>
Derek Jarman's _Blue_?  :-)
>
A blank blue screen throughout.  The narrative
is mostly about being gay in London, and getting
AIDS, so you may have not seen it at the
Base Theater.

No, this was later, in a 10-plex that later became a Sundance theater
and then was sold. (Sundance installed large seats with cupholders,
introduced reserved -- ie, assigned -- seating, and obtained a liquor
license so you had to be 21 to see a PG-13 film. Wierd.) It is,
however, nice to know that my suspicion that the blank screen was
intentional was not entirely unrealistic.

The film I was referring to was about Mexicans being hired to
manipulate what RAH called "Waldoes" across the border in USA
construction sites. At last, Mexican labor without the Mexican! The
plot was about the monetization of water by a Greedy Corporation (one
of D's heroes, no doubt) who sequestered all the water available to
the protagonist's home town, held the town up for ransom, and starting
killing whoever resisted. The ending was pretty much what you would
expect.

ObSF: when _Star Trek III_ starts out tiny and
monochrome.

IIRC, /Windjammer/ started out small as well.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"