Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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.

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