Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 20:52:40 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <64M0O.89975$TyYf.65665@fx15.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 21:52:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fd85c9e24192d329e6d4262f6cdead8b"; logging-data="3095394"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19gx4+WHIiuGALqHLcNL871jMNfYoOSyG0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:y/4ziZ62XqDq7iFFybIUfZuk3GU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 3136 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 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.