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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 20:52:40 +0100
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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.