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> It was even possible to cross-thread one film through multiple projectors to show multiple rooms from one stock, though I never had to do that. omg, I always
by teeray 4y ago
> It was even possible to cross-thread one film through multiple projectors to show multiple rooms from one stock, though I never had to do that.
omg, I always just assumed those mega blockbusters with parallel showings were always just two reels and two projectors. That’s brilliant.
- paulmd 4y agoI wonder if some of these might not always have been "officially licensed" by the studios... afaik studios did licensing by the reel.
- mthursday 4y agoI think it was called "interlinking" and was, at least eventually, official enough to be carried over into the first wave of digital cinema contracts.
- jackvalentine 4y agoIt was called interlocking. At my cinema we could do 4x screens with one print. The leader had to be so bloody long to make it to all the projectors and it was a very risky proposition for things going wrong so we only ever commercially ran 2x screens interlocked. But I did the 4x setup once after hours just to see it in action.