I’m still not entirely clear on the process that caused brainwraps. Ultimately, it was the platter not spinning fast enough to keep up with the rate the film wa

I’m still not entirely clear on the process that caused brainwraps. Ultimately, it was the platter not spinning fast enough to keep up with the rate the film was paying out, but I don’t know why the tension switch wouldn’t have had it keep up. Maybe a switch that required too much tension was constantly getting just a little behind? It was an interesting feedback mechanism to account for the need to constantly change the speed of the platter though. I also recall that some of our platters were a little warped and the movie could start to shift around the platter as it got to the end because you ended up with this large hollow ring of film. Particularly a problem on longer films. Assembling the films was always a fun end to the week. Every Thursday night, new films come in on 8 small reels by courier and you would assemble them onto 2 large reels, and then onto the destination platter. Then you get to watch it as a qa pass and see all of the new releases in your own private midnight showing. A nearby theater neglected to do this with the premier of Titanic and and ended up with the last half of the movie backwards and upside down on the first showing as I recall. Here’s a video of the platter system running for those having trouble picturing it: https://youtu.be/bETnkNYuFVg https://youtu.be/bETnkNYuFVg