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Originally Posted by maxhifi
Fair enough, but in a theatre where you plan to show each film only once, and then switch to another movie, setting up a platter would be very time consuming.
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It is much less time consuming with the platter system, even if showing a film only once.
Running the reels onto the platter takes about a half hour, teardown about the same. That's one-hour labor total to set up and teardown per movie. Then the projector is run automatically through the show after being started by the doorman/usher/manager (select one), so no one needs to be in the booth while a show is being run. There are multiple platters on the stacking unit so that you can have multiple movies set up and ready to show back-to-back. You can set up or teardown movies on platters even while running shows off different platters.
If you used separate projectors for reel switchovers you then need a dedicated person to be in the booth the entire length of the film, as well as an additional projector (not cheap). With the platter system you could have the doorman easily teardown one movie and get a new one on a platter while a show is running, so in fact NO extra labor hours were needed to run the projectors.
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