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of the scope of this phase of the course. A typical performance check was as follows:
Screen
(1) Blank screen. (2) Dirty screen. (3) Jerky or bulging screen. (4) Defective masking of the screen. (5) Unsteady picture. (6) Poor definition. (7) Travel ghost. (8) Flicker. (9) Poor illumination.
(10) Misframing. (11) Faulty change-over. (12) Unnatural speed. (13) Distortion. (14) Dirty aperture. (15) Punch marks, rain, scratches, thumb-prints, warped film, oil spots. (16) Slides off line. (17) Cracked or smeared slides. (18) Poor slide change-over. (19) Noisy projector. (20) Flipper late or misplaced. (21) Sound track visible on screen. (22) Glare spots on screen. (23) Spread light on apron.
Sound {Mechanical)
(1) Fuzzy sound. (2) Flutter. (3) Ground noise. (4) Echo. (5) Improper musical introductions to sound shorts. (6) Needle noise. (7) Sound and picture out of synchronization. (8) Faulty synchronization change-over. (9) Volume too low or too high. (10) Jerky fader change, (n) Noisy moving of horns. (12) Horns moved into position too late. (13) Loose units in horns. (14) Failure to remedy " pockets " in "dead spots." (15) Improper framing of the transvox over silent screen. (16) Motor generator or fan noises.
Stage Mechanics
(1) Jerking curtains. (2) Fouling of drops. (3) Failure to mask battens. (4) Noisy sheaves. (5) Improper "live" or "dead trim." (6) Unsteady stage braces. (7) Improper off-stage masking. (8) Noisy traveler. (9) Noisy lowering of drops. (10) Off-stage noise.
(11) Ripped scenery. (12) Set off center line. (13) Platforms not rigid. (14) Improper storage of scenery. (15) Visible wires. (16) Borders not trimmed. (17) Failure of draw curtains to meet. (18) Failure to mask towers. (19) Too rapid or too slow lowering and raising of curtains and drops. (20) Dirty stage apron.
Pit — Orchestra
(1) Noisy entrance and exit. (2) Loud and discordant tuning. (3) Untimely elevator. (4) Lack of proper "elevator" music. (5) Wrong levels of elevator. (6) Orchestra out of tune. (7) Lack of uniformity in bowing of violins. (8) Wrong combination of instruments. (9) Ineffective speedometer signals. (10) Untidy music racks. (11) Talking in the pit. (12) Tardy cueing of newsreels clip. (13) Cueing to the newsreels improperly timed. (14) Poor arrangements. (15) Inefficient use of mutes. (16) Selections too lengthy. (17) Leader's showmanship. (18) Glare from instruments. (19) Traps and sound effects. (20) Overplaying voice or picture. (21) Defective grouping of musicians.