Motion picture handbook; a guide for managers and operators of motion picture theatres ([c1916])

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FOR MANAGERS AND OPERATORS 611 of the operator, the city suddenly jumps up into the air a couple of feet and settles back with a slam! When using a double carrier be very careful in removing and inserting slides. This, like many other things, is very easy of accomplishment if you know how. There is a right and a wrong way to do everything, even the putting in and taking out of slides. With the thumb and forefinger, grasp the slide by the upper corner nearest to you. Insert its lower edge gently into the carrier, and, as it drops down, catch it with the large finger of the same hand, holding the finger against the slide and the bar of the carrier, which will allow you to ease it down carefully into position without in the least jarring the carrier. The method of doing this is illustrated in Fig. 296. This has the additional advantage that in removing and inserting slides you don't get your fingers smeared all over their surface. The finger only touches the slide on the surface which is covered by the mat, hence if you learn to handle your slides this way there will be no fingermarks to show on the screen. In Fig. 295 we see a picture of the mat side of an advertising slide. In the lower left-hand corner you will observe a black mark. This mark should be present in one corner or the other of all slides. It is designed to enable the operator to get his slides piled up and in the carrier correctly. In this instance the mat side of the slide is shown, which would go next to the light, and the mark, being on the lower left-hand corner, would be in the upper corner next to the operator as he puts the slides into the carrier. This mark may be a round dot, a star or a small paper label. The point is that it should always be in the same corner of all slides of any one set, so that in laying your slides out for use you merely pile them mat side up with the mark of all slides in the same relative position. Caution: This cannot always be absolutely depended on, and should be checked up by the operator after piling the slides, since occasionally an error is made by the girls who bind the slides up, and one of the marks may be in the wrong corner. There is absolutely no excuse whatever for an operator getting a slide in the carrier wrong side up. Such a thing can only be the result of rank carelessness or inexperience. When running song slides the operator who knows his business proceeds as follows: On receipt of a set of song slides, he first cleans them thoroughly. He then lays them in order, mat side down, beginning with the title