Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1948)

E-6 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 9, 1948 with STUB ROD CONTROL BOX Records what happens between box office and door — every minute, every tour, every day! Pays for itself in very short order! AUTOMATICKETtffe^pf^SYSTEMS Covered by U. S. Pan and Pots. Pend. For complete information write to: GENERAL REGISTER CORPORATION 36-20 Thirty-third Street. Long Island City I.N.Y. 01 THE AUTHORIZED SUPPir DEALER IN YOUR AREA. LLOYD H. BRIDGHAM— Owner, Uptown Theatre, Dover, N. H. . . . State Theatre, Presque Isle, Maine . . . Harbor Theatre, York Harbor, Maine — says: "Fifteen years of RCA Service • in my theatres has proved to be one of my best investments." To get the benefits of RCA Service —write: RCA SERVICE COMPANY, INC., Radio Corporation of America, Camden, N. J. ^ m ■■■■in ■ « » m 111 RIIMIKHMI^ * Efficiency Check List for * I Projectionists m i § ■ □ OCT. 11. — Check to assure that sound volume is still evenly distributed throughout auditorium. If it is not, check for weak or inoperative speaker units. □ OCT. 12. — Have you set up a regular schedule for inventory of projection room tools to make certain every tool is available that may be needed in emergency? □ OCT. 13.— If your theatre has a public address system, have you set up a regular schedule for inspecting it, testing its tubes and generally keeping it in perfect condition? □ OCT. 14. — Have you provided yourself with the universal type of patching cement that does an equally good job on standard nitrate prints and the new acetate prints? □ OCT. 15. — Have all members of the projection room staff informed and drilled themselves in EXACTLY what they will do in every kind of projection room emergency? □ OCT. 16. — Check back-screen speaker connections to make sure that all are tight and uncorroded ; check all back-screen speaker fuses for signs of over-heating. □ OCT. 17.— Time to blow dust out of all amplifiers, rectifiers, motors and generators? Use a bellows, or a vacuum cleaner with hose connected in reverse. □ OCT. 18. — If the projection room floor needs painting have it painted; don't let walking on it scuff abrasive and harmful concrete dust into your apparatus. □ OCT. 19.— Remove all tubes from their sockets, examine tube prongs and socket contacts for dirt, evidence of poor contact, or signs that there has been arcing. □ OCT. 20. — Have you had the emergency port shutter and cut-off switch controls located where you can work them if fire forces you out of the projection room? □ OCT. 21. — Make a thorough experimental test of the action of all port safety shutters for reliability and fast operation; adjust them as necessary. □ OCT. 22. — Make sure all oil cans and lubricating oil containers are kept tightly closed, to keep out water vapor that would rust parts on which oil is used. □ OCT. 23. — Have you checked the reflectivity of the screen lately? If it is badly sciled or yellowed, have you reported to that effect to the manager? □ OCT. 24. — Do your film cabinet doors still close tightly and perfectly? Don't delay any needed repairs; tolerate no conditions that are unsafe or unlawful. Cxcludive □ OCT. 25.— Are you compelled to play the monitor so loud it creates an apparent echo in the theatre? Have it moved to a location where you can hear it at low volume. □ OCT. 26. — Do you sometimes forget to inspect rectifiers or motor-generators located outside the projection room? Set up a regular inspection schedule for them. □ OCT. 27. — Do you keep careful records showing every repair and replacement made, as a check on the cost of maintaining each item of your equipment? □ OCT. 28.— Will all relief projectionists know every detail of their fire-fighting duties in YOUR theatre? Post full instructions for them on your bulletin board. □ OCT. 29. — When changes are made in projection room wiring do you always recommend oversize conduit and extra pairs to minimize the cost of the next change? □ OCT. 30. — Do you ever have to ; mutilate a print to make sure you won't miss a changeover? Simple and effective cue markers are available at very low cost.. □ OCT. 31. — If you have two amplifying channels, do you use them alternately to make sure each will always be ready for instant operation if the other fails? □ NOV. 1. — Operate non-synch equipment and check it for quality of sound, speed and steadiness of turntable rotation, and signs of wear. Lubricate as necessary. □ NOV. 2. — Try out the announcing microphone for quality and to prove the microphone circuit. Have you looked into the superior performance of recenttype mikes? □ NOV. 3. — Do you inspect all incoming prints before running them, keep careful record of the condition in which they are received, report defects promptly? □ NOV. 4. — Does someone periodically inspect and service the buzzer and phone to the floor and to the manager's office to keep them in perfect condition at all times? □ NOV. 5. — Do ceilings or walls painted in pale colors keep the projection room too bright for critical observation of the screen? Recommend re-painting. □ NOV. 6. — Will the projection room be adequately ventilated this winter? If better ventilation will be needed, now is the time to have it installed. □ NOV. 7. — Is the projection room bulletin board crowded with obsolete notices that hide the important ones? Clear it off; throw away dead junk; keep it up to date. Service 3 eat ur e CORN Si AMERICAN P0 1 SIOUX CIT POP CORN CO., CITY, IOWA