Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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£-6 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 12 Years Best Buy — . Griggs' 3iO-line Chair! The neivest in the Griggs line of comfortable seating. It has the selfrising seat! The new luxury chair with auto niatic self-rising seat has long, stee back-plate which protects uphol stery both at top and back of seat Deep, luxurious 12 or 16 coi springs go into its fabrication Greater leg room is provided! A chair of comfort, economy and beauty. Call, W rite or Wiri>: GRIGGS EQUIPMENT COMPANY Manufacturers of fine Theatre Seating BELTON TEXAS Offices: Dallas, 2008 Jackson: Memphis, 410 S. Second; Skreveport, Box 213. Cedar Grove Station; Oklahoma City, 708 W. Grand, and Neiv York City, 1560 Broadway. Boost vouft POP COHi^ S^US FREE SAMPLE Use "Showmanship" in your pop corn business, too ! Dress up your pop corn in the nation's most colorful, most attractive cartons ever designed. Acclaimed by thousands of operators as dynamic sales booster. 'NJCorks like magic. Get FREE SAMPLE,^ low prices on all supplies for a moneymaking pop corn business. No obligation. Write today to HOWARD C. SMITH, President. AMERICAN POP CORN CO. SIOUX CITY 6, IOWA KEEP ABREAST OF THE TIMES Read SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Maitttenance Memos for Projectionists DECEMBER, 1949 Have you a regular program for listening to or otherwise checking each individual loudspeaker unit for its individual volume, qualify, and freedom from noisy operation? Time for another check on steadiness of power line voltage. Read it, every two hours during show time, report any variations greater than plus or minus 3 per cent. Are you keeping yourself in close touch with the latest developments of theatre television and its equipment? No one knows how soon you may be called on to operate it. How long since you checked your motor-generator for increase in vibration or noise? If either is growing worse have needed repairs made without expensive delay. Is it ever necessary for you to take carbon tetrachloride from a fire extinguisher for cleaning purposes? Order on extra supply; don't risk depleting the extinguisher. If your arc lamp reflectors are becoming badly enough pitted to need replacement soon, order new ones well in advance of actual need for them, so qualify of show won't suffer. Have you checked recently on the performance of new projection and sound apparatus? If your own is old and no longer in good shape, have you recommended timely replacements? Is vibration of either projector increasing? If so go over whole mechanism carefully to find the cause, and ask for the indicated repairs or replacements without delay. When changes are made in projection room wiring do you always recommend oversize wires or conduit and extra pairs, to minim'ze the cost of the next change? Do you have on hand sufficient supplies of every type of lubricating oil and grease you need? Don't let good equipment suffer through your failure to place orders in time. If you are not allowed advance time for proper inspection and repair of all prints beTore running them, ask for it and explain why it is vital to safety. Does someone periodically check the buzzer and phone to the floor and to the manager's office to keep them in perfect working order? If not, why don't you? Is maintenance of the theatre's public address system a part of your responsibility? If so, have you set up a regular, periodic schedule for doing this work? How long since lamphouse exhaust flues were last cleaned out? Partially clogged exhausts will increase the concentration of dangerous fumes in the projection room oir. How long since projection room ventilating ducts were cleaned out? Make sure they are not partially clogged — protect your one and only pair of lungs. Court plaster can be used to tag wires when making repairs. Cut it into small squores and stick one on each wire. Write information on the back of each square. Have you checked over your 1949 records and report forms looking for ways to improve operation, maintenance and efficiency in 1950? If not, why not? Do you feel that you want to introduce any new record or report forms for use during 1950? If so, have them sent to the printer now so they will be ready in time. Do you feel that you want to suggest to your manager or company any new, improved operating practices to be followed in 1950? Do it now, when other plans are also being made. Time for year-end inventory of projection room equipment, supplies, spare parts, printed forms, tools. Order whatever is found needed to start new year fair and square. Spare parts, supplies, service may not be too easy to get during coming holiday week-ends. Have you everything you need for insurance against possible breakdown? Have projection ventilating arrangements proved adequate during cold weather thus far? If not, ask for improvements; colder weather will be coming. Is maintenance of hearing aid amplifiers and headphones part of your responsibility? If so, do you test and inspect them regularly without waiting for faults and complaints? Time for year-end inventory of projection room maintenance data and diagrams, switch ond fuse panel data, and wiring diagrams, so both you and relief men will have full information. Is a complete list of your theatre's fire and other emergency rules and procedures permanently posted in your projection room for guidance of relief projectionists? Will a relief projectionist know where to find, without delay, all tools, supplies and spare parts he may need? If not, why not post list or mark all drawers and cabinets. It you use reel-end alarms are they still in good condition and not damaging to film? Check and see; make adjustments or repairs or order replacements as necessary. Do heating arrangements cause any item of apparatus to operate at more than its allowable temperature rise? Move it to cooler place or give it more ventilation. Have you adjusted your customary volume control settings to allow for the increased sound absorption of heavier clothing worn by patrons at this time of year? If your equipment is such that lamphouse and projector optical centers can get out of alignment, have you set up o regjiar schedule for checking them in this respect? Hove you set up a regular schedule for periodic check-up of change-over mechanisms, hand and motor-driven rewinders, splicers, and other auxiliary items?