Projectors: How to Run a Movie Theater

Video Transcript

"Tonight's Saturday night and it's getting late so it's getting close to show time. We're going to go upstairs and see the projection booth. Tonight is kind of an important because it's the busiest night of the week. Also, we're playing a brand new film that opened only last night, Friday night was the first night. It's 3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. Excellent film, so we're going to go upstairs and check out the projectors. We're in the projection booth now, and this is the projector right here. Right here we have the projector on top, the sound head on the bottom, the lens. This is actually a scope lens. That sometimes has to be changed. Films are shot at different ratio, so you may have a flat lens or a scope lens. Inside here is the bulb, which projects the light on the screen. This is 1,000 watt bulb, so you have to be very careful. You never want to touch it or look directly into it. It gets very hot and you have to let it cool down. The projector is a Century and the sound head is also a Century. Right here, the bottom of this is the rectifier. This really is the power that generates the projector and throws the light on the screen."