How a Film Is Played in a Movie Theater

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Nancy Adler and on behalf of Expert Village, today I'm going to tell you how to operate a cinema, a movie cinema. This is the platter. There are tiers here, and this is called a platter system. The films lays sideways on the platter and it feeds out from the center. It goes through a piece in the center, which is called the brain. The brain is probably the most important part of the whole projection system because you never want to have a brain wrap. You're finished. You have a brain wrap, that's it. Usually you have to shut down for the night. That means that the film has wrapped around the inside and tightens up. What we do is once the film is on the platter, it goes through the brain, it goes around those spindles, it travels over to the projector head, and across the top where it laces up. Then it's down, it loads through the cinema, down past the sound head, then it comes back to the platter, and it rewinds on a different platter. If everything is done properly, the film is loaded properly, once the switch is turned on that's the end of the job for the evening. The projectionist can go have a cigarette."