P3D Re: Run for Cover

[Steve Carter <timelaw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes it was under and over. There was a sheet posted in the
lobby that showed that system. I looked into the booth before
the movie started, a box called "Stereolux" was mounted on
the projector. I thought about going and knocking on the
projection booth door to ask about the stray light problem,
but decided not to bother.
 


08:47 AM 11/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I would bet the film was being exhibited from a single print
>carrying both images. The stray reflections are an artifact of some of
>the prism/mirror projection devices used to superimpose the images
>on the screen.
>
>Your description makes it sound as if this film was printed using
>an under-and-over system.
>
>I say "House of Wax" on a side-by-side print in the '70s. In that
>case the spillover images were on each side of the screen.
>
>Seems to me, if the problem can't be solved in the design and
>manufacture
>of the prism/mirror box, the projectionist could solve it by tacking up
>some
>barn doors around the projection port--if he cared.
>
>Norm Lehfeldt 
>


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