Brenkert "Enarc" Carbon Arc Light Projectors
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Two “Brenkert” 35mm Motion Picture Projectors were used to project the movie to the screen. Do to the use of “Carbon Rods” for a light source, “Change-Overs” from one projector to the other was required every 18 minutes throughout the movie.
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I was a Black Projectionist in the sixties and seventies. In Los Angeles, you had to be licensed by the Department of Building and Safety to work as a professional projectionist. The practical test was given at Los Angeles Police Department Auditorium at Parker Center, 150 N. Los Angeles Street. The entire booth was all Brinkert Equipment which was rare even then. You had to be twenty-one to be licensed but the tests were so complicated and no young person ever applied, so at 18 no one ever asked me how old I was and I was granted a license after passing all of the tests and worked in So Cal for a while attending UCLA.
I wonder If these are the projectors that were in the candy counter projection room building at the outdoor Starview DI or are they from the indoor Burl Theatre in the same town Boulder Creek CA. They seem to be aimed down slope. The Drive In projectors would have been aimed up a little to the hi outdoor screen? Maybe Epperlyg can tell us If he sees this note?