We were selling pretty well, so we made some moves and cancelled the late shows of Vacancy so that we could add in a '6th' show. Basically, we have the ability to add some leaderfilm to the front of the prints which allows us to use one print on multiple screens. We were running one print in theaters 1 and 2.
Doing this, however, leaves lots of room for error/accidents and such. The platter that the print was feeding from started spinning too fast. Thankfully I was walking that way and noticed it. I ran to it right as the print was flung off the platter and managed to catch it before it unrolled all over the floor.
buuut... in doing so, part of the film got doubled up and was starting to get sucked through a device that controls the pace of the platter.
So I had to do an emergency shut down, on the two projectors, but I didn't make it to the second one in time and we lost proably 2 seconds worth of film from the sprockets grinding it up.
so freakin close to the credits where it wouldn't have matter too much, but we had 400+ very irate people.
Not a good night for me.
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