[Frameworks] 16mm in the classroom - projector noise!

[Ken Bawcom]

For in-office projection at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, we made a  
foam lined plywood box, with a window in front of the lens. It sat on  
a metal cart. It was open on one side, for access to the projector. It  
didn't eliminate the noise, but did reduce it quite a bit. I suppose  
that with the addition of a small fan for ventilation, it might be  
possible to have a door on one side, and close it off completely.

Another possibility - I know that they make electronic noise  
cancellation devices for industrial equipment. I suppose one could be  
configured to cancel projector noise, but I don't know how expensive  
that would be.

Ken B.


Quoting Brook Hinton <bhinton at gmail.com>:

> Howdy Frameworkers,
>
> On another media in the classroom note - has anyone come up with any
> sort of homebrew projection booth or projector noise muffling solution
> for classrooms with no booth? I was about to rent some Nathaniel
> Dorsky films to show in a course I'm teaching, but then realized that
> glorious silence that is so essential to those images would instead by
> a constant din courtesy of the Elmo Corporation. Once I started
> thinking about this I realized how many films I might otherwise screen
> would be seriously compromised by such a setting - sound films as
> well.
>
>
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