I've always been told that, when you see the boom mike in the shot, it is the projectionists fault. They don't have the films centered correctly or the boom mike would be out of the picture you see. Most projectionists start up the film, make sure it isn't too blurry, and take off to another theatre to start another film. TonyU SC>I just saw The Ice Storm at a local Ann ARbor theater last night and SC>noticed A LOT of glaring problems with the boom microphone. It shows up SC>at the top of the frame in a couple scenes, and otherwise it seems that SC>the microphone has been masked out of a lot of scenes by masking WELL INTO SC>the upper part of the frame. In some of the later scenes, for example, SC>the screen at my theater was 3/4 to 1/3 black. SC>ARG!!! This is a beautiful, thoughtfully directed and acted film. SC>What's up? Did I see a bad print? Was my theater screwy? Or did this SC>somehow just get through the 20th Cent Fox gristmill looking like this? SC>My sense is that it couldn't have been the projection situation, since the SC>masking changed *with* the cutting from shot to shot, sometimes a big SC>swatch of masking would cut to no masking at all. SC>Does anyone have any info on this? And does anyone know if the reviews SC>of the film have mentioned this at all? I haven't been reading reviews SC>lately, but the ones of the film I've heard on the radio haven't mentioned SC>the problem-- SC>Thanks, SC>Susan Crutchfield SC>University of Michigan SC>---- SC>To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L SC>in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]