Very noticeably, sometimes for a few seconds.
[Movies, theatre, pictures]
2007-04-09 12:59:52 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
If the circles are like fuzz on a T.V when it has interference, then it is perfectly natural if you or anyone in your family wears glasses. Try looking at the sky too, or at a white screen. If you don't have the same results, then go to a diffrent theatre.
2007-04-09 13:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by Carthagosshrahta 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you go to the movies to watch a film, the movies are not on one continuous film reel (not like the old movies you watched in school) but rather they can take 2 or 3 reels of film to show the whole movie. Now how do you know when to stop one reel, and start the other reel?
the people who developed multi reel films needed a way to communicate with the person operating the projector in the booth to start reel 2 and then start reel 3. So they have timed the movie out and timed the process to start the new reel.
when the circle appears it tells the projectionist to start the next reel (they just push a button), and it continues throughtout the films with each new reel needing to be timed and the button pressed when the circle appears.
here is what howstuffworks.com says
Because a feature length film is so long, distributors divide it into segments that are rolled onto reels. A typical two-hour movie will probably be divided into five or six reels. In the early days, films were shown with two projectors. One projector was threaded with the first reel and the other projector with the second reel of the movie. The projectionist would start the film on the first projector, and when it was 11 seconds from the end of the reel, a small circle flashed briefly in the corner of the screen. This alerted the projectionist to get ready to change to the other projector. Another small circle flashed when one second was left and the projectionist pressed a changeover pedal to start the second projector and stop the first one. While the second reel was rolling, the projectionist removed the first reel on the other projector and threaded the third reel. This swapping continued throughout the movie.
2007-04-09 13:02:02 · answer #2 · answered by Adorabilly 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, this is because that "Dot" usually in the upper right (or left) corner is a signal to start the next section / reel of film.
You would not see this in an all-digital showing such as limited theatres had for Toy Story 2 and other features.
2007-04-09 13:09:40 · answer #3 · answered by Brian S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the reel changes sometimes a peice of dust will be on the reel causing big circles at the corners and sometimes in the middle
2007-04-09 13:11:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep.
Movies are divided in reels: Reel 1A, reel 1B, etc. Each movie usually has 6 or 7 reels.
Those circles are to warn the person in charge of the projection that it's time to change the reel.
2007-04-09 13:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by Ms. Pelled Babby Schmidt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes~Subliminal Messages~lol
Actually Change In Reels...I Think
2007-04-09 13:02:42 · answer #6 · answered by Psychotic2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are looking at something dark that has light circles in it then they switch to a light seen sure
like meat wad from aqua teen hunger force
2007-04-09 13:04:42 · answer #7 · answered by Mr nice guy 2U 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they happen when a reel is changed. According to "Fight Club" in the movie industry they're called cigarette burns.
2007-04-09 13:04:27 · answer #8 · answered by nate 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You shouldn't, in that it is a signal to the projectionist that it is time to switch over the reels.
Newer films are on huge plates that avoid that concern
2007-04-09 13:09:06 · answer #9 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, its the effect of having the fast moving tape with a piece of dust being magnified
notice how they are black, and if someone were to walk infront of a projector, their outline is black on the screen.
2007-04-09 13:04:08 · answer #10 · answered by the_infielder44 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋