Interesting dream.  I was wandering around NYC and came across an independent film crew loading into a hotel for a shoot.  I lingered and started talking to one of the crew.  They were making a documentary about something.

The camera was huge, like an Aaton XTR but three times the size!  I marveled that they were shooting on film and not video.  I assisted the assistant in loading the camera.  They had this strange film.  It was about 50MM wide and double imaged, like regular 8MM before it was slit apart.  (Regular 8 film is 16MM film with double the perf holes.  You shoot half the roll, turn it over and shoot the other half.  It’s processed as 16MM on 16MM developers and then cut lengthwise down the middle and the ends are glued together.)  For decoration the cameraman had a sprig of 8MM print wound around the stem of the film magazine.

They went into the hotel and I helped carry some of their gear.  They were shooting all the way at the top actually in the building next door.  The hotel had this open atrium, 7 stories high.  We worked our way up past all these 5-star guests until we reached the top.  There was a decorative pool in one corner and they set up next to that.  The water was really cold but they all got into it to wait until the subject arrived.

While they were in the pool I saw the hotel manager and a bunch of staff start heading our way.  I told the crew and they took off, the AC grabbed the camera and everyone scattered.  I wasn’t worried because I wasn’t with them.  They came to me and asked a bunch of questions.  I made nice with the hotel manager to get on his good side.  He took me around and showed my another location where they had some other equipment.  They had no idea what to do with it so I told them I’d take care of it all.  I rounded up everything I could get my hands on and started moving it.

That’s what happens when you spend two hours working on a shooting budget right before bed!