>>THE GATE OF THE YEAR
Do Anons recall Tom Hanks strange references to "checking the GATE'…
'I've checked the GATE'…
during his acceptance speech at one of the last award shows… which one…? One of the 1st ones of this year, I think…
Tom Hanks
and
Checking The Gate…
Tom Hanks: (06:20)
There is a saying in motion pictures back when it was shot on film that you could not move on to the next scene until the gate was good. The film went through the little… Let me explain it to the kids at home. The film went through a shutter and it had to go through the gate, and sometimes a piece of film would fall off a hair. A speck of dust would be there on the negative, and the shot would be ruined because you couldn’t save it in the lab. The gate had to be good before you could move on. Cecil B Demille himself up in that voice of God chair, “All right, that’s wonderful. Cut. Check the gate.” He’d say something like that, and then they would check the gate. And if the gate was good, then you moved on.
Tom Hanks: (07:08)
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the cold that is making this happen. I swear to God I’m not nearly this emotion at home. Well, thank you HFPA. Thank you all here. Thank you all for all your inspiration and all of your work and all of the struggle that you guys all go through in order to hit the marks and tell the truth. I have checked the gate. The gate is good. Thanks.
Tom Hanks Golden Globes Acceptance Speech Transcript: Hanks Reveives Cecil B. deMille Award
January 5, 2020
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/tom-hanks-golden-globes-acceptance-speech-transcript-hanks-reveives-cecil-b-demille-award