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Author Topic: Strange Booths Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-19-2003 11:42 AM                     quote: What about booths that have no port glass, platters or AC/HVAC systems? Paranoid dillusional projectionst? Sorry, but I just hate hearing stupid ghost stories about booth. However, I still mess with the rookies when they bring it up. We have these huge doors at the end of each hallway, I assume where the equipment was brought it, that just open up into air. So, I tell them that some guy opened the door and fell to his death.  |  IP: Logged Dennis M Dow Jr Expert Film Handler Posts: 141 From: Bloomfield NJ USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 10-19-2003 04:30 PM                       Weirdest booth I saw was the Bellevue Theater in Montclair, NJ. Converted single into a triple, The upper booth you went through the upstairs theater onto the roof and up a rickety rusted ladder to get to the booth. Also the AMC Empire in NYC... 25 screens and I think 16 booths...very confusing....  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 10-19-2003 07:09 PM                     To get to the booth in Plesance Theatre [Edinburgh] there is now the choice of using a vertical ladder or going though the janitor's house and over the roof. We also do an annual outdoor showing [in the courtyard/carpark/graveyard] where we project out of windows on one side onto a screen hung out of windows on the other.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-20-2003 01:43 AM                        The booth in the theatre at Notre Dame juts out over the audience; the two side walls and the entire front wall are glass, floor to ceiling. I hated it because it was like you were in a fish bowl and you were the fish. Everyone was forever staring at you. This also meant that you had to wear a uniform which consisted of a chef's black jacket and black pants. Every formal looking. Very uncomfortable. Frank  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-20-2003 06:47 AM                     Frank is that Notre Dame University at South Bend? Jeff  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-20-2003 11:50 PM                        You bet. Technically. However, NDU likes to think of itself as just a tad above the townies. They got the US Post Office to give them their own name and zipcode. You don't address a letter to South Bend, IN when you are writing your prepy son, but rather to Notre Dame, IN 46556. They are a world unto themselves. Great, now I'm gonna get a dozen ND alumni come to beat me up. Any of my fellow alums on the forum? Frank  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-21-2003 03:29 AM                     I'm not an Alum, Frank, just a Hoosier.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-21-2003 05:52 AM                        My daughter Katie is a "Domer", graduating from Notre Dame in 1998. She spent another year there as a campus minister, and then got her Masters in Education in the ND "ACE" fellowship program, teaching two years in Charlotte NC. She's now a teacher in Boston, and attending classes at Boston College: University of Notre Dame ND Victory March ND Traditions ND ACE Program Boston College  |  IP: Logged Steve Anderson Expert Film Handler Posts: 168 From: Nashville, TN Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-21-2003 04:40 PM                        I visited a Drive-In that added a screen 180 from the original. They had a periscope device that sent the picture to the back screen. Very odd. I wonder if anyone else has tried this.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 10-21-2003 05:24 PM                        I enjoy the carved up singles that have gone to great length to keep one projection booth. Tiny tiny hallways all over the place, rollers going around corners and down stairs just because the platter can't fit right next to the projector. You name it... some people have done some weird stuff just to avoid having separate booths. And for some reason I can't remember any of my favorites right now. The only odd booth that comes to mind is the Cinema West Sonoma 6. Where the platters barely fit into the booth and have the platter legs sticking off into the stair well. The State Theatre in Marysville, CA had a platter in the old cry room and rollers leading over to it because they didn't want to knock down the wall between the booth and the cry room.  |  IP: Logged Rick Hunter Master Film Handler Posts: 452 From: Melbourne, Australia Registered: Feb 2003 posted 10-21-2003 08:14 PM                     For periscope projection at a Drive in have a look at www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/projectionbooths/dromanabox.htm Regards, Rick  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 10-21-2003 08:14 PM                    Luckily, John had kids before there was the internet to waste all his time.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-21-2003 09:34 PM                        My time on the Internet is well spent! Getting to know people from all over the world who share an interest in movies is great fun. And keeping in touch with my "kids" is made easy, with e-mails to/from Boston MA and Florence Italy on a daily basis.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 11-05-2003 04:28 PM                     This is the strangest projection setup that I know of; it has been mentioned in these forums before, by myself and others, and I thought it deserved a place in this thread, but it really needs a picture, and I couldn't find one. This afternoon I was looking at an old copy (September 2002) of the BKSTS magazine 'Cinema Technology', and found a picture, published originally in the Architects Journal of 1936; I hope they will excuse my reproducing it here. Two London railway stations were provided with news theatres in the '30s, this was the installation at Waterloo, served by trains to the South West. I never saw this installation, I believe it was replaced by something more conventional in later years. The theatre closed in about 1970 I think, and the concreate box suspended above a roadway outside the station building which had contained it was demolished a few years ago. A small screen was originally provided on which train departures were displayed by means of a slide lantern. The strange projection system was to enable the seating to be brought closer to the front of the auditorium, and thereby accomodate more people in the limited space.  |  IP: Logged

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