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Topic: Projection Booths in Schools, Libraries, etc.
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-16-2000 01:43 AM
There's a nice silent-era photo of the outdoor Palace Theatre in Kingston Jamaica at
http://members.xoom.com/saenger.1/theatres/jamaica/palace.htm I have some more photos of the Palace from Lloyd Alberga, some show the renovation when silent-era bandstands were removed & a wider screen screen was being installed (but I haven't gotten around to putting them up). Permanent outdoor theaters seem to have been popular in the US also during WWII at military bases in temperate locations; they were building mongo 5,000 seat "houses" & larger! After the war, many of these military bases were broken up & sold for private use, & many regional movie exhibition companies got their start buying & opening for public use smaller outdoor & larger indoor theater in quonsett huts, etc. In the silent days, temporary outdoor installations in the spring, summer & fall were very, very common. If you go to your local library & pull up a paper from about 1927, somewhere in there you're very likely to find "the city's summer outdoor movies in (whatever) park which have been such a success will continue with movies again this year..." It wouldn't have been hard to haul it all outside in the silent days. There are references to this being done all over, but never note of music, & I haven't been able to find any hard records of the setups or folks involved. They could easily have been completely silent, or somebody could have hauled an old upright out; but it's fun to think of silent showings in shady parks or breezy beaches with small orchestras sawing away in the night.
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John Walsh
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From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 06-16-2000 02:56 PM
A fellow I know works for the Navy Motion Picture Service. They used to be based in Westchester, NY, just outside of NYC, but moved down south. They had a fairly large depot for films.He said there was a big move 15 years ago from 16mm to video tape. Although, the NMPS does run everything from a 'real' Dolby equipped theater, to a little portable and a stretched-out sheet. He said an interesting thing: the Navy actually keeps tabs on what films the crew like to see. On one submarine, the crew always wanted to see films like; "Crimson Tide and "The Caine Mutiny," (both about mutiny onboard navy ships.) After talking to the sailors for several months, the crew sort of admitted that the captain wasn't treating them very well, but they didn't want to say anything. So, they eventually replaced the captian.
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