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Author Topic: Shadow Box Screens System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 02-18-2012 07:51 AM                 It has been 4232 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Mark Campbell Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Seattle, WA USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 02-18-2012 07:51 AM                     Jump starting this thread after a 12 year gap! Now that we have advanced in digital photography and scanning I was curious if anyone had links to any images of GCC Shadow Box screens. I have fond memories of the Villa Plaza I-II-III in Lakewood, WA where as a kid I saw Return of the Jedi, Romancing the Stone, Big Trouble in Little China and others in scope on the Shadow Box screen. And yes, it sucked for flat movies.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-18-2012 10:26 AM                     FWIW, the ex-GC unit at Eastern Hills Mall in Buffalo (now run by local operator Dipson Theaters which is owned by Michael Clement) still has the shadow box in the largest house which Gordon mentioned earlier in the thread.  |  IP: Logged Mark Campbell Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Seattle, WA USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 02-19-2012 05:59 AM                     Is that in Williamsville? Somebody should really get some good pictures of that.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-19-2012 10:38 AM                     Yes, it's Williamsville. I bought that mall years ago but am no longer involved with it. I did put a new front/sign/concession/lobby on the cinema, however.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-19-2012 12:16 PM                      |  IP: Logged Mark Campbell Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Seattle, WA USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 02-19-2012 01:05 PM                     Brad, I was never certain if Northpark was Shadow Box. Hard to tell from the photo. They painted the box black then? How did it look for 70mm and flat films if the screen was 2.35:1?  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 02-24-2012 03:16 PM                        Classic Cinemas' Cinema 12 in Carpentersville, IL had a shadow box when I was there years ago. Pic can be found on Cinematour.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-24-2012 06:11 PM                        The one Brad posted looks like it has a blue shadow box. Either that or the slide is too big for the screen. Either way, it looks kind of awful. You Welcomes! So does the one Scott posted. Lots of stuff being reflected from the screen there.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-24-2012 10:34 PM                     Joe, that was a long exposure. The overspill was impossible to see in real life. Photoshop wasn't available back then.  |  IP: Logged Jim Henk Master Film Handler Posts: 364 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 02-24-2012 10:38 PM                     General Cinemas in Santa Anita, CA had one in each theatre. (4-plex) Cours it's been about 25 years since I've been back there. The shadow box and the screen seemed to meld together when the whole frame was lit in a soft blue, and somehow I wasn't distracted when it was just the movie. And yes, it was white.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-26-2012 11:30 AM                     The one I wrote about above was painted matte black, not lit, and frankly was no asset.  |  IP: Logged

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