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Author Topic: Screening room at the Vatican Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-19-2008 04:25 PM                        The place looks like a church, and the red bench an altar. The screen also looks like it's hung up there temporarily - no masking and a solid wall behind it, so I very much doubt if there are any speakers behind it. That speaker looks temporary, too - the wiring from the booth to a speakon plug in the wall may be permanent, but it looks to me like the speaker and the screen are designed to be easily positioned and removed. I guess that this place is really a church or a chapel of some description, that it's only used for screenings occasionally and that the only permanent film-related fixture is the projection booth at the back.  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-19-2008 04:48 PM                        quote: Michael Brown Is that red bench where the audience sits to watch the movie? When they passed the plate if you had nothing to contribute you sat up front:) If thats a mid size JBL or comparable sitting on the stage Id guess the screen to be 10 to 12 feet in width.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-19-2008 05:14 PM                     it's very difficult to judge the scale of that Vatican place. It looks quite small, and the lamphouses seem to confirm this. Also the translation says: quote: Since the late 90s will take place in a small chapel annual international festival of religious film. Does this mean that it is still used as a chapel, and serves as a cinema only occasionally, or is it used only as a cinema now? I would have thought an 'international festival of religious film' might need a larger venue than this seems to be. Maybe the Catholic Church has only a few people Worldwide who are interested in film? I've just thought of another connection between church and cinema. IVC, who built the 9000 video recorder had some connection with Rank, though I'm not sure exactly what. Rank Strand Electric supplied lighting equipment for theatres and studios, Rank took over Kalee, not long before the projector firm's demise, Rank owned Odeon cinemas for many years, and Rank Cintel, another part of Rank Precision Industries, made flying spot telecine machines, and photocells for projectors. Rank had a major involvement in film. Rank himself was a Christian, and his involvement with film started with films of a religious nature. In the '50s, they were involved in various 'Biblical Epic' type productions. Rather more interestingly, in 1942, Rank made the very seldom seen British Technicolor Film 'The Great Mr Handel', about the life of the composer, and the writing of 'Messiah'. The acting is a bit strange in places, but the cinematography is by Jack Cardiff, who I met at a screening of the film at a small cinema in London some years ago, and Claude Friese-Greene. Much of the film is quite dark, as you might expect in candle-lit 18th century buildings, and Technicolor didn't approve of the way it was lit, and the muted colours used. It seems that there were various disputes between them and Rank and Cardiff over this. It doesn't look like a typical Technicolor film does. For anybody interested in Technicor it's worth seeing this film for what could be done with the process.  |  IP: Logged

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