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Author Topic: Theaters still running 35mm (please read the specifics) Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 08-11-2015 09:39 PM                     OK, according to Fandandgo and the Cinemark website, Lancaster 12 is now all digital as of the end of July. That means a 7/27 screening we saw of "Cinderella" was in their last day or three of film! A sad pleasure to see an operator in the booth adjusting the masking to scope for the feature and starting the show. The print looked fairly good (compared to the nightmare picture I posted above, it was pristine!) and well-illuminated, but the sound wasn't that great and the image wasn't perfectly focused. So now that view through the port window will be the impersonal computerized box and organic film no more. If there are any other theaters in Los Angeles County running first- or second-run film, who knows where it might be. Pretty sure this was the last. My girls and I enjoyed the show, by the way, and for a $1.15 family ticket, can't be beat!  |  IP: Logged Mark Campbell Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Seattle, WA USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 08-11-2015 10:00 PM                     Admiral Twin in West Seattle now digital. I have seen Jurassic World, Ant-Man and Mission Impossible there with the new projectors and the image was great and sound pretty good too. And proper screen masking for all three aspect ratios represented above. I got to peek in the both. Platters are still there though the 35mm projectors have been shoved aside. A 35mm print of Rocky Horror is on one of the platters though they stopped showing it 6 months ago.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-12-2015 12:24 PM                     Starlite Drive-in Bloomington, IN Starlite web site  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 08-16-2015 12:48 PM                        my 35-yrs servicing 35mm film booths all over Texas, Oklahoma, Japan, Guam & Nigeria I only have (2) theaters that still have 35mm film... the Circle Cinema in Tulsa OK & The Texas Theater in Dallas/Oak Cliff Texas (where they found Lee Harvey Oswald at)... I still service 40-theaters buy sound only.....I never thought I see the 35mm go away in my lifetime...  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-16-2015 01:22 PM                     The Blue Light discount cinema in Cupertino, ca is a 5 screen and still 35mm. They just launched a kickstarter last week to try to convert. They cite the issue of lack of available content on 35mm. (Big surprise).  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 08-21-2015 12:28 AM                     They should just keep running whatever film prints they can get- it's not like there's been a whole lot of great new movies lately  |  IP: Logged Stephan Shelley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 854 From: castro valley, CA, usa Registered: Nov 2014 posted 08-21-2015 01:05 AM                     The Garberville Theatre in Garberville CA. Small town single screen. May not quite qualify but the Crest Theatre in Sacramento CA. They mostly run Blu-Rays on a non-cinema video projector. Two 35mm projectors and platter. Single screen former Fox West Coast Theatre. Also a live venue.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 08-28-2015 02:55 AM                     Yep, the Crest is the last 35mm venue here- and with the owner's dedication, he eliminated the union projectionists last year along with the management team that saved the place from wreckage long ago. As a result, "Blade Runner" was recently shown upside-down and backwards. It's said that they got it fixed relatively quick, but I wonder how?  |  IP: Logged Stephan Shelley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 854 From: castro valley, CA, usa Registered: Nov 2014 posted 08-28-2015 08:41 PM                     As of earlier this year the Crest Sacramento is under new management. Did some sound service there. They need some replacement lenses. The ones there are bad.  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-28-2015 09:29 PM                        Groton Cinema 6 Closed Monday, they were still running film http://www.theday.com/article/20150824/NWS01/150829640 The Day Groton — Debora Price drove into the parking lot at the Groton Cinema 6 early Monday afternoon planning to catch a matinee with a couple of her friends. Unfortunately, she discovered, the theater was closed. "I had no idea," Price said. "The movie times were all online this morning." The six-screen theater, which has occupied a freestanding building at the Groton Shoppers Mart on Poquonnock Road (Route 1), had shut down — apparently for good — Sunday night. "Closed. Sorry For Any Inconvenience," read a sign on the front door Monday morning. Movie titles had been removed from the theater's marquee. Town officials received no notice the theater was closing. An employee at the Big Y supermarket that anchors the Shoppers Mart had a pretty good idea, though. "Last night, about 8 o'clock, I saw two trucks there that were either moving stuff in or out — more likely out," Bryan White said Monday. The Big Y stands next to the Groton Cinema 6 building. The theater is owned by Belmont Capital LLC of Cambridge, Mass., where an employee said Monday afternoon that the president of the company's theater division, Mark Benvenuto, was "on site" in Groton. Benvenuto had not returned a message by the end of the day. "It's too bad," said Jonathan Reiner, Groton's director of planning and development services. "I'm sure people around town have a lot of memories of first dates and celebrations there." Reiner noted that the Groton Cinema 6 building "has been around for a while," and that the theater's departure could give rise to "some opportunities" in the area. "There could be some reinvestment into the plaza itself," he said. "A lot of old theater buildings have been converted to other uses. There's definitely a silver lining for the silver screen." According to the website for Belmont Capital-owned theaters, www.yourneighborhoodtheatre.com, the company has more than a dozen movie theaters in New England and New York, including a North Smithfield, R.I., drive-in. The Groton theater was built in 1965 and comprises 22,400 square feet. It's been assessed at $506,870. b.hallenbeck@theday.com Twitter: @bjhallenbeck  |  IP: Logged Jill Duncan Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Taylor, MI, USA Registered: Jun 2015 posted 08-31-2015 01:46 AM                     About two weeks ago the Cinemark 16 second run theater in Warren, MI went all-digital (from 14 screens 35mm). I'm happy that I was at least able to spend a year seeing movies regularly on film, I can't imagine having that privilege ever again going forward.  |  IP: Logged Mark Campbell Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Seattle, WA USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 09-01-2015 06:19 PM                     It seems this topic could use a reboot since a lot has happened since Brad created it. In my neck of the woods up in the Seattle area. All three 35mm locations I reported (Admiral Twin, Factoria 8, East Valley 13) have all gone digital. Aside from rep houses that still have the option for 35mm available, I do not know of any cinemas left in the area still running 35mm as their only means of projection. Anyone know of any holdouts out there?  |  IP: Logged Shawn M. Martin Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Arlington, VA, USA Registered: Feb 2012 posted 09-02-2015 04:37 PM                    quote: Larry Shaw Fine Arts Theatre, Maynard, MA 2 screens, both 35mm first run only Kinoton PK-60D/Super Lume-X/CP-650 This one converted to digital last week.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-02-2015 06:45 PM                     The Vaska Theater here in Lawton is no longer showing movies on 35mm. The theater operator was able to get a new digital projection system financed and installed about a month ago. I don't know what make/model of projector was purchased. Some other upgrades to the sound system, seating and other parts of the theater are either in progress or planned. The Vaska was the film-only last theater in Southwest OK. At first I thought the theater had closed for good. I passed the theater a few different times, driving by on Ferris Ave., and noticed it wasn't open. The film projector was down in the lobby near the front door. I know the property owner; he told me about the digital plans. There is still some question of how long the Vaska can last. It does have a small, yet loyal following of customers. There's a lot of people in town who have memories from long ago of watching movies in that theater. Yet, Carmike is about to open a new 13-plex plus IMAX-branded house. Carmike's existing 8-plex in Lawton could either be converted to a bargain/2nd run theater or just closed. The latter is a possibility given the shorter amounts of time movies have between theatrical opening and availability on home video.  |  IP: Logged Rick Cohen Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: Amherst, New York Registered: Feb 2011 posted 09-02-2015 09:27 PM                        I've been using a spreadsheet to track all the drive-in theatres which are still running 35mm, and have not converted to digital. The current numbers are 333 operational drive-ins. Of those, 288 have converted to digital, and 45 are still operating with 35mm. Most conversions occur in the springtime or over the winter months, so there will probably be several more digital drive-in screens by this time next year, as well as more drive-ins closing which decide not to convert, and can't obtain enough 35mm prints to sustain their business. If anyone is interested, I can probably compile a detailed list of all the 45 drive-ins still running 35mm from my spreadsheet. Rick  |  IP: Logged

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