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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 12-13-2000 08:17 AM

From the pictures above, it looks like those exit signs at the front doors would be pretty bright once the lights are turned out. Do they dim or anything? I don't mind aisles as much if the auditoriums is large enough, but I really hate center aisles when it is the only aisle and the auditorium is only 28 feet wide. The auditorium in the above pictures appears to be about 60 feet wide (if the screen is 30 feet wide in scope mode).

Evans

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-13-2000 10:01 AM

The exit signs aren't (weren't) too bad, actually. They used little 4 1/2-watt lightbulbs that look like golf balls. They look bad in the pictures because each photo is a time exposure of a couple of seconds each, which causes the highlights to "blow out" a bit. In reality, there was only a problem if someone stupidly replaced a burned-out bulb with a 60-watt full-size bulb or something like that.

Center aisles do stink, though they are OK if very few people are in the theatre and everyone can sit close to the center. Again, it will be interesting to see what happens during the renovation...they may keep the center aisle for historical reasons or may go for a two-aisles-with-center-section approach.

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-15-2000 12:08 AM

quote:
Beautiful theatre, except anyone who puts an aisle down the middle should be slugged!

You wouldn't slug the guy who built the Avalon on Catalina Island, would you?

There's a page with more Avalon pictures & a 3D Ipix-like thing at

http://www.catalinaconservancy.org/general/casino/casino.htm

Oh! Remembered another one!

You wouldn't slug John Eberson, would you?

That's the Chicago Paradise.

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

Posts: 3250
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 12-22-2000 10:15 PM

Since I have never worked at a theater that uses curtains the slides do not bother me. However, I see your point when it comes to leaving the curtains open. We have a theater here that still uses curtains and they refuse to run slides. As far as lens changes I never do them anymore. However what is anoying is when they print the 1.85 aspect ration on a scope trailer and you have the black bars on the sides. This just looks rediculous no matter if you use top or side maskings.

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Jeff Newman
Film Handler

Posts: 14
From: Fenton, MO, USA
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 01-29-2001 02:25 PM

The slides don't bother me as much as the new practice of putting actual COMMERCIALS before the trailors. I come to see a movie, not to see a commercial. I mean it's like first they said:

Hey! We can make some money showing some slides before a movie!

And then they said:

Hey if we show some actual commercials before the movie commercials (trailors) and before the theatre commercials (visit our concession stand/Buy our gift certificates) We can make even more money!

Im starting to feel like in 10 years we will watch 30 minutes of commercials/trailors before we even get to the movie ;-)

-Jeff "Box office God" Newman

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John Pytlak
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Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 01-29-2001 02:42 PM

Jeff Newman said: "I'm starting to feel like in 10 years we will watch 30 minutes of commercials/trailors before we even get to the movie".

I hope you're wrong, but for some circuits, that seems to be the way it's headed. I've heard that some Digital Cinema proponents feel commercials may be a way to offset the heavy investment required for Digital Cinema, as the ability to instantly update on-screen commercials and "proof of play" are real desires of advertising agencies.

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