posted 11-03-2003 01:25 AM                       

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Regal here always walks the auditoriums at least once per show. They try to be very low-key about it, but they do usually carry a flashlight. They walk all the way to the front and off to the side near an exit

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posted 12-09-2003 04:46 PM                    

• 1) Blank screen
  2) Dirty screen
  3) Shaky or bulging screen
  4) Defective masking of the screen
  5) Unsteady picture
  6) Poor definition
  7) Travel ghost
  8) Flicker
  9) Poor illumination
  10) Misframing
  11) Faulty change-over
  12) Unnatural speed
  13) Distortion
  14) Dirty aperture
  15) Punch-marks, rain, scratches, thumb-prints, warped
  film, oil spots
  16) Slides offline
  17) Cracked or smeared slides
  18) Poor slide change-over
  19) Noisy projector
  20) Flipper late, or misplaced
  21) Sound track visible on screen
  22) Glare spots on screen
  23) Spread light on apron

• 1) Fuzzy sound
  2) Flutter
  3) Ground noise
  4) Echo
  5) Improper musical introduction to sound shorts
  6) Needle noise
  7) Sound and picture out of synchronization
  8) Faulty synchronization of change-over
  9) Volume too low or too high
  10) Jerky Fader change
  11) Noisy moving of stage horns
  12) Horns moved into position too late
  13) Loose units in horns
  14) Failure to remedy "pockets" in "dead spots"
  15) Improper framing of the transvox over silent screen
  16) Motor generator or fan noises

• 1) Clumsy entrances and exits
  2) Faulty line work
  3) Dancers out of step
  4) Dancers out of tempo
  5) Line arrangement for size
  6) Crooked line
  7) Costumes not clean
  8) Voices not loud enough
  9) Miscues
  10) Faulty make-up
  11) Properties incomplete
  12) Too many bows
  13) Numbers repeated too often
  14) Poor arrangement of units
  15) Omissions
  16) Unplanned encores
  17) Stalling
  18) Superfluous and unnecessary "ad-libing"
  19) Continuity disregarded
  20) Similarity of dance routines
  21) Lack of contrast of unit
  22) Performers visible off stage
  23) Failure of M.C. to sell an act
  24) M.C. cues
  25) Gestures
  26) Poor diction
  27) Lack of variety in introductions
  28) Announcements made too soon before applause dies down
  29) Familiarity with audience overdone
  30) Failure to subordinate M.C. to performer after
  introduction

• 1) Tardy or wrong size spot
  2) Over spread flood lighting
  3) Glare from shiny surfaces reflecting light
  4) Manipulation of dimmers
  5) Spotlight halo
  6) Ineffective chose of colors (gelatines)
  7) Improper lighting on transparenties
  8) Lights behind scrims at improper time
  9) Failure to mask off-stage lighting equipment
  10) Cracked gelatines
  11) Burned out lamps
  12) Footlights unsheltered from balcony
  13) Spot reflection
  14) Bad contact at stage pockets
  15) Improper spotting of performers
  16) Effect machines at improper speed

• 1) House lights late
  2) Picture house lighting too bright
  3) Lights bumped on or off
  4) Stray light from booth, house fixture, etc.
  5) Glare spots in auditorium
  6) Color combinations

• 1) Jerking curtains
  2) Fouling of drops
  3) Failure to mask battens
  4) Noisy sheaves
  5) Improper "live" or "die" trims
  6) Unsteady stage braces
  7) Improper off-stage masking
  8) Noisy traveler
  9) Noisy lowering of drops
  10) Off-stage noise
  11) Ripped scenery
  12) Set off center line
  13) Platforms not rigid
  14) Improper storge of scenery
  15) Visible wires
  16) Borders not trimmed
  17) Failure to draw curtains to meet
  18) Failure to mask towers
  19) Too rapid or too slow lowering and raising of
  curtains and drops
  20) Dirty stage apron

• 1) Noisy entrance and exit
  2) Loud and discordant tuning
  3) Untimely elevator
  4) Lack of proper "elevator" music
  5) Wrong levels of elevator
  6) Orchestra out of tune
  7) Lack of uniformity in bowing of violins
  8) Wrong combination of instruments
  9) Ineffective speedometer signals
  10) Untidy music racks
  11) Talking in the pit
  12) Tardy cueing of newsreels clip
  13) Cueing to the newsreel improperly timed
  14) Poor arrangements
  15) Inefficient use of mutes
  16) Selections too lengthy
  17) Leader's showmanship
  18) Glare from instruments
  19) Traps and sound effects
  20) Overplaying voice or picture
  21) Defective grouping of musicians

• 1) Organ lift untimely
  2) Improper color spot for selection
  3) Music on rack disorderly
  4) Personal appearance of organist
  5) Glare
  6) Organ out of key with orchestra on coordination
  7) Monotony of stops
  8) No music during trailers
  9) Organist improvising and not following the score
  10) Improper control of volume
  11) Improper selection of stops
  12) Improper selection of tempo during slide present-
  ation
  13) Console dirty
  14) Cyphers
  15) Carelessly spotted
  16) Failure to catch direct cues
  17) Signals for change of slides not properly timed
  18) Failure to change selection after feature concluded
  19) Too long pauses before stage show or following
  presentation
  20) Light left burning