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Author Topic: university owned cinemas Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-12-2004 12:08 PM                       Illinois State University in Normal, IL has a campus theatre that employs IA projectionists. Carbon arc and 20-minute reels, too! I worked that booth one night as a favor to the local, it was a great diversion!  |  IP: Logged Peter Castle Expert Film Handler Posts: 220 From: Wollongong University, NSW ,Australia Registered: Oct 2003 posted 02-13-2004 02:37 AM                     I'm involved in running a twice weekly cinema on the campus of the University of Wollongong, about 50km south of Sydney, Australia. We operate in a multi-purpose venue (used for graduations, examinations, weddings, conferences, rock shows, etc.) which has a flat floor but at three levels. We seat about 850, have a screen about 48' wide, and all three digital systems. We use Eprad double MUTs instead of platters, but only screen most films once. We sell out on a regular basis at $3 Aus ($2.40 at current exchange rate). We've been operating for about 30 years with most of our equipment purchased from box-office takings. And why? Because we are completely volunteer-run. Visit our website at [URL=http://unimovies.uow.edu.au][/URL] for some pictures. I'll have to send them in for the picture pages (if someone can tell me what size I should make them).  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 02-13-2004 10:35 AM                        Hi. It seems to me that from what I know of swedish theatres at universities, almost all of them are run by the students/Student unions. Maybe it's a swedish phenomenon. Don't know if it helps, or if you need "un-american" theatres in your project. If you do I can supply relevant swedish links  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-13-2004 11:26 AM                     According to 1990s USC propaganda, the Eileen Norris Cinema at USC is one of the best-equipped theatres in the U.S.A. The Norris Theatre can run 16mm, 35mm (all ratios) and 70mm. DTS and Dolby Digital are available (not sure about SDDS). The booth is spacious, clean and tidy. I attended many lecture-screenings there and it remains one of my favorite places to see a movie. In addition to all the course-related screenings, the Norris hosts weekly screenings of 2nd run releases for the general student population. USC has two smaller cinemas located in the George Lucas Instructional Building, where you will also find a variety of screening rooms.  |  IP: Logged Kara J. McVay Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Delaware, OH Registered: May 2002 posted 02-14-2004 12:01 AM                        Hi, I do still exist. Gone thru a divorce & move..... I am owned by OWU and there is a theatre in Hamilton NY, owned by Colgate. The Hamilton Theatre, managed by Chuck Fox.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-14-2004 01:53 AM                     OWU owns you?  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-14-2004 02:24 PM                    How about everyone chip in and buy her?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-14-2004 08:47 PM                     Kara I installed that theatre in a very tiring weekend along with Jim Wright and Bob Throop  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-18-2004 06:34 PM                     MIT's Lecture Series Committee (LSC) is a student-run-and-operated group that projects two or three 35mm films/weekend (i.e. 6-8 showings/weekend) for the campus community (as well as bringing lecturers to campus, hence the name). MIT has 3 venues with 35mm capability, LSC is the prime user, though occasionally the audiovisual department does some 35mm. UChicago's DocFilms and CMU's ab films are both similar. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 02-18-2004 07:07 PM                     quote: It seems to me that from what I know of swedish theatres at universities, almost all of them are run by the students/Student unions. Maybe it's a swedish phenomenon. It happens at some British universities. In Edinburgh University Film Society's case we rent rooms from Edinburgh University and the students union in which to screen films. For budget reasons we show 20 films per year on 35mm, and 40 on 16mm/DVD. We own our own projection equipment (although are prepaired to hire it to the university/outside groups). The role of film socities depends on the location of the university and other cinemas. An isolated campus based univeristy will have far more early second run content than a socity based (like us) in a city with 69 commercial screens.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-18-2004 08:07 PM                        quote: MIT has 3 venues with 35mm capability 26-100, 10-250, and...? carl  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 09:14 PM                     Kresge Auditorium. I saw a sneak of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Die Hard there. (Die Hard wasn't a sneak, though.) You had to present a student ID to get into the sneak but since a few of my buddies were students there at the time they "procured" me one.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-18-2004 10:00 PM                     Actually, Kresge lost its 35mm capability circa 1998 ; it didn't get used much (1500 seats was too big) and there was political pressure for booth space. Third room is 54-100. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 10:19 PM                     Well, then, I date myself.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 06-20-2004 05:11 PM                     University of California, Irvine has a room equipped with 35mm Kinotons, Dolby SR and DTS, Kinoton 16mm and video projections. Screen is aprox. 30' wide, room seats 350 persons stadium style. It also functions as a lecture hall. The room has been in operation by me since it opened in late 1997. Programming varies, mostly obscure films worldwide, but also run advance sneaks for the studios. Link to Film and Video Center: (The majority of programs) www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc  |  IP: Logged

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