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Author Topic: Who Still Has A Curtain Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-09-2004 09:12 AM                     I have a curtain in the screening room and the rooms at Paramount all had curtains.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 08-09-2004 10:31 AM                       To me, film done right includes a curtain. When my theater was re-built 6 years ago, the new screen was so big, there was no room left for a curtain. So, we had to make room. At a cost of appr. $40.000 the whole concrete ceiling was taken off and a new "box" built above the screen to house the new curtain. The curtain itself cost appr. $ 24.000. The curtain has a golden colour (imported from France, where else?) and moving up and down. It´s lit with white light, and after coming down before the main feature starts, the lights turn into red. A lot of money for a curtain. Was it worth it? Definately! And the new "box" has space enough for exciting additions in the future. Thomas  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-09-2004 12:41 PM                     Richard -- Your theater is SPECTACULAR! We really need something like that in this area. Something to hold the big premieres and event pictures at. All we have is multiplexes. Anything under 18 screens is over 20 years old. The "Twin" in Celebration is a joke. It's just two typical AMC Auditoriums, nothing special. It's always great to see pictures of theaters like that, and to know that there's still a bunch around. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged George Roher Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Washington DC Registered: Jul 99 posted 08-09-2004 08:48 PM                     The Avalon in Washington DC has a curtain in the main auditorium.  |  IP: Logged Don Anderson Master Film Handler Posts: 312 From: West Bend, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-13-2004 02:31 AM                     We have a curtain in our upper auditorium. Motor works fine. But, the cable that moves the curtain is in bad shape. I'd be afraid to use it, fearing I couldn't open/close it before the show. Plus, its not on the top of my list of things to repair.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-13-2004 10:54 AM                        We've got a beautiful cream satin curtain with 2.5x fullness, making it very full with tons of folds. The satin catches light like crazy. The thing almost shimmers. We have lights on the sides at sever angles to it and they make it look even richer. It just rocks. Yah, I've posted before that there was a time when even the grind houses had curtains. It just was one of those things in the lexicon of class that the better theatres adhered to; it was unheard of that a first run theatre let audiences sit looking at a naked screen. Once theatre morphed into these assembly-line factories with about as much class and character as a toilet seat, well, who needs curtains if you are running a factory? It's the difference between a good restaurant and a fast food joint. Do you NEED a curtain to see a movie? Not if the goal is a utilitarian, lowest common denominator operation. Do you NEED table cloths in a restaurant? Not if you are satisfied with White Castle level of class and sophistication. Not if you are a Philistine.  |  IP: Logged Adam Fuller Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Edinburgh / Scotland Registered: Dec 2003 posted 08-15-2004 06:51 PM                     This was the curtain in the Odeon Edinburgh, Scotland: Opened: Odeon closed this theatre last year.  |  IP: Logged David J Hilsgen Expert Film Handler Posts: 192 From: SAUK RAPIDS,MN . USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 08-16-2004 01:51 AM                     I Have 12 working curtains at the willow creek 12 in plymouth MN I also do curtain calls between trailers & feature and most of time run flat trailers with scope feature .I have my slide projectors wired to open curtains & set the masking Is there any body else doing this .I have a cpa 10 automation that i make the most use out of. Been doing this since the theatre opened 15 years ago.Takes a lot of work to keep them all going.But ads showmanship.Been in the biz for 30 years started at the Cloud DI in ST.CLOUD,MN  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2004 02:49 AM                        quote: This was the curtain in the Odeon Edinburgh, Scotland: That's a beautiful theatre!  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-16-2004 04:32 AM                     quote: Did the Egyptian in Hollywood, CA ever put a curtain in? It's been a few years since I've been in there. It amazed me that they built such a nice place and didn't put in a curtain! Nope. And sometimes they run RP-40 when you're sitting in the audience.. haha. I heard rumour that the "higher powers" in charge of "restoring" the theatre don't believe in curtains. danny  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 08-16-2004 08:17 AM                     The large auditorium in the Cedar Lane Cinemas in Teaneck NJ still has a working curtain. This is the front half of the original auditorium. The Lafayette Theatre in Suffern NY is still a single screen theatre running first run movies. This picture is a little out of date, the owner has since restored the chandelier back into the auditorium as part of his ongoing restoration of the theatre.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-16-2004 08:21 AM                        quote: Dan Lyons I heard rumour that the "higher powers" in charge of "restoring" the theatre don't believe in curtains. "Higher powers....don't believe in curtains" -- and that would be the Anti-Christ.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 08-16-2004 06:34 PM                     The Edinburgh (Clerk St) Odeon [opened as the New Victoria] closed (as a cinema) in September last year. After sitting empty it is currently being used as a temporary (4 weeks) art venue. As far as I know all screens/curtains were removed when Odeon closed the site. At the time of closing all 5 screens (including the 1980s additions) had curtains that were closed after the adverts and trailers and opened for the main feature.  |  IP: Logged Bernie Anderson Jr Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Woodbridge, New Jersey Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-19-2004 10:27 AM                        Both my screening room and theatre has a curtain. Along with Richard Wolf, my curatin is used between the trailers/shorts (yes, I show shorts) and the feature. My audience hasn't seen a blank screen in 15 years. Check out our website Movie Palace Experience for details. I'll through this one out there too, other than me and Richard, who use their theatre pipe organ before a feature as intermission music? Bernie  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-19-2004 06:40 PM                        The Fargo has a nice gold traverse curtain, the 10 plex doesnt have any My home screening room has a red curtain, but the motor doesnt work. Josh  |  IP: Logged

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