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Chad M Calpito
Master Film Handler

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From: San Diego, CA
Registered: Apr 2006

posted 08-26-2006 09:59 AM

We usually have between 25-50 minutes between shows, especially with those popular movies and kid movies. Sometimes, there's even an hour between shows, but, to me, that's way to much time since the auditorium is not being used during the hours excess time. But, the common sense time is the best so we can get our guests in within a reasonable amount of time. I do notice that our Theatres #1 (425 seats) & Theatre #10 (625 seats) needs more time for cleaning during the weekends.

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Caleb Johnstone-Cowan
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From: London, UK
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 08-27-2006 08:53 PM

quote: Aaron Mehocic
If we permitted 30 minutes to ads and trailers there would be small riots in each of our auditoriums. A former assistant manager used to program as many as six trailers in his packs. By the time the last greenband hit the screen, more customers were more sour than excited to see the movie.

Most cinemas in the UK adhere to roughly the same pre-feature programming. This usually is policy-ads-policy-trailers-'gold spot'-feature. The mobile phone company Orange have paid a large amount of money to have their ads placed in the 'gold spot' before the feature in nearly all UK cinemas. It's been this way as long as I can remember going to the cinema which is 16 years now, so everyone accepts it.

quote: Scott Norwood
Whatever you do, please do _not_ send ushers in to clean the auditorium before the film is over and the house lights are up. As a patron, I always hate it when staff enter the theatre (and, occasionally, turn on the cleaning lights) while the credits are still running.

That's why decent times between shows are vital. If the floor staff know that they won't be able to get the auditorium clean in time they will definitely go in as soon as the lights go up during the credits. Although I've always thought the lights should go down fully at the start of the programme and not come up until the end of the feature.

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Jesse Skeen
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From: Sacramento, CA
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posted 08-28-2006 01:21 PM

How bout cleaning during the trailers, instead of the end credits?

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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
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posted 08-28-2006 02:34 PM

quote: Jesse Skeen
How bout cleaning during the trailers, instead of the end credits?

Hopefully you aren't serious. [Roll Eyes]

I personally consider any disruption of my enjoyment of any part of the on-screen presentation unacceptable, including trailers, feature presentation, and end credits. Leave sufficient time between shows for proper cleanup in an EMPTY auditorium.

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Chad M Calpito
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From: San Diego, CA
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posted 08-29-2006 10:41 AM

I hope you are just kidding, Jesse. [Smile]

In my theatre, ushers aren't allowed to clean a theatre once the movie is started, so, they have to hussle after each show to get the auditorium clean. They do a pretty good job, which I am happy to say. It's just plain rude when ushers are in the auditorium when the movie has started (Screenvision Rolling Stock, A-Logo Policy Trailer, Film Trailers, FPS Policy Trailer and then, the Movie).

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 08-29-2006 12:24 PM

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I personally consider any disruption of my enjoyment of any part of the on-screen presentation unacceptable,

Me too. I sure wish they'd get rid of CrAP Code. [Wink]

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Andrew Peter Chobaniuk
Film Handler

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From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Registered: Jul 2006

posted 09-12-2006 06:15 AM

at our theatre we run 20 mins minimum between shows
but even that wasnt long enough when when Pirates first came out, even with 2 prints we were sold out for a week and a half straight, thank god im not concession [Big Grin]

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John Caswell
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From: Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
Registered: Oct 2006

posted 10-21-2006 11:03 AM

Hi, just noticed this thread - in our cinema we often have less than 10 minutes turnaround between end of show and start of next. Quite often its about 3 mins or so, and in a number of cases they actually program the shows with an overlap!

The Management allow 15 mins ad time, even though they've now pushed us to 4 trailers, pretty much always a full 10 mins of ads, and then various sponsorship logos. Very often shows are running over into the programmed start time of the next show. At the mo we're running "The History Boys", they've programmed 15 mins of ads as usual, but we're running 28 mins worth of ads/trailers/logos + a short film beforehand. P**sing everyone off!

Regarding ushers cleaning, very often we're getting ushers hitting the cleaners lights (very powerful halogen floods - bleaching out the screen completely) as soon as the credits start to roll. To be honest though we do occasionally have this trouble with the ushers even on the occasions when there's a good hour or so after the show. [Mad]

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Adam Heath
Film Handler

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From: Rock Island, IL
Registered: Dec 2004

posted 10-27-2006 05:29 PM

Our company requires 25 minutes. I used to run them about 15-20 minutes. Now atleast if I make a runtime mistake there is usually still enough time to clean and not have too many people waiting in the lobby

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John Caswell
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From: Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
Registered: Oct 2006

posted 10-28-2006 06:36 PM

I could only wish for 20-25 minutes on every show. On our last 3 70mm shows (tend to show one a month) we had a 9 minute turnaround between end of 70mm show and start of 35mm show (running a Kinoton DP75 35mm/70mm projector), this went to 7 minutes, and then dropped to 3 minutes on our last show. [thumbsdown]

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Caleb Johnstone-Cowan
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From: London, UK
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 10-30-2006 05:31 PM

"Quite often its about 3 mins or so, and in a number of cases they actually program the shows with an overlap!"

I would complain to the manager who programs the film times, if they do nothing go to the manager outright or the company. They did this where I used to work, looking back I should have complained. I had a film programmed with a 40-minute overlap in my last week.

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