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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-24-2003, 08:46 AM:

Tom, VERY good article and well written. I wish you wouldn't stop at the L.A. theaatres though.....There are other many supposedly great theatres that deserve to be given the "Holman treatment too!!

Mark @ CLACO
www.clacoequipment.com
P.S. Brad,
Sorry but Toms article deserves to be on is own out of the sneaky preview comments......

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-24-2003, 11:24 AM:

Yes, let's force poor Tom to visit EVERY theater in North America! I would loooove to hear what he would have to say about my theater, though I'm sure the owners wouldn't.

Good article and great reading.

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 01-24-2003, 12:13 PM:

Vindication! [Wink]

When I saw "The Rookie" at the Arclight back in May last year, I noticed a severe echo problem in that house. I mentioned it here. Tom mentions the echo problem at Arclight too.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-24-2003, 12:49 PM:

Joe--I have no idea how good (or bad) the sound quality is in your theatre, but I'm sure that it would improve tenfold if you would install a Cine Gong in every house.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-24-2003, 06:24 PM:

Joe would be banging that gong more than Alex Van Halen on the 1984 Tour! But the lobby in his theater looks really nice!

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-24-2003, 06:56 PM:

Geez Joe,
Not every theatre, just the important ones......He'd just send you around to review the smaller locations...
Mark

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 01-25-2003, 12:52 PM:

How many movie theaters (screens) are there in the US?

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 01-25-2003, 01:14 PM:

At the end of of 2001, there were just under 35,000 indoor screens in the US, but I couldn't tell you how many theatres that covers. Also about 650 drive-in screens, or as Variety liked to call them, "ozoners".

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 01-25-2003, 01:35 PM:

NATO has on-line statistics:

http://www.natoonline.org/statistics.htm

They also publish an annual Encyclopedia of Exhibition:

http://www.natoonline.org/publications.htm#EofE