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Posted by Mike Fitzgerald (Member # 1304) on 02-11-2004, 02:44 PM:
 
I am looking for a listing of any movie theaters that are either university operated or leased out by the university or any combination of the two for a research project that I am working on. Thanks in advance
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-11-2004, 04:26 PM:
 
My job inludes managing the projection booth at Mercyhurst College.

Our Performing Arts Center is a multi-purpose stage/screen venue owned and operated by the college. We will show 31 Films and will have put on more than 20 other events by the end of this school year. (Not including academic events/lectures.)

Although many of our events are geared toward the academic community, most of them are open to the public. Our film series has actually gained quite a following as the "Place to See Movies" that don't show at the local Cinema Googolplex.
 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 02-11-2004, 05:21 PM:
 
Wexner Center for the Arts
The Ohio State University
1871 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1393
614 292-3535

Administrative Offices 614 292-0330

One of the Film Curators is Dave Filipi.
Projectionist (and a very very good one) is Bruce Bartoo.

website: www.wexarts.org

Theatre is a weirdly shaped room with about 300 seats. Booth has excellent equipment, including video projection and 2 Kinoton 16/35/70mm projectors.
 

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Posted by Mark Huff (Member # 480) on 02-11-2004, 05:54 PM:
 
I think there is one in Denver,CO
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-11-2004, 05:58 PM:
 
UCLA James Bridges Theater home of the UCLA film & TV archives

USC Eileen Norris Theater

CSULB Karen & Richard Carpenter Performing Arts Center home of the Widescreen Film Festival
 

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Posted by Jonathan M. Crist (Member # 413) on 02-11-2004, 11:34 PM:
 
Last year Gettysburg College in Gettysburg PA bought the historic theatre in downtown Gettysburg which had been triplexed in the 80's. I understand that later this year the college will take it back from the current operator and convert back into a single screen performing arts center.

I believe that Bucknell University owns the historic Campus Theatre in Lewisburg Pennsylvania which I understand that they lease to one of their college professors who operates the place as a sort of cinema grill.
 

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Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 02-12-2004, 02:23 AM:
 
If you are extending your project beyond North America there is a listing of UK Student film societies at the following link

http://www.filmsoc.warwick.ac.uk/?Page=societies
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-12-2004, 06:09 AM:
 
And although ours is not student-run, the university in which our archive is based also operates a fully equipped cinema which runs shows twice a week (one mainstream and one arthouse night), of which I am the licensee. Programming is done by an events management company and the shows are open to the public as well as students.
 

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Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 02-12-2004, 06:12 AM:
 
pacific film archive
harvard film archive
 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 02-12-2004, 06:22 AM:
 
I forgot Kara McVey's theatre in Delaware, The Strand. It is owned by Ohio Wesleyan University. She used to post here, but I haven't seen her around for awhile.

Strand Theatre
28 E Winter St
Delaware, OH 43015
740-363-4914

I think there is a theatre in Athens, OH that is owned by Ohio University, but I'm not sure.
 

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Posted by Roger Katz (Member # 1625) on 02-12-2004, 06:46 AM:
 
Cinestudio is on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 02-12-2004, 07:59 AM:
 
One of the finest campus cinema programs in the USA is the Cornell Cinema, which operates out of Willard Straight Hall on the (truly beautiful) Cornell University campus high above Cayuga's waters in Ithaca, New York.

http://cinema.cornell.edu
 

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Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 02-12-2004, 10:10 AM:
 
Hopkins Center Film at Dartmouth: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hop/Pages/Film/movies_general.html

U of Colorado/Denver and the Denver Film Center: http://www.starzfilmcenter.com/

NC School of the Arts has an impressive archive and new theatre: http://mis15.ncarts.edu/film/
 

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Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 02-12-2004, 10:57 AM:
 
I'm not sure about this one; the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii has an IMAX. This is located on the same block as BYU Hawaii, and when I went there it seemed like the whole place including the IMAX was run by those college students.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 02-12-2004, 11:31 AM:
 
Just wondering, do university cinemas normally do well? Does it depend on whether it is university owned, or just located on the the university, but independently owned. The university here does not have a theater, and I was wondering, if it had one, would it do any business?
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 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!
 

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Posted by Peter Castle (Member # 1997) on 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).
 

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Posted by Gunnar Johansson (Member # 1661) on 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
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 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.
 

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Posted by Kara J. McVay (Member # 1285) on 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.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 02-14-2004, 01:53 AM:
 
OWU owns you?
 

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 02-14-2004, 02:24 PM:
 
How about everyone chip in and buy her?
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-14-2004, 08:47 PM:
 
Kara I installed that theatre in a very tiring weekend along with Jim Wright and Bob Throop
 

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Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 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
 

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Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 02-18-2004, 07:07 PM:
 

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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.

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MIT has 3 venues with 35mm capability

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26-100, 10-250, and...?

carl
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 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.
 

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Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 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
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-18-2004, 10:19 PM:
 
Well, then, I date myself.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 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
 

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Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 06-20-2004, 05:34 PM:
 
The IMAX theatre here in Tallahassee, FL (Challenger Learning Center) is operated and funded jointly by Florida State University and Florida A&M.

Challenger Learning Center
 

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Posted by Daniel Alt (Member # 2303) on 06-21-2004, 05:35 PM:
 
The Case Western Reserve University Film Society, where I project, runs two films a week during the school year. (late August - May) We generally show second run mainstream and arthouse films, with some classics thrown in.

We have a nice room, a 540 seat hall with the improbable name of "Strosacker Auditorium". The equipment is in pretty good shape, a pair of Century JJs. (I don't remember the sound specs off the top of my head, but we're in the midst of upgrading them anyway.)

However, business is waaaay off from when i was an undergrad. When I was a student (early 90's), we'd consistently get several hundred people for a recent movie. Now we're lucky if we get that many people in a MONTH.

I attribute the drop off to two things; the internet, which sucks people into their rooms, and cable TV, which sucks people into their dorms. If you wanted to see a movie 10 years ago, you had to either go to a theater (none near campus) or rent it. (no video stores near campus) Our big ass screen had the advantage, and our ticket prices were and still are dirt cheap. And there wasn't much else to do. CWRU will never make Playboys list of party schools, that's for sure.

Now people download movies from the net, or just spend their evenings surfing and playing MMRPGs. But we hang in there. Our annual Science Fiction Marathon is still a big draw.

And if anyone starts putting out 70mm again... we're still equipped for it.

Web Site: CWRU Film Society
 

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Posted by Mike Fitzgerald (Member # 1304) on 06-21-2004, 07:16 PM:
 
The list just keeps getting longer and longer. The University I had been talking to had bought a closed UA 6 plex that is fuilly equipped. They have a film dept at the university so I was trying to discuss the option of the school running the 6 plex. The answer I got back from the school was that when they bought the property they signed a non- compete clause so for 5 years they can use the cinema as a cinema. Go figure huh
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-23-2004, 02:39 AM:
 

quote: Daniel Alt

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However, business is waaaay off from when i was an undergrad. When I was a student (early 90's), we'd consistently get several hundred people for a recent movie. Now we're lucky if we get that many people in a MONTH.

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