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Posted by Paul Goulet (Member # 297) on 05-25-2004, 08:21 AM:
 
It was announced in the Providence Journal that a company called "CINEMAWORLD" was going to build a movie theater at the Lincoln Mall in Lincoln, Rhode Island. Anyone ever hear of this company?

Paul Goulet
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 05-25-2004, 08:38 AM:
 
Joshua Waaland has, he used to work there, according to his last post in the Outing Bad Film-Handlers thread. Doesnt sound like too good of a company to me.
 

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Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 05-25-2004, 08:29 PM:
 
Yep! I worked for CW's only Florida location in West Melbourne. Lemme tell you, not a good company at all. Poor projection practices (and projectionists.) I got written up for stupid little things, and ended up getting fired for posting pics in the Picture Wearhouse without asking my GM first. He thought I was trying to go over his head or something. I can tell you that if I did not get fired, I would have left on my own real soon, as I was quite unhappy there.

The worst part about the whole thing is that about a month after I got fired, I heard from a manager at another theater a rumor -which was nowhere close to true - about why I got fired. I don't know who started the rumor, but the management should not have allowed it to continue. To this day it pisses me off, and that is why, among other reasons, I refuse to patronize that theater.

P.S. I searched for Joshua's post in the Outing Bad Film Handlers thread, but could find it. I even did a search for his name, and that thread came up, but I couldn't find his post. I'm curious.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 05-25-2004, 10:27 PM:
 
Ken, its on the second to the last page. Part of his post below:

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I used to work for Cinema World in my hometown when I was still in high school (90-94) and for a few years after. Cinema World.........hmmmmm.......how can I put this lightly....well they were very cheap! First we had substandard equipment to say the least. They built the theater 3 years before I started and installed a mishmosh of used equipment. 8 theaters and 4 different kinds of projectors, 5 different kinds of soundheads, 2-3 different kinds of sound systems, and 5-6 different kinds of automations. The automations were so bad we would have to open the cabinet every start to a show and turn the cams by hand to dim the lights. (I got shocked several times doing this). We eventually just started flipping the breaker off to avoid being shocked. There were also 4 different kinds of platters and everything was in dire need of maintenance. The platters were so bad that when you started the film you would have to race to the take-up platter to slow it so that the carriage would not hit the top of it's travel and break the film. I visited my buddy who still works there part-time 2 weeks ago and the projectors are in worse shape than ever. You probably couldn't even get scrap money for them.

I usually got stuck with the thursday night shift. At that time we were paid $4.25 an hour with no overtime pay. Our normal rotation required 4-5 movies changing weekly (we only had two theaters in town and we got a lot of bookings). So after the shift was over I would start moving the films (by myself), changing lenses, masking, aperature plates,(all manually) changing signs, breaking down the prints and building the prints for the next day. The platters and make-up tables left something to be desired. The were badly warped and had no constant tension. As a result the rewind jobs were generally crappy. Now I am a person who likes to take pride in doing a good job, but I had enough! I got so sick of being the last one there till 5-6 am and not having any help and having to jerry rig everything to get it to work because they would not send us parts! After that my performance went in the gutter. I didn't give a rat's who got the print after me! Chances were that I probably owed them one anyways for sending me one the same way!

Once I started working at Cinemark I thought to myself "Now this is the way that a projection booth is supposed to look". They had all newer equipment that was well taken care of and on a regular maintenance schedule. We had checklists every night of things to clean. All the equipment was the same. It was like heaven to me.

I am not proud of my performance then, but I was much younger and immature and I had enough of the cutting corners by Cinema World. Maybe some of the bad breakdowns are due to laziness (actually probably a large part) but some might be because of people in the same situation I was in. I don't know just a thought.

Josh

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Where is the CinemaWorld's in Mass

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