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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

Posts: 287
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

- posted 02-08-2000 11:05 PM      Profile for Jon Bartow   Email Jon Bartow   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
*sigh* The owners of my company decided to have midnight showings of said film on Friday and Saturday nights. Now, because the theater where this is taking place does not have adequate staff I am operating the booth on Fridays and Saturdays. This last weekend was the first. Fortunately the crowd didn't do any damage. But it took the two janitors two hours to clean the theater. I'm so worried that I'll go in the theater after the film and find a wet (or torn) screen busted speakers. Or, ever worse, that all of those burning newspapers and lighters will set off the sprinklers.
Someone please tell me why I agreed to this insanity?
Oh yeah, due to Christie being the worst people for actually filling orders on time one of the decks on the AW3-R is waiting for a density disk. Unfortunatley, Green Mile is running during the day. Thank God that it is possible to run 35mm with one film stacked on top of the other.

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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

- posted 02-08-2000 11:25 PM      Profile for Ken Layton   Email Ken Layton   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The Olympia (Wash.) fire dept. would never let us have anyone strike a match or flick a lighter for Rocky Horror without closing us down. One lady sued us for allowing someone in with a water pistol filled with ink which got squirted onto her clothes. She took us to small claims court (and won) and we had to pay for replacing her coat.

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

- posted 02-09-2000 12:12 AM      Profile for Aaron Sisemore   Email Aaron Sisemore   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
If you are having real problems and real damage from your RHPS crowds, you might have to become the "big asshole" and ban any items outside of rice and confetti. Its perfectly OK to search bags (once again this is a requirement by some fire marshalls) and tell em that they just cant have the contraband items in the show... Most dont get too upset... Good way to keep the alcohol and bottles out too...

Aaron

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

- posted 02-09-2000 03:58 PM      Profile for Tim Reed   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It only takes them TWO hours to clean up after Rocky Horror?!??!! In the seventies when I used to run this, we'd come in the next day to open for the matinee, and the janitors would just be leaving! :O

Your theatre running a film you wish it wouldn't? My brother, while working a porno house, objected to the cladestine midnight showings of hardcore gay films, so he called the police on himself! They raided the theatre and shut down the midnight shows. It returned to standard smut in record time!

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Jim Bedford
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 597
From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99

- posted 02-09-2000 04:13 PM      Profile for Jim Bedford   Author's Homepage   Email Jim Bedford   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Ditto to all the above. I'm still finding rice and the occasional piece of toast. It's not worth it for the damage and cleanup aspects alone.

But the real thing we all want to know is how was the print?

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Chris Erwin
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 195
From: Olive Hill,KY
Registered: Oct 1999

- posted 02-09-2000 05:45 PM      Profile for Chris Erwin   Email Chris Erwin   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
There was talk of running it where I work. A group wanted to show it as a fund raiser.

Damage deposit scared them off.

You gotta do what you gotta do.

--Chris


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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

- posted 02-09-2000 06:14 PM      Profile for Scott Norwood   Author's Homepage   Email Scott Norwood   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Am I the only one who enjoyed running RHPS? Our manager gave a quick pre-show speech to the effect of "don't throw stuff at the screen and don't throw stuff at the [glass] light fixtures on the side walls" and we didn't have any problems with damage. It did take about ten of us at least a few hours to do the cleanup and we continued to find grains of rice for several months afterward.

If anyone is interested, I have a killer 10-minute trailer/short/cartoon reel that's great for showing with RHPS or similar films...I'd be happy to loan this to anyone who wants it and will be reasonably accommodating (don't run it on platters, don't blame me if you get sued for copyright violations, etc.). Anyone who's interested should email me privately.

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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

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From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

- posted 02-09-2000 09:28 PM      Profile for Jon Bartow   Email Jon Bartow   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
To answer your question about the print. It is in remarkably good shape. Aside from a few small scratches no damage. No missing footage, no sprocket hole damage. It would be a prime canidate for FilmGuard (If I could convince the owner to go for it)

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

- posted 02-10-2000 08:11 AM      Profile for Scott Norwood   Author's Homepage   Email Scott Norwood   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Does it have the new SR track or is it mono? We had one once that was only about a year old and was in mint condition (never plattered and run only at one theatre), complete with SR track and on ESTAR-base stock.

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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

- posted 02-10-2000 09:56 AM      Profile for Bruce McGee   Email Bruce McGee   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hey Tim,
Whats the difference between "standard smut" and gay "standard smut?"

If your town has laws allowing the police to raid a theater then they should not be allowed to run any smut, gay or straight.

Our local laws have anti-porn rules, too. The local police only come down on films in the "art" house that are "gay themed"

I wonder how many peoples lives were ruined when the big bust happened in the theater? In this town, they print names in the paper.

I say that everyone should be treated equally.

There should be no double standard.
Smut is smut.

So what were the patrons in the gay flicks doing that the straight folks were not doing?

This is not a subject that I talk about very often. Everyone is different and no single "group" should be singled out...

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Colin Wiseley
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 123
From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999

- posted 02-10-2000 12:08 PM      Profile for Colin Wiseley   Email Colin Wiseley   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
We show Rocky Horror every year on Halloween weekend, and usually one weekend in the spring too. It always sells out. There's a student group at VA Tech that sponsors it and they do a live stage show while the movie is running. They also stay to clean up afterwards which usually takes about an hour with 10 people or so.

The damage to the theater is minimal since everyone is padded down before they are allowed in. They are limited to small water guns, rice and toast.

We are showing Rocky again on Mar 31 and Apr 1 at midnight so if you're in the area drop by.

www.thelyric.com

Colin Wiseley
Lyric Theatre
Blacksburg VA

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Andy Davis
Film Handler

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From: Gainesville, FL
Registered: Dec 1999

- posted 02-10-2000 03:16 PM      Profile for Andy Davis   Author's Homepage   Email Andy Davis   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The police in my hometown of Sarasota, FL had the honor of busting Pee-Wee Herman and destroying his carreer.

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Joe Grace
Film Handler

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From: Maine
Registered: Feb 2000

- posted 02-10-2000 05:33 PM      Profile for Joe Grace   Email Joe Grace   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Were they really burning newspapers? Why is the theater that bad? Is it just the crowd that it is atracting or does it have something to do with the movie? I havent seen the movie, and now I dont know if I want to if people are burning stuff in the theater.


J

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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

- posted 02-10-2000 06:17 PM      Profile for Bruce McGee   Email Bruce McGee   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Did anybody actually think that this movie would still be going and affecting people the way it has?

I saw it in 1975 and was kind-of glad when it was over. There were about 20 people there.

No dancing, water, toilet paper rolls...

The tunes were the best part.

I am dumbfounded.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

- posted 02-11-2000 06:42 AM      Profile for John Pytlak   Author's Homepage   Email John Pytlak   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The web has quite a few "Rocky" sites. Here is one of the many with a line-by-line audience script:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/~bigfish/rocky.html

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Worldwide Technical Services, Professional Motion Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
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