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Topic: Belive it or Not (Theatre Recordings)
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 02-10-2000 03:25 AM
Its the Uptown Theatre in Napa, CA.After listening to this recording I have made the following observations: 1. the speaker is speaking in a pleasant, conversational (informational?) tone, and not rattling the movies off like an autioneer on crank. 2. Just about *everything* you wanted to know about the movie save for its synopsis and cast listing (what theatre its in, whether that auditorium is up or downstairs, running time IN MINUTES, rating, whether its part of a separate-admission split, starting times, yada yada yada. Very informative. 3. They admit that their upstairs auditoriums are not accessible by wheelchairs... Aside from the recording being unusally long due to the large amount of information offered, I could not find anything wrong with it. This theatre, for those not in the area is owned by the same circuit that formerly was the tenant of the Lakeside (Ian and Ky's 'new' theatre). Is there a point to this? regards,
Aaron
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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 02-10-2000 02:09 PM
Yes Aaron, your observations are quite correct. She has a pleasant voice and great delivery. That wasn't my point.It was the show times that got our attention. Cradle Will Rock plays @ 7:08
Galaxy Quest plays @ 4:12
Mansfield Park plays @ 2:26 & 4:43 Does anybody else do weird show times? We try to keep ours real straight up. We use whole numbers and integers and all that. We even stay away from times like 7:25 or 7:55. Some of the Uptown's show times are like ours and some just seem off the wall. I am just trying to figure out the rational for it. With the public as clueless as they seem to be by the few people who ask questions like "What time is the midnight movie?" Or who wander in a half an hour late and ask if it has started yet. And my all time favorite; when we show them the ad in the paper, they say "But my paper said it starts at this other time." Yes, lady. We have them print a special paper just for you, so we can mess with your mind.
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Scott D. Neff
Theatre Dork
Posts: 919
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 02-11-2000 01:10 PM
I make the recordings for all 10 of our theatres...Let me tell you... Thursday's are a chore. Each theatre's manager complains to me that their customers are requesting that I either slow down, speed up, not or do not say the running times. Some people want to know who's in the movie, other don't. You can't make everybody happy... although making stupid 7:21 showtimes is a little silly. I gotta go now - but I'll post more on this later when I feel like ranting.
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