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Topic: What is the best way to clean the screen?
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 03-31-2007 06:39 PM
There are professional procedures in doing screen cleaning and that is by hiring it done by qualified servicepeople.
But..it can be done by an individual who is careful enough to still get the job done and with excellent results.
In my experiences in cleaning screens is that it can be done by an individual, but have to be careful at the same time (and if you've got a silver screen, don't even think of it, just replace it with a standard screen) to ensure unnoticable conclusions afterwards.
First thing, if you got a screen brush, is to brush the entire screen to remove large amounts of dust and whatever is attached to the screen before doing any wet cleaning.
What I've done in the past is you have two, 5 gal buckets of warm water - one with a dash of dish soap in it and the other one as rinse water.
You then have a push broom head (new, or at least very clean) on an extention pole (since you need to reach the top of the screen) and a few bath towels that you can wrap over the head over the push broom.
(While, we are on the topic of screen cleaning, go behind the screen and see how many dust bunnies are clinging to the rear of the screen. And if you got quite the bunch, think how the sound is fighting through the dust bunnies to make that movie sound better - get rid of the dust bunnies before doing any wet screen cleaning...for if you don't get rid of the dust bunnies when doing your wet cleaning, you'll pull them bunnies through the screen holes and then you'll definitely have a good mess on your hands.)
You take one towel, soak it in the soap water and wrap it around the broom head. Then approach the screen at the top and do a wipe straight down and bring the head away from the screen. Then repeat the same process - don't go up and down, nor sideways, but just one downward direction only AND at a continual stroke speed and pressure. Do this on about 3 to 5 passes on the screen. After each third pass, take the towel, rinse it in the rinse bucket before returning it into the soap bucket for the next series of passes on the screen.
You'll be changing out the towels after awhile, why the numerous towels to have on store when cleaning screens.
Hope this helps - good luck ... Monte
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
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posted 04-05-2007 03:42 AM
quote:
1-Would ticket sales increase if a theatre did away with pre-show ads,
2-installed a curtain and then advertised the fact on its Marquee, Website, Box Office & Newspaper Ads.
(One thing I know from my days as an usher years ago: If you use leaf blowers to clean the auditorium between shows, they kick up a lot of crap on your screen).
Screen ads, (called "rolling stock" in this business nowdays) generates extra revenue no matter what the ticket sales are .. good or bad. One could call showing screen ads as a 'buffer zone' for the circuits or individual theatre to have that extra revenue coming in as straight profit.
Sadly, even though curtains look great, protects the screen and gives a nice touch to the house, curtains are such maintenance and upkeep hogs that for a complex to add curtains would be a massive money wasting liability these days.
Then, without screen ads on the screen, the idea of the advertisers not getting their ads being place more directly isn't in their best of mind either.
In this day and age of the theatre industry, it's the drive to continually to generate a profit each and every day since the cost of operating a circuit or indie theatre is not as cheap as it was in the 'good ol' days' as a bunch of us know it as.
(and yes, leaf blowers do blow quite a bit under the screen .. and behind it as well.. why custodials should be properly trained on how to use the blowers in where it can bypass the screen, or at least if junk goes under...please remove it ...)
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I actually walked into an auditorium which had a painter on a lift, almost done painting a 50 foot screen. I shook my head and talked to him about light loss and gain screens. The next day I stopped by, and he had taken it upon himself to paint it with textured ceiling paint with the little sparklies in it. Needless to say, he bought himself a nice shiny screen that day.
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! Program your automation for a curtain call or program it to close the curtain just before the film starts. Cloose it again at the end of the film as usual and then when the auditorium is clear open it and start the pre-show. It adds a nice little touch that people WILL notice!
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