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Topic: Curtains do you use them?
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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-09-2009 11:27 PM
The usual way to do this is to close the curtains on the last slide in the show, turn off the slide projector as the curtains touch, raise the footlights/curtain lights, wait for a minute or so, fade the non-sync music, dim the lights, and then start the show, with the curtain opening right when the picture starts.
At the end of the film, you close the curtains and bring up the footlights for a few minutes, then dim the footlights, open the curtains, and turn on the slides.
Some mid-1990s-vintage ex-General Cinema houses have a nice automation system that does all of this without operator intervention.
If you want to get fancy, you can close and re-open the main curtain between trailers and the feature.
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Bernie Anderson Jr
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From: Woodbridge, New Jersey
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 10-10-2009 08:43 AM
Although people complain that it can muffle the sound, the curtain should be closed when the image hits the screen then opens and should start to close before it goes off screen, ideally, when the changeover closes the curtain should finish its travel. This is a very old tradition going back to vaudeville Nickelodeon days and carried through for decades. Movies were just part of the vaudeville show and the managers treated them no different than any other act, using the curtain in between scenes. Radio city had two sets of curtains, as did most of the picture palaces. one being the main drape which went bottom to top and then in the music hall's case a set of movie sheers that were used primarily for dividing up the feature and the shorts and trailers which went side to side. I still use curtains when I can, I even have one in my screening room, but I most people don't understand why they're there in the first place. With the exception of a few, most people don't understand the history nor care. One theatre that still uses them for every show, but they're even automated is the Roxy Theatre - Northampton, PA
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