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Topic: What Does Your Mulitplex Look Like?
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Andrew McCrea
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 645
From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-27-2000 06:13 PM
This is the experience you get! The screens are great, the seats are soooo comfortable, your rear doesn't scream at you during the show! It costs $24 million to build a 14 plex, so Famous Players keeps telling us!  This is one of the concession stands from an theatre. Some have a blimp flying over the concession stand. Others have light shows on top! it's really cool!  Aren't these cinemas cool? I LOVE THEM! What do you think of them? Andrew McCrea
I'll Be Back, Forums!
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Erik Schill
Film Handler
Posts: 38
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-27-2000 11:33 PM
our theatre is boring, just ugly carpet, lights that are always going out, some standees here and there, a few banners, a pathetic arcade. It just looks old, old and not kept up, even though it's only 3 years old, pretty sad huh?
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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-28-2000 12:14 AM
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but judging by the closeness of the front row to that huge screen, your NECK will be screaming pretty loudly!
Shortly after it was obvious that Talkies were here to stay, LOTS of theaters filled in the orchestra pits & added more rows of seating down front to increase capacity. Yes, we're talking just inches in front of the screen. So assuming the screen to be behind a proscenium about as deep as that apron-like platform in Andrew's photo, there'd be a row starting right behind that platfrom. And the bottom of the screen would be higher, too; maybe 4 or more feet above eye level. Folks wouldn't *usually* sit down there, of course, but if the movie's a big hit, you've got a ticket, & all the good seats are filled..where do you sit? It seems like usually if the front rows were filled, it was kids; usually the parents split up & sent the kids down front when seat selection got poor. "And we can keep an eye on them, if they're where we can see them down there." ------------------
William Hooper
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Dave Bird
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 777
From: Perth, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 12-28-2000 08:06 AM
Paul: That would've been a really cool setup,
the lucky folks would be the ones there when it came time to thread.I think most of the Famous plexes look like this, a video arcade. I wish they were building them like the Granada Movie Grill Prestonwood (pix available here on Film-Tech). It evokes the glamour theatres should have. Also, those "down front" rows are obviously to pad the house allowance, no? One thing I find at the local Famous plex, is that even halfway back, screens too big, you have to move your head like a tennis match to see the movie. They are clean, picture is good, just doesn't have that theatre feel...... Suggested reading: The Last Remaining Seats - BERGER & CONSER
The American Drive-In Movie Theater - SANDERS
Ticket To Paradise (American Movie Theatres and How We Had Fun) - MARGOLIES
Drive-In Movie Memories - SANDERS
The Show Starts On The Sidewalk - VALENTINE
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John Pytlak
Film God
Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 12-28-2000 08:55 AM
Andrew: The pixels, "jaggies", and lack of true resolution in current digital cinema projectors would make those seats close to the screen intolerable. Digital Cinema looks pretty good, IF you can sit further from the screen.------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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Jeff Newman
Film Handler
Posts: 14
From: Fenton, MO, USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-29-2001 01:34 PM
Hi All,I work at the Ronnies 20 Cinema (Wehrenberg theatre in St. Louis MO) which was previously the Ronnies 8, which was previously a Drive-in. Anyway, the theatre is relativly new, and inside the lobby, they decided to Re-create the drive-in expierience. Pictures of the theatre can be found here:
http://arri.dyndns.org/~jeff/ronindex2.html The projector shown is the glass-encased projector that shows the lobby drive-in stuff. Mostly trailors, and the rare drive-in trailors (dancing hot dog etc..) Some of the pictures are not the best, (sorry) but you can even see a picture of the wonderful bowlingo game! Like I said, sorry for the quality of some of the pictures, Hope you like them! -Jeff "Box office god" Newman :-)
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