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Dustin Mitchell
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From: Mondovi, WI, USA
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 - posted 03-27-2001 05:03 PM      Profile for Dustin Mitchell   Email Dustin Mitchell   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Well, in Andrew's Drive-in thread terraserver was mentioned as a way to check out driv-in's across the country. Instead of clogging that thread I decided to start a new one for people to post the links to pictures of their homes and the theatres they work at.

My Theatre

The threatre is the wing jutting out of the mall at the top of the picture. The dark tinted roof is the 'old' side built in 1986 and the lighter roof is the 'new' side built in 1997.

Unfortunatley, my hous which is only about 20 miles south of the theatre has not been deemed important enough yet to earn a spot on terraserver.

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Ian Price
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 - posted 03-27-2001 05:23 PM      Profile for Ian Price   Email Ian Price   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Here is the aerial photo of our theatre in 1997. Our building is accross the road from the baseball diamond, directly through right field.

Rialto Cinemas Lakeside

Note the lake, hence the name Rialto Cinemas Lakeside. It used to be called the Park Cinemas. I wonder why they changed the name. We are accross from the best park I have seen outside of New York's Central Park or San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.


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John Pytlak
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This is fun!

Here is Loews Webster 12-Plex, which is a few miles from my home in Penfield NY. It is the large rectangular building, and was built on the site of the old Empire Drive-In. The light gray roof is over the original 8 (larger) auditoriums, the dark gray over the 4 smaller ones added a few years later:
Loews Webster-12

Here is the New Angola Theatre, the hardtop that I worked at from 1967-1970 (now closed ). It is the long building on the left hand side of the north-south Main Street in Angola, NY, about 200 metres north of the railroad tracks with the train moving by:
New Angola Theatre

Here is Lake Shore Central, in Angola NY, where I went to high school. The other famous alumni include Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning used in theatres:
Lake Shore Central High School, Angola NY
Profile of Willis Carrier

Too bad these photos are not "real time" --- they could be used to spy on how the competition is doing by seeing how many cars are in the parking lot.

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Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
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Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
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Scott Norwood
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 - posted 03-27-2001 09:35 PM      Profile for Scott Norwood   Author's Homepage   Email Scott Norwood   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The Terraserver rocks! I found the street on which a theatre where I used to work is located, but the theatre itself can barely be seen. Maybe in a few years, the resolution will be even better.

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Dick Vaughan
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Unfortunately Terraserver doesn't cover the UK but here is an aerial photograph 1997 vintage of our Museum and theatres.
CLICK HERE

The red circle sits on the building with the curved frontage that houses the main museum (prior to our 1999 rebuild) which includes the Imax theatre . The green trapezoid roof to the left is Pictureville Cinema(35/70mm,Cinerama). The two are now linked by the new extension which also houses the 100 seat Cubby Broccoli Cinema


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Brad Miller
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Before anyone else posts one of these incredibly LONG Terraserver links, P L E A S E read the "faq" halfway down the page titled "If you are linking to another website that has a long URL address".

Also, as this has nothing to do with theater management, I am moving this to the Yak forum.


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John Pytlak
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Kodak just announced formation of a Global Imaging Business to offer information derived from aerial images:
Kodak Global Imaging Press Release

Order Images On-Line

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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
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion


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Jerry Chase
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 - posted 03-28-2001 09:41 AM      Profile for Jerry Chase   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Chances of image improvement on terraserver are unlikely. I am doing some research and have purchased original aerial photos from the USGS. The photos are taken from heights of 13,000 feet or more. The ones I have were taken with a 152 mm lens back in 1960. Enlarging the images shows that the detail just isn't there. A tiny bit of improvement can be made using image enhancement, but not enough to give a clear image like you might get from 1,000 feet. Later images may benefit from improved film stock and lenses, but atmospheric distortion would still play a part.

What I find fun is taking the overlapping views and creating a hyper 3-D topographical image. Even small hills pop-out and look like giant moutains.

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