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Topic: Grain Elevator Movies!
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 07-30-2001 12:22 PM
For the past six or seven years HBO has sponsored Monday Night movies in Bryant Park. Located on 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. The movie begins at dusk and is free to everyone. All film is 35mm and is shown on a large screen on the 6th Avenue side of the park.In the getto areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx movies are shown against the side of building usually painted white. They are sponsored by the NYC Parks Department. There is no admission for the films and most of the films are donated for showing. I know this happened for several years. I don't know if they are doing it this year. I guess a grain elevator would make a reverse curve screen?
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John Pytlak
Film God
Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-30-2001 02:55 PM
Has anyone operated a drive-in theatre in conjunction with a shopping mall or other industry with a large parking lot that's not normally used later in the evening? Design the parking lot with properly sloped ramps, and project the film on the side of a large white-walled building with radio sound. Instead of drive-ins becoming parking lots and flea-markets, parking lots would now become drive-ins (at least at night). Multiple use of valuable land might be a way to bring drive-ins back into vogue, closer to population centers.------------------ 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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Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-01-2001 11:37 AM
On another note.... about using abandoned buildings as a screen for a drive-in, and the valuable land for drive-ins becoming developed....My wife & I just "closed" yesterday on a 12 acre parcel of land for our "new-build" drive-in theatre. It's in a rural area, but after doing some research of my own, I found out that the original drive-in for this town was located just a couple of miles down the road from where we intend to build. Of course the business that now occupies the old drive-in site is also out of business and abandoned as well. Makes you think...... ------------------ Barry Floyd Floyd Entertainment Group Nashville, Tennessee (Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)
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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-03-2001 12:52 AM
Bob Maar:Dockside movies at Hudson River Park! http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11546026/ I always thought that way too much of showing movies - letting the screen in & out, moving the speakers, humping the film up the balcony to the booth - was way too much like stevedoring, anyway!
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