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Author Topic: ND Carmike loses 20 lenses to theft Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-20-2006 12:21 AM                       You know how expense camera lenses are... Link to story Theater theft delays Da Vinci showing By Lisa Davis Herald Staff Writer The theft of 20 lenses from projection cameras at the Carmike Cinema in Grand Forks forced the theater to close today, just as customers were lined up to see the controversial new movie, "The Da Vinci Code." Police were called about 4 p.m. to the movie theater. They found no evidence of forced entry and continue to investigate the theft. Moviegoers were turned away at the ticket counter and a sign on the door announced that the theater was closed. But the movie still is being shown, according to Carmike, at the nearby Columbia 4 Theater. One showing started at 7 p.m. and additional show times will be 8:45, 10 and 11:40 tonight. Protestors with signs against the movie were gathered outside the Carmike Cinema as the scene unfolded. Catholic and other Christian groups say the movie is anti-Catholic and disrespectful to Christians. Police are asking for tips regarding the theft. Call Grand Forks Police at (701) 787-8000 or Crimestoppers at (701) 746-1000.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 05-20-2006 12:38 AM                        Interesting that the exact single item that would kill a show, most easily removed from the projector was taken... On the other hand... at the drive-in demo, we found out how much the lenses for the digital cinema projectors were going to cost. Hmmmmmmmm.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-20-2006 06:08 AM                  I'm looking for a 45mm lens for 35mm film projection... Please contact me via email if you have one for sale CHEAP! All serial numbers held in strict confidence!  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-20-2006 10:03 AM                     Phil:  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-20-2006 11:39 AM                    quote: Tim Reed projection cameras Hmmmmm I have never seen one of these before. What do you do take the picture and project it with the same device.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-20-2006 03:52 PM                     Perhaps some of the protestors have an insider with access to the booth. Maybe they see this more as a prank and the lenses will be left on the sidewalk just before showtime in a few days.  |  IP: Logged Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 05-21-2006 09:55 PM                        This could be a great step forward for presentation at this theater. Maybe they will move up from the B&L's they were likely using to something cutting edge..... maybe Kolmorgen? Carmike.... Its all about quality presentation (at least in ND) Steve  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-23-2006 05:24 PM                     Assuming it's the Carmike 10, that would most likely suggest Christie heads. Probably pretty valuable to someone with Christies but I can't imagine who else.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-24-2006 10:47 PM                     This sounds like a disgruntled employee to me...  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-25-2006 01:30 AM                     The theatre was originally built by Midco, I'm not sure what projectors they have. Something makes me want to say Simplex but I don't know.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-25-2006 09:50 PM                        I read somewhere that the show went on at the older Carmike 4-plex in town. I like to think that the manager of the old theatre went in and stole the lenses so his bonus would shoot through the roof. If Carmike pays bonusses? *shrug*  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-26-2006 08:36 AM                       quote: Darryl Spicer Hmmmmm I have never seen one of these before. What do you do take the picture and project it with the same device. I suppose so! This used to kill me, when I was a projectionist at drive-ins in the 70s... I'd be standing outside the booth and someone would walk by and, after a cursory glance in the door, say, "Do you run those cameras?" And this, back when home movies (film) were still commonplace in suburbia and people should've known better!  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 05-28-2006 09:33 PM                     When I read the report of the theft of 20 lenses, I remembered a prank played by the boys of the Audio-Visual Squad on the A-V Coordinator, an elderly physics teacher in a high school where I taught. They removed the lenses from all the 16mm projectors and hid them in the pockets of his lab coats. But perhaps the theatre theft wasn't a prank. I worked a 14-plex that lost 34 surround speakers during a weekend. Must've required teamwork, a truck, and inside help--hardly a prank.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-29-2006 03:40 PM                        Yeah - but speakers can be accessed easily in a theatre where the staff doesn't check the doors every night, or by hiding behind a screen. When I was 17 and first started in the business, I worked FOREVER to figure out why the surrounds weren't working, and finally went down to check the wiring and discovered somebody had stolen the speakers... god only knows how long before I started working there!!! Lenses are usually behind a locked door in the booth, and I thought I read somewhere that there was no evidence of forced entry.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-29-2006 07:38 PM                     Surrounds are typically installed higher than a window or doorknob. I'd go for the subs first!! quote: Scott D. Neff When I was 17 and first started in the business, I worked FOREVER to figure out why the surrounds weren't working, and finally went down to check the wiring and discovered somebody had stolen the speakers FOREVER???? HEHE, smart ass comment deleted.  |  IP: Logged

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