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Topic: One of my first booths gone....
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-12-2007 03:23 PM
Then again, it also depends on the size of the screen. When I first came to the Brooklyn Performing Arts Center, they were using two 16mm machines in a 2500 seat house -- but the screen was a postage size stamp in the middle of a 45ft proscenium. I think the lenses were 4in. But they were Eastman 25Bs with the Strong built carbon arc lamphouses, they did fine. But the first thing I did was convince them to install 35mm instead. We moved one of the Eastmans to the far left of the big booth and cut a new port for it, and then put in two Simplex in the existing two ports. Nice thing is, for them to ever go to video, they would really need one hell of an expensive video projector to fill the screen which is now full proscenium.
They don't have that kind of money. Barco is selling a three DLP chip projector, marketing it for "home" theatre, for $115,000.00 (isn't this what the theatrical machines cost?). If my GM ever starts talking about putting in digital so they can show DVDs, I'll just hand him the Barco literature on that home theatre projector and I'll circle the list price in big red magic marker. That will put a stop to all the "why not install digital" talk.
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