STUDIO MOVIE GRILL CITY CENTRE
Houston, TX

These projectors monitor the ticketing system and perform various tasks based off of the movie schedule. For example, each auditorium self-powers itself on 45 minutes before the first movie of each day...and if nobody buys a ticket to the last show of the day, it powers itself off 15 minutes after the last scheduled start time in that auditorium! (Of course the rooftop exhaust continues to run for another 10 minutes to protect the bulb.)

March 2009 photo from the Brad Miller / Josh Jones collection.