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Sherburn theatre reopens
posted by
Michael Zoldessy
on
November 28, 2007 at 7:45 am
SHERBURN, MN — After half of year in darkness, the only theater in Sherburn returns.
The small town of Sherburn gets its movie theater back next week.
The town’s only movie theater was built in 1942 and had to shut down this spring because its projector could no longer show modern movies.
But the people of Sherburn missed their movies. They raised $33,000, enough to pay for a new projector, surround sound, and a new screen.
Read more at WKBT.
Comments (6)
“The town’s only movie theater was built in 1942 and had to shut down this spring because its projector could no longer show modern movies.”
Projector could no longer show modern movies. What a crock! 35mm picture standards are still the same. There would have been no need to replace the projector. The only changes that theater would have had to make is to install a red LED reverse scan reader in the soundhead in order to play “cyan dye” analog soundtracks. The price for the unit they need and installation by a theater tech would be less than $1,000. In fact they would not have needed to shut down for the installation of it. A good tech could have installed the reader in an hour or two
I would like to know if I can use loews gift certificates at amc tysons cinema being that they are merging?
Ken, the story doesn’t say what was wrong with the projector. I suppose it could have damaged in various ways, too.
Very impressive community effort.
What a great story.
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