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February 8, 2008
Dolby Processor about to pack it in
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We have a Dolby CP55 and 2 smart amps(TA-242). We’ve installed 87- 2 Bay Area CP rstr cyan analog readers- 2004
We’re looking for Dolby DA-20 with penthouse reader(s) or newer and 3 more amps and crossover if processor doesn’t provide it.
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February 7, 2008
Tribune Family Theatre to become community-owned
TRIBUNE, KS — The Tribune Family Theatre in Greeley County, Kansas, was recently awarded a Small Communities Improvement Program grant, and the theater itself is no longer for sale to individual parties. They are now working on plans to make some renovations and decide on a community-owned theater model. They have been researching other community-owned theaters in nearby communities.
If you would like to participate in these new changes, please contact the Greeley County Community Development Office at 620-376-2548. Thank you!
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Lebowsky Center may not need to change owners to use grant money for rebuilding.
OWOSSO, MI — A $380,000 grant, part of the Michigan Small Cities Initiative awarded to downtown Owosso, to help in rebuilding the Lebowsky Center originally was supposed to be made if the city or the Downtown Development Authority owned the theater instead of the Owosso Community Players. But the city requested and was granted a waiver so the OCP can continue to own the theater which was gutted and partially demolished after a fire last year. The grant will be used to help rebuild the walls and roof of the theater and construction is expected to begin in the spring.
Additional details from the Argus-Press.
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Capitol Theatre makes cameo in “Semi-Pro”
FLINT, MI – The new film Semi-Pro includes scenes filmed at the Capitol Theatre, as initially reported last May. The scenes include one of the theater’s front facade indicating that the movie Mother, Jugs and Speed is showing and a scene involving Will Ferrell, playing Flint Tropics owner Jackie Moon, in a dumpster alongside the alley side of the theater talking to Woody Harrelson playing Monix, one of the players on his team. Scenes involving the theater showing a closed circuit telecast of the Mega Bowl did not make the final cut on the film, but it could appear in a future DVD release of the film.
More information can be found in the Flint Journal.
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February 6, 2008
Amazing Grace slated as Fiske Theatre’s Feb Movie of the Month
OAK GROVE, LA — The Historic Fiske Theatre will feature the moving motion picture Amazing Grace, February 15-17 as this month’s Movie of the Month.Friday and Saturday night showings beginning at 7 p.m. and the Sunday matinee is at 2 p.m. The Sunday showing will be deemed “Church Day at the Fiske” where patrons will receive free popcorn with their church bulletin.
Amazing Grace is a inspiring film directed by Michael Apted about the campaign against the slave trade in 18th century Britain, led by famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the hymn “Amazing Grace” and the film also recounts John Newton’s writing of the hymn.
In publicity material the film is tagged “Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget."
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Theatre equipment for sale
I am helping out a theatre friend on this…Here’s a list, some with prices, some asking you to “make an offer.”
Several Simplex 35 and XL projector heads available. They each come with an IPC/Simplex soundhead (missing red readers). All work fine and He’s selling each combo (Projector head and Sound head) for $750.
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Will pay top money for old theatre sound equipment
WANTED: Cash paid for old amplifiers, speakers, horns, single drivers or pairs, Altec A7, A4, A5 515, 555 594 4181 4194 field Coil Speakers and drivers, Large Horns, pressure units, microphones, audio valves, tubes, crossovers, Altec, Klangfilm, RCA, jbl, Western Electric and Westrex, 124, 147, 1086A, 1086B, 515 drivers, TA Speakers, 91A, 10a, 9a 41,42,43 and all d spec units 618a, b, c transformers. All spare transformers, also McIntosh, Marantz, JBL or any other interesting equipment.
Condition is not important can be rusty and not working or missing parts. Cash paid on time of pick up, call 773-339-9035 or email.
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February 5, 2008
Booking question
A question about multiplexes: Does someone there know this?:
How does a large multiplex devise its movie-starting-times schedule? Seems like an intensive task, with a large number of screens and a 12-14 hour day.
Do they use a computer, a manually-adjusted chart, or what? If it’s a computer, what’s the program name?
Thanks very much.
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Growing Up at the Carthay Circle
LOS ANGELES, CA — Back in the day, which for me was the late ‘60s, when as a teen of driving age I began to tour every historic movie site in Lala, I had the opportunity to see, for the first time, Gone With The Wind in its fresh new Technicolor print, at the very famous, historic and absolutely entrancing Carthay Circle Theater.
Digression: Back then, and until it premiered for the first time on tv in the ‘80s, that film was touted as so important to MGM it was too big to ever grace the likes of the living room tube, and was only ceremoniously trotted out every 7-10 years or so for one more in a series of periodic road show runs at some fancy glamorous beautiful old theater in or near historic Hollywood. The chosen site for it in 1967 was Carthay Circle.
My memory of the theater, the only time I had the opportunity to be near it let alone step foot inside, was that it was the creme de la creme, bathed in beautiful soft light at what I remember was the cul-de-sac end of a rather beautiful and quiet residential street. The interior was not as memorable but vaguely beautiful, showing no hint of the threadbare end one would imagine would precede the death of a palace just two years later. The atmosphere of the place, the building, the quiet site, was everything I could have imagined in a historic movie palace. It reeked of the glamour of the past and, when I experienced it, the glamour of the present.
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Curtains and/or drapes wanted
We are a non profit organization looking for curtains and or drapes. Donations for tax write off very much welcomed but not a necessity…selling and buying prices negotiable.
Please contact us if you have any leads and or materials available.
Thank you!