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September 14, 2007
2007/2008 Movie Series at the Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre in Albany, NY has announced it’s 2007/2008 Classic Movie Series.
On September 17th, The Palace will be showing Gone With The Wind at 7 PM. Admission is $5.
On September 20th, The Palace will be showing Mr. Smith Goes To Washington at 7:15 PM. Admission for this movie is free.
On October 1st, The Palace will be showing the 1931 horror classic Frankenstein at 7 PM. Admission is $5.The full schedule is available on their website www.palacealbany.com or by clicking here.
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September 13, 2007
New NC Theater book
“Big Time for a Dime”
History of silver screen in the Catawba Valley of NC, 2007, by Don Barker incls 90 theaters, some closed, some open. Will be published in Fall of 2007.
story here…
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Miami Planetarium needs American Seating parts
We’ve been in constant operation since 1966 with thousands of kids coming through every summer. We are in need of parts to repair our old seats and cant seem to find them. Some parts have been successfully welded but its not always the case.
We have American Seating model 16-306 planetarium seats (the back rest can be bolted down in a reclining position). We are looking for model 16-10? standards and endcaps. Color is not important as we can paint to match.
Pictures of our seats can be provided on request if it will help.
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Loud previews disturb patrons, hurt exhibitors
Almost everyone has experienced excessively loud trailers before the feature. There have been concerted efforts at NATO conventions to correct this perpetual problem. Still, probably every cinema in the world continues to receive extra loud previews. The consequences include frustrated patrons finding yet another reason to give up on movie-going and theater managers time and again fielding hostile complaints. Despite posting a projectionist/staff person in the booth to adjust the sound, down for trailer & up for feature, the likelihood a picture in a multiplex will be off at the start or even during the meat of the show is unacceptably high.
We all know television commercials are generally louder than television programs. This is not as obnoxious because remote controls facilitate tweaking the sound level. Heck, my saintly elderly mom just mutes the darn ads.
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September 12, 2007
Manhattan loses Times Square icon
NEW YORK, NY — The Playpen may have had more theater incarnations than any cinema in town, but apparently that’s not enough to keep it going. The changing trends of Times Square will almost certainly soon demolish the building.
The homogenization of the Times Square area (yes, The Times has contributed to the phenomenon with its new headquarters opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal) has claimed another quirky victim: the Playpen, a former cinema that closed recently after 90-odd years.
Very odd years.
What Eighth Avenue will lose with its disappearance is more than an adults-only emporium with suggestive neon come-ons — “Live Girls,” “Preview Booths,” “Leather & Lace.” It will lose the last home of the Funny Store, an almost vaudevillian novelty shop. It will lose one of the most distinctive facades of any surviving theater from the early 20th century, a kind of heroic Palladian composition. And will lose a three-dimensional history lesson in the evolution of Times Square.
The rest along with the history of the structure over its changing years is in the New York Times.
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The inevitable theater comeback
Just when you thought it was safe to forget about those laughable 1950’s theater experiments, Smellovision returns.
Megan Dickerson is reviving the idea of Smellovision — a concept developed 50 years ago that never caught on.
The idea is enhance the viewing experience for an audience by circulating smells that go with what’s happening on the screen.
Dickerson has developed a scent filled show of Willy Wonka, and staged it for hundreds of people in the Boston area.
Read the full story at Eyewitness News WPRI.
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Loan Request for Beach Theatre approved!
CAPE MAY, NJ — Activists have fought to save from demolition New Jersey’s Beach Theatre. It was built in 1950 in a Neocolonial revival style.
At a special meeting on Friday, September 7, 2007, the town of Cape May presented a $100,000 check to the Beach Theatre Foundation, as a loan to keep the theater open while fundraising continues!
Read more at NBC 40.
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September 11, 2007
Live Theater for sale $229,000
Looking for a theater that could be converted into a cinema? This could be it.
Tourist town, lakes, resorts, great attendance
2 stages, each seat 100
Only game in town – growing fast
NEW FAMILY = NO TIME!!!
All sale info at: Long Lake Theater
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Theaters at sea
A contact of mine, with the retired ship RMS Queen Mary berthed here in Long Beach, California, has sent me a most interesting article about the newest British luxury liner still under construction.
Already in service is the RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Mary 2, bigger and glitzier than all of the others put together! I now refer to the RMS Queen Victoria now in her finishing stages with a maiden voyage set for December ‘07.
Permission to name the new ship was granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
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Alhambra Cinema Theatre to be restored to live theatre
DUNFERMLINE, FIFE, SCOTLAND — The Alhambra has been bought by developers who intend restoring this astonishingly well preserved Cinema Theatre back to its former glory as a live theatre.
Read more at the Dunfermline Press.
There also is a new website for this theatre with some photos of the interior here.