I was sent this site recently by a friend who found it. I was an usher/ticket taker at the 812 Cinema for several years in the early 70s. I then became a projectionist there and worked on the reconstruction of the building that would become the Dream Theater and documented a good portion of the progress on black and white film. I then became a projectionist at both theaters but only after running The Rocky Horror Picture show at the 812 Cinema a little under 1500 times over a period of almost two years. The representative of Twentieth Century Fox said he, nor anyone else at fox had ever seen a splicless copy of a one of their films that had a tenth of the showings of that particular print, and also the fact that it was as clear of spots, scratches etc.. as if it were a new print. I attribute this to the excellent training and attention to detail John Harris instilled in me. There are some inaccuracies in some of the posts about the theater. At one point there were actually two screens in the Dream Theater. And the 812 did not burn in the fire that took out several buildings next to it.
I was sent this site recently by a friend who found it. I was an usher/ticket taker at the 812 Cinema for several years in the early 70s. I then became a projectionist there and worked on the reconstruction of the building that would become the Dream Theater and documented a good portion of the progress on black and white film. I then became a projectionist at both theaters but only after running The Rocky Horror Picture show at the 812 Cinema a little under 1500 times over a period of almost two years. The representative of Twentieth Century Fox said he, nor anyone else at fox had ever seen a splicless copy of a one of their films that had a tenth of the showings of that particular print, and also the fact that it was as clear of spots, scratches etc.. as if it were a new print. I attribute this to the excellent training and attention to detail John Harris instilled in me. There are some inaccuracies in some of the posts about the theater. At one point there were actually two screens in the Dream Theater. And the 812 did not burn in the fire that took out several buildings next to it.