I just about choked when I saw the quote “The outcome was the purchase of a $90,000 Christie Solaria One digital projector and a $30,000 screen, making 3D possible”. As someone who sold and installed back in the day, the Solaria One, or even the One+, was at most a $35K projector and a 3D screen that it would be capable of filling would be about $10K.
We ran subrun double features. The joke was that you could guess this week’s co-feature by checking on what HBO was adding next week. It was more often than not, true.
The story that I was told as a young projectionist was that E.M.Loew had tried to buy the Empire and was rebuffed. He build the E.M.Loew Salem Theatre literally next door after which the Empire became the parking lot. This was located directly across from the old Salem YMCA.
I worked there in my younger days (early 80’s)as the fill-in projectionist on weekends or when the regular projectionist, Arthur Cornell, was ill or on vacation. The manager, Henry Goodman, was a former radio host who did his answering machine messages and preshow music in a radio show format. I would come in on Saturdays and Sundays for the matinee and start the preshow music at 12:00:00. His tape would end at 12:59:59. If I didn’t have the logo of the feature on screen at that time I would get “the phone call” from downstairs.
The projection booth had two mismatched Century C projectors, one of which had the wrong gate so it had to be threaded out of frame to start in frame, on top of RCA soundheads. Peerless Magnarc carbon arc lamphouses. I got my projectionist license in that booth.
Actually the equipment went to North Dakota where it will be installed next month. Most of the seats went to NH. We pulled the booth out the majority of the chairs in May. The remaining 153 chairs were pulled in July.
All of the equipment is now out of the buiding and what’s left is an empty shell.
Brian Vita, President
Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. www.cssinc.com
The theatre is now a four screen. Our company, Total Cinema Solutions LLC, turned the former game room/cafe into a small fourth screen.
I just about choked when I saw the quote “The outcome was the purchase of a $90,000 Christie Solaria One digital projector and a $30,000 screen, making 3D possible”. As someone who sold and installed back in the day, the Solaria One, or even the One+, was at most a $35K projector and a 3D screen that it would be capable of filling would be about $10K.
Theater closed in Jan 2019 https://explorebeaufortsc.com/end-of-an-era-beaufort-movie-theater-closed-for-business/
We ran subrun double features. The joke was that you could guess this week’s co-feature by checking on what HBO was adding next week. It was more often than not, true.
The story that I was told as a young projectionist was that E.M.Loew had tried to buy the Empire and was rebuffed. He build the E.M.Loew Salem Theatre literally next door after which the Empire became the parking lot. This was located directly across from the old Salem YMCA.
I worked there in my younger days (early 80’s)as the fill-in projectionist on weekends or when the regular projectionist, Arthur Cornell, was ill or on vacation. The manager, Henry Goodman, was a former radio host who did his answering machine messages and preshow music in a radio show format. I would come in on Saturdays and Sundays for the matinee and start the preshow music at 12:00:00. His tape would end at 12:59:59. If I didn’t have the logo of the feature on screen at that time I would get “the phone call” from downstairs.
The projection booth had two mismatched Century C projectors, one of which had the wrong gate so it had to be threaded out of frame to start in frame, on top of RCA soundheads. Peerless Magnarc carbon arc lamphouses. I got my projectionist license in that booth.
Actually the equipment went to North Dakota where it will be installed next month. Most of the seats went to NH. We pulled the booth out the majority of the chairs in May. The remaining 153 chairs were pulled in July.
All of the equipment is now out of the buiding and what’s left is an empty shell.
Brian Vita, President
Cinema Service & Supply, Inc.
www.cssinc.com