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Topic: outdoor showing
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Gary Crawford
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 979
From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 13, 2010 02:52 PM
I forgot to report on our outdoor poolside "dive in " movie that we had Sunday before last. We live in Virginia, near Washington, D.C. and had a few folks over and some film fan guests from Ohio staying for the weekend. We try and have an outdoor showing by our pool every Labor Day weekend when they come to visit. I had actually intended to show Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, but they requested instead, Dracula , Prince of Darkness ...the nice Derann scope feature. We have a 17 foot scope screen...( with black masking, etc..it comes to about 16 feet wide). We used to be only able to show 16mm due to brightness concerns..but with 1.Steve Osborne's ( the reel Image) fantastic screen paint on the screen and 2. an elmo gs with two blade shutter and great fuji lamp, and 3. the f1.0 prime lens with the Rectimascope lens....there was ample brightness for this classic Hammer film. We also showed some previews and the scope Disney cartoon, Bearly Asleep. There was one young lady there...must have been in her early to mid 20's ...who said she liked it..even though it was the oldest film she had ever seen. ( 1965?)... After my mouth was shut again, I thanked her for coming. She said maybe she'd seen some films from the 80's. All that classic stuff....lost on her. But the Hammer film held up very well .
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