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Pasquale DAlessio
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From: Bristol,RI, USA
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- posted July 22, 2013 09:10 AM      Profile for Pasquale DAlessio     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
My town is starting this this week. No, I'm not the one running them but I am going to find out who it is. Imagine a film enthusiast in town and I don't know it?
Some of the titles are:Toy Story 2, Tangled, Monsters Inc, Wreck-It Ralph, A bugs Life, and UP. Great family fun.

https://www.facebook.com/MoviesInTheParkByTheBristolEdc?hc_location=timeline

PatD

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 22, 2013 10:11 AM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Interesting Pat, do you know if this will be film or digital?

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Pasquale DAlessio
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- posted July 22, 2013 10:17 AM      Profile for Pasquale DAlessio     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hi Rob

Interesting thought. I automatically thought film. Can't imagine why? But it probably will be digital. [Frown]

Now I'm not so excited [Confused]

But I will go check it out anyway just in case. [Wink]

PatD

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 22, 2013 10:57 AM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Automatically thinking film, Pat, I think it's because we are a certain age. I would naturally think film as well. I was probably watching digital on my last 3 or 4 trips to the cinema and never noticed. Next time I will look out for cue marks and the odd scratch.

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 22, 2013 11:13 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
We have this here every summer.

They take a beach parking lot and it becomes a Drive In Theater a couple of Friday nights..

Digital of course, but who except for us really cares?

You really can't blame the guy at the controls, either. Let's face it, operating two projectors with changeovers requires a level of alertness that makes this real work. (Not to mention hauling a 16mm feature and supporting programs out to the beach.) We do it because we enjoy it, but he's there just to do a job and go home.

People who do caligraphy do it for the satisfaction: everybody else just uses a laser printer and nice looking fonts.

The theater we most commonly attend is maybe three years old. If they have even one 35mm equipped autitorium in there I'd be really surprised. About a mile away was one that never went Digital: they're building a department store where it was now.

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 22, 2013 12:52 PM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
At least it enables people to enjoy a movie in the open air.

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 22, 2013 01:00 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
-absolutely,

They get chance to get out of the house and enjoy the weather before Winter closes in once again.

You learn from watching stuff like this that some things are more complicated than you'd guess.

For example getting 20 foot screen to stand still when the offshore breezes think otherwise!

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 22, 2013 01:41 PM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Steve, these posts reminded me of how much things have changed. My favourite cinema in Oxford almost burned down around 1962. The fire was blamed on a cigarette dropped on the carpet. I can't be sure, but I think smoking was not allowed when the cinema re-opened months later, looking just as good as ever.

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 22, 2013 02:27 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It's a succession:

A couple of years before we moved to our house there was a single screen theater we could have walked to if we wanted and a drive-in maybe 3 miles away.

Couple of years later it's a 16 screen multiplex maybe 5 miles away and both of the others are gone.

Fast forward to today and it's a thirty screen multiplex in a shopping mall about 10 miles away and the 16 screen character is now a construction site. (The "cinema" sign is still standing out on the road, I keep telling my wife we should grab it for next to our driveway!)

At this rate within my lifetime there will be one theater in the USA: 2,500 screens, somewhere in Kansas.

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 22, 2013 02:38 PM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
In a town 3 miles from me, the 1930s built cinema closed down, then it was briefly reopened for private showings. An application was made to reopen the cinema permanently, the application was turned down, the cinema demolished, and flats built on the site. Soon after the council was talking about wanting to build a cinema on a green field site. so far nothing has materialised.

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Graham Ritchie
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- posted July 22, 2013 09:22 PM      Profile for Graham Ritchie   Email Graham Ritchie   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Pat

It could be film as the titles are old "cheap to rent" hope so, "UP" is brilliant dont miss that one, and it has a nice little bit right at the start which is so true to life.

Graham.

PS. I like the way they are using "Facebook" to advertise it, if they dont mind can some photos of the event especially the projector [Smile] be added into there Facebook page afterwards?

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Paul Adsett
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- posted July 22, 2013 11:48 PM      Profile for Paul Adsett     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
One thing that certainly has improved since I went to the cinema as a boy, is that now, at least in Florida, smoking is prohibited in all cinemas, indeed in all public places. I remember going to the Odeon in Cardiff as a 14 year old and it was like walking into a thick fog - a wonder that the projector beam ever reached the screen! [Big Grin]

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 23, 2013 04:35 AM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Some of my earliest memories of going to the cinema were having to sit on my father's knee; although I had my own seat , the one in front was always filled by an adult who blocked my view. Can just about remember watching a film in 3D with the red/cyan glasses, it might have been 'Bwana Devil' or 'Hondo'.

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Lee Mannering
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- posted July 23, 2013 05:22 AM      Profile for Lee Mannering     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Any other Brits who go camping take a projector and films like me with them I wonder?

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 23, 2013 05:29 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I know an American that does: me!

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Robert Crewdson
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- posted July 23, 2013 06:46 AM      Profile for Robert Crewdson     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Where do you get the power to run it?

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 23, 2013 07:58 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Well,

There is camping and then there is camping.

Sometimes I go tenting, and once a few years ago my son and I camped on a lakeshore via canoe. The closest electric power was at least a mile away. (There were no films that night.)

With my wife along the favored mode is in a trailer (caravan), and this usually means a commercial campground with hookups for city water and electricity.

Some people have motorhomes with generators, sattelite dishes, HD flatscreens and blu-ray players.

As I said: There is camping and then there is camping.

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Graham Ritchie
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- posted July 23, 2013 04:39 PM      Profile for Graham Ritchie   Email Graham Ritchie   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
...Generators, Sattelite dishes, HD flatscreens, blu-ray players [Big Grin]
Thats what I call getting away from it all [Big Grin]

Graham.

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 23, 2013 05:48 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Different strokes for different folks I guess,

Most of the people that do this are retired and travel becomes their lifestyle. It's less a home a way from home and more just plain old home.

-a lot of 'em have a mailing address with their kids and just follow the seasons!

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Hugh Thompson Scott
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- posted July 23, 2013 06:46 PM      Profile for Hugh Thompson Scott   Email Hugh Thompson Scott       Edit/Delete Post 
Steve, the last rough sleeping I did was with my mate, back in
the late '70s at the Reading Rock Concert, complete with afghan
coat, cowboy boots and sheath knife,
Now, my idea of of sleeping rough is in less than a 4 star hotel.

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