Steve Klare
Film Guy
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 07, 2014 10:03 AM
You're a lucky guy!
Our house entered the picture while I was at a pretty low level of film presentation (maybe twice a year, silent) and I was thinking in terms of a projection booth in my home about as much as a ski lift or a helipad.
The best place in our house to project film is the living room and dining room area, and I've actually managed to put together a pretty decent setup, but short of moving the dining room table to the basement, I'll never have a booth while we're living here.
It doesn't stop me from thinking about it, though.
Being that I'm usually the entire audience, I imagine I'd need to account for that in designing a booth. For example, the throw couldn't be very long, because of the commute between the machines and the viewing area for slight adjustments. Also, the access would have to be very good. There is also the need to keep aware of what the machines are up to in order to avoid a film tragedy (for example, as much as 1,200 feet of film laying on the floor.)
I'd like the booth not to be a complete enclosure, so the projectors are still a presence in the room, so I probably wouldn't go for small projection ports, maybe a decent sized window, possibly glassless. I'd want it to be enough of an enclosure to capture most of the stray light and cut back the mechanical sound, even if not completely silencing it.
As far as the rest of the room, I'd like it to be generally useful as family space. In other words I wouldn't go all-out miniature cinema. Rather than real cinema seating, more like couches and chairs. Unless I'm living in a 20 room house I couldn't dedicate that much space to just one thing.
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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