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Posted by Adam Deierling (Member # 2307) on October 06, 2014, 10:04 PM:

I am building a new theater room and want to incorporate a booth. Does anyone have pictures of their booth setups? I need some ideas and sugestions.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on October 07, 2014, 09:42 AM:

Have plenty of room for at least two sets of equipment and don't forget about ventilation. Ensure that film projectors are positioned to project over the heads of your audience.

Allow for film storage and work tops such as rewinding and making up your programmes.

Here are some photos to whet your appetite!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=photos+of+projection+booth&biw=1366&bih=549&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=IvgzVImsC4zsaLKigJAE&ved=0CCAQsAQ

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 07, 2014, 05:01 PM:

Adam

Check out screening room pictures here on the forum...plenty of interesting set-ups

Graham [Cool]

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