CineSea 29 in Pictures
A week ago today, Cinesea 29 had its official opening at the Shalimar Hotel in Wildwood, New Jersey. Now, don’t get me wrong: there were people in attendance several days before, it’s just that Thursday begins the official events.
Wildwood is a great place to be, a lot to do and many great places to eat. In my opinion, the ends of the season when CineSea is in Wildwood are the best times of the year to be there. The peak of the season the whole town is crowded and hectic, and parking places are like gold! In April and October enough restaurants and businesses are open to enjoy the town at your own pace: it’s a lot more laid back. You can walk into a restaurant without a reservation and not wait an hour and if (-for some really bizarre reason) you needed to, you could find 10 places to park.
-so a number of us make a little vacation in the days before the big event and just relax!
Everybody that's willing and able, arrives as early as they want. My son came with me and luckily, he was done with school before Thursday, noon. A full tank, a jam-packed subcompact car and not-too-bad Brooklyn and Queens and Staten Island traffic and we found ourselves well on our way!
Setting Up
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Our new screen had its second outing at CineSea 29. It lives the rest of the year at a fairly-local CineSea Regular's home. Getting it in place means renting a van and getting it up two flights of stairs (It’s too big for a car and way too big for the elevator!).
(This is a long way from a one-man operation as you can see here!)
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Once it’s out of the box and in place, it functions kind of conventionally! When you get down to it, it is still a roll-up screen, even if it is kind of immense!
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Of course, a screen requires some manner of projection equipment! These machines and their operation come courtesy several different collectors and cover Super-8, 16mm and 35mm. There is also audio equipment to set up so that all gauges have speakers up by the screen.
Some might just say that it’s better that the large suites above the CineSea room remain vacant when we’re in town. Given the amount of audio capability we bring with us, that just may be so!
Some Housekeeping
Our Main-Photographer for the weekend is Claus Harding, who we are pleased to welcome back! Also contributing is Doug Meltzer and even a few from me!
The Weather
My son and I like to bring bikes and ride the boardwalk. It rained so much at #27 we were afraid we would get washed out to Sea, so we left the bikes in the garage! Every day this time was sunny and cool, yet not arctic. I doubt we’ve ever had nicer weather. We brought the bikes this time and had a great time!
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Well, we’re set up now and it’s getting kind of dark outside. I’d say it’s about time we watch some films!
Coming Up Next: Thursday Night Theme!
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