anamorphicWayne
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Here are a few memories from my old stomping grounds, Odeon Theatre, Edmonton, AB
Remembering Good Times at the Cinema
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anamorphicWayne
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From the Rialto, same city.
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anamorphicWayne
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From the Paramount.
anamorphicWayne
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And the Westmount.
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Island Cinema, British Columbia - where I ran the projector and served the treats.
anamorphicWayne
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And to the Capital 6, Victoria, BC.
I definitely had some great times at these joints. Star Wars, Close Encounters, Alien, Star Trek, Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones, E.T., Ghostbusters, Return of the Jedi, Poltergeist, Aliens, Terminator 2, Abyss....etc etc etc.
I definitely had some great times at these joints. Star Wars, Close Encounters, Alien, Star Trek, Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones, E.T., Ghostbusters, Return of the Jedi, Poltergeist, Aliens, Terminator 2, Abyss....etc etc etc.
Going through old pics....this was my room, probably around 2006. The posters, movie pins....and, if a seat in the theater was broken, we were suppose to put this Out of Order cover over it....of course I had to take one and kept it on my computer chair.....shhhhhhhh.......
So many things I've lost over the years. That cover is one where I just do not remember what happened to it.
So many things I've lost over the years. That cover is one where I just do not remember what happened to it.
I could do a lot of things with these!
Wicked cool photos
I had to take the cat to the vet to get some teeth removed, as hes getting older, and things happen...well, drove past that theater....and was just SO temped to grab a chair....but, just more things to pile up and get in the way.
Went to pick Phil up from the vet. Got a quick shot of that theaters sign...always sad to see.
Even the S is sad.
Google street view. Not sure the date taken.
Even the S is sad.
Google street view. Not sure the date taken.
Damn shame..
Going through more old footage looking for something else, I found this of a manager threading one of the projectors. I don't even remember why we filmed this, but I have used the footage for plenty other projects, usually with fast cuts and all. But, here is the full unedited 2 mins. He was one of their fasted at threading one.
Interesting to think that, unless you work in an IMAX theater, this is essentially a dead art. Theatrical releases are distributed on encrypted hard drives now.
Even those directors who swear on their great grandmother’s grave that they won’t shoot digital, and they have to use film… end up having their precious celluloid scanned and digitized in the end.
TazMan2000
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I have a friend of a friend that used to work at a theater to mount and route the film of those IMAX movies. Since the technology wasn't being used for quite some time, he was laid off and found other work. In 2017 right before Dunkirk was being released, the theater managed to find him and he said "...backed up a truck full of money to his house", to convince him to take a leave of absence from his current job in order to come back to the theater for a few weeks. After that they continued to ask him to return when other IMAX films were released. My friend and I got a tour of the projection room at that theater and I was pretty amazed at the size of the reels and how the film was threaded.
A lot of theaters in Canada have sold their IMAX projectors and repurposed their theaters for standard digital movies.
TazMan2000
A lot of theaters in Canada have sold their IMAX projectors and repurposed their theaters for standard digital movies.
TazMan2000
Yeah, and looking on google, there are only 30 imax theaters around the world that use actual film left. All the rest have also switched to digital imax.
My theater didn't have imax, but I did get to go to the Orlando Science center's Cinedome, which is a dome like theater screen, which was like the biggest at the time in the late 90s, but now totally dwarfed by the Las Vegas sphere.
Our youth group was there, and they let us see the projection room and film. Each frame is like the size of a playing card, and runs sideways. Pretty cool to see in person.
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