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Topic: Re: Ads
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Tyler Skinner
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 115
From: Pa
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-31-2000 02:23 PM
Warner Brothers just lifted their restriction on Ads.Still, When I get a box of Comercials in, I just pretend they were printed wrong, or an usher stole them or something. The only "Ads" I will run are Pepsi Ads, because regal will Freak if I don't put it on, and I've been putting the Oscar2000 ads and MAYBE a PSA if its respectable but THATS IT! The Customers get enough bullshit commercials on the slide projectors, Theater Radio Network CD's and now Lobby DVD projector screen, they DO NOT need Commercials before the trailers. What goes through their heads when the lights start to dim is "Oh Good, Trailers, then the movie is starting... wait a second, what the f@#$ is this crap?" so it goes
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-31-2000 04:07 PM
I don't love those ads but I'll put up with them. As long as there's only ONE of them and they have a MOVIE theme. (CAN'T be seen on TV!)The Stand-Up Comedy Coca-Cola trailers are okay in my book. (Even if I don't like all the comedians.) My favorite one was the "Shmoo". A close second is the "Shadow Puppets". -- All I do is start the projector early. That gets the ads overwith ASAP. Slides? -- Well having to take care of the projectors annoys me. The lamps are ALWAYS blowing. I have 17 screens, too! As long as there are some trivia questions or something like that, I don't mind. Most people just ignore them anyway! Movie Tunes? -- SUCK! SUCK! SUCK! -- DIE! DIE! DIE! I just thought we should play movie soundtrack discs! -- Theme from Star Wars, etc. They shouldn't try to nail you for copyright violations. You're PROMOTING THEIR MOVIES!!!
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Brian Francis
Film Handler
Posts: 15
From: Newberg, Oregon USA
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-31-2000 06:45 PM
The ads I run here in Newberg are the SCREENVISION (M+M, LEE JEANS, ANTI-DRUG, WRIGLEYS(to name a VERY few). Right at this moment none are slotted for a "flight" so none are on screen this week. We have a drive-in Http://www.99w.com and they sort of help there at the beginning of intermission although occasionally a person will drive out exclaiming that we are too much like TV which they went there to get away from in the first place-BUT it helps to extend the intermission from going to a black screen-if they stick around the good old FILMACK, etc, comes on. They get them out of their cars and into the snack-bar, I tell you. At the Cameo I don't have a slide projector yet, it's been hard to recieve current film trailers. Running the films second the lab mounted and loose trailers are always gone so I run the ads and plan to put their quarterly small payments into improving the booth. The last payment for the forth quarter was suprisingly large and since I have been reading this site for awhile, have had some #@$%^&!!! STATIC problems lately, I ordered a KELMAR film cleaner and a bottle of FILMGUARD from A.C.E. to see if it improves this problem, and clean up my second run films. Paid for by SCREENVISION!! It was either a film cleaner or a slide projector- DO YOU THINK I DID THE RIGHT THING???
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Andrew D'Vrey
Film Handler
Posts: 92
From: St. Paul, MN USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-01-2000 02:36 AM
It is our cinema's policy to start Advertisements before scheduled start times. Currently we have two minutes of ads so I start everything with ads two minutes early. We also don't dim our lights for advertisements...the first stepdown cue goes at our Coming Attractions tag. Personally, I don't think it matters if it is ads or trailers, there's simply too much damn stuff there before the feature. Some of my prints have almost 20 minute trailer packs. ------------------
"And the monkey flips the switch."
- Major Don West, "Lost In Space" Andrew D'Vrey
IATSE Local 219
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Dave Williams
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Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-01-2000 02:50 PM
The previous 19 years here at my theater they would run 20 minutes of ads and coming attractions, so when I stepped in here and just started the movie on time, OH THE HUMANITY. I never heard so much bitching, these people actually want to be able to show up late and not miss the movie.Well I decided "fine then", and began starting the shows 20 minutes late, but NO COMMERCIALS or previews. OH IT STARTED AGAIN!!! How dare I start the movie late. These people just have no idea what they want. I even started doing game shows before the shows. Worked really well, gave out some good prizes, until one joker thought it was funny to bait me into an argument and I ejected him out the door, his wife chasing after him and apologizing to me. I got good laughs out of that one, but I have not returned to the act as I just lost my enthusiasm because of these people. They truly are lost and need us to tell them what they want, what have we done to our great society??? ------------------
"If it's not worth doing, I have allready been there and done it"
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