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Topic: Any Changeover Houses Left?
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-24-2002 08:07 AM
Brooklyn Center Cinema -- change-over; 2000ft usually/6000ft rarely; Carbon Arcs (Pearless Magnarc burning 80amps)
Brooklyn Museum -- change-over; 2000ft only; Xenon
Celebrate Brooklyn Summer Festival -- change-over; 2000ft usually /6000ft occasionally; Xenon
Massachusettes Museum of Contemporary Art -- change-over; 2000ft only; Xenon (70mm)
CineStudio, Hartford -- change-over; 2000ft/6000ft; Carbon Arc -- not sure of the lamphouse, but I think they are using Ashcraft. (70mm)
Landmark Theatre, Upstate NY -- change-over, 2000ft/6000ft, Xenon (possibly).
And as mentioned, the fabulous Loew's Jersey.
These are just a few on the east coast that I know of personally. I am sure there are lots more, as Jeff says, mostly specialty venues; obviously you won't find any change-over or carbon arc setups in multiplex operation. CineStudio is as close to a commercial operation as you can get (they rent the theatre from the college) and they do run three days a week every week and mix some very new, albeit second run titles, as well as retrospective and independent films.
Frank
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 12-24-2002 08:28 AM
I can't speak for the USA, but here in the UK carbon arc is just about dead, sadly. Two places that I know of, the Plaza, Oxted and the New Royal, Faversham were running arcs with 2000 foot changeovers until recently, but have now re-equipped. I don't know what they are running now, but I believe that someone from the cinema at Faversham posts here, perhaps he could let us kmow.
There are plenty of places running changeovers with xenons, the National Film Theatre, for example, have Victoria 8s, which can take 6000 feet but they run most of their films on 2000 foot spools. The main exceptions to this are for two strip 3-D, where both projectors are needed, and for 70mm, which seems to come in on larger spools. They are now holding some films for longer runs, of a week or so, and I believe that at least some of these are run from 6000 foot spools. I saw one last year which certainly was. Changeover houses are still being built. The David Lean Cinema in Croydon is a small, single screen art house venue, seating about 50. It opened just a few years ago, with a pair of brand new Kinoton FP-30Ds. I have projected there a couple of times, they normally make up prints on 6000 foot spools, but can of course run 200 foot parts. I ran one film there that way. The Museum of London, the last time I was there, had only 2000 foot spool boxes on their Kalee projectors, I expect that it is still the same today. Anywhere that is still licenced to run nitrate must be running at most 2000 feet on a machine, I beleive that you still have a number of nitrate-licenced venues over there, here it is just about extinct. Many archives will not allow their prints to be spliced for funning on large spools or platers, so anywhere running these prints must be doing 2000 foot changeovers. Then there are the prewiew theatres, just about all of them would be running 2000 feet. Home cinemas, archives, studios, television production facilities, laboratories, university lecture theatres, there are plenty of places other than multiplex cinemas which run film, and many of them would be doing changeovers.
I know of just a few conversions from xenon to carbon arc. One place in the West of Englnd, I can't remember the name, had a pair of Westars, long ago converted to horrible BTH three electrode vertical xenons, still with 2000 foot spools. About ten years ago they equipped one projector with a tower and modern xenon lamphouse to run the features, but retained the second machine for running the adverts and trailers on a separate spool. As this machine was running for just a few minutes at a time, they converted it back to carbon. Sadly, the place has now closed. I recently heard of a cinema in Germany which had converted to carbon under new ownership, I don't know the details. A few months ago I converted a private home cinema in the North of England from very small xenons which were too small to align correctly in the lamphouses, replacing them with the original Peerless arcs, which they still had in store. Lastly, of course, there is the Lowe's Jersey, which has re-instated the Ashcraft arcs which were in use there from the 1950s to the '70s. I hope they remain in use for a long time to come, but the news that National are to cease production of carbons is worrying.
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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-24-2002 08:38 AM
There are still plenty of changeover houses, though most are not regular first-run mainstream film venues.
For what it's worth, I have personally run film at the following places (all but one of which are currently in regular operation; pics of most are in the gallery):
Williamsburg Theatre - Williamsburg, VA. (2000/6000' - xenon - now called "Kimball Theatre")
Cape Cinema - Dennis, MA. (2000' - carbon)
Hanscom AFB - Bedford, MA. (2000' - xenon)
GCC Screening Room - Chestnut Hill, MA. (2000' - xenon)
Columbus Theatre - Providence, RI. (main house - 2000/6000' and platter - xenon; balcony - 2000' - carbon - soon to be converted to xenon)
Wellesley College - Wellesley, MA. (2000/6000' - xenon)
Brandeis University - Waltham, MA. (2000/6000' - xenon)
Avon Cinema - Providence, RI. (2000' - carbon)
Others in the Boston area that I know of but haven't worked in (incomplete list):
Coolidge Corner - Brookline, MA. (6000' automated c/o - xenon)
Brattle Theatre - Cambridge, MA. (2000/6000' - xenon)
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA. (2000' - xenon)
Studio Cinema - Belmont, MA. (6000' - xenon)
Harvard Film Archive - Cambridge, MA. (2000/6000' - xenon)
Wang Theatre - Boston, MA. (2000' - xenon)
Wollaston Theatre - Quincy, MA. (2000' - carbon)
Others in the Virginia/DC area that I know of but haven't worked in (incomplete list):
Byrd Theatre - Richmond, VA. (2000/6000' - xenon)
Naro Expanded Cinema - Norfolk, VA. (2000/6000' automated c/o - xenon)
Fork Union DI - Fork Union, VA. (2000' - carbon)
Uptown - DC (2000/4000' - xenon)
AFI - DC (2000/6000' - xenon)
Charles Theatre - Baltimore, MD. (used to be a single with 2000/6000' and xenon; is it still a c/o house?)
many others (Steve G. will give a list, I'm sure)
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Gordon McLeod
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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-24-2002 08:59 AM
In the Buffalo area
the East Aurora theatre
The Sheas Buffalo Carbon
The Rivera North Tonawanda Carbon
In Toronto The Cinesphere, The Ont Science Centre, The Art gallery of OntarioThe Royal, The Revue, The Fox, The Kingsway, The Music Hall,The Paradise, 2 Screening Rooms at Famous Player and 2 at Cineplex Odeon and 2 at York University, 1 at MCA, 1 at Warner Brothers, 1 at University of Toronto
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