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Author Topic: Any Festive Booths? Jake Lafree Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Valparaiso, IN USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 11-17-2007 12:43 AM                        Does anybody out there decorate their booth with Christmas lights/decorations when the season arrives? I'm going to be decorating ours again on Black Friday, getting all giddy already. It's truly an awesome site to see, with the booth hall lights out and just the projector lights/sound rack lights/Christmas lights on. Perhaps I'll post a couple pics next week after I decorate it. Just wondered if anyone else out there has any sort of decorating tradition...  |  IP: Logged Bryan M. Montgomery Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Chillicothe, Ohio Registered: Jul 2007 posted 11-18-2007 12:52 AM                        I decorate mine. Its my second home, and I love Christmas, so why not?  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 11-18-2007 01:17 AM                     I've never seen a booth decorated for Christmas before, though I only have a limited view through the portholes I was thinking that the Christmas decorations (tinsel, lights, trees etc.) would be a potential source of trouble - extra dust and dirt to go into the projector mechanism and film gate. Cinemas themselves often put up a few Christmas decorations in the lobby though.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 11-18-2007 01:39 AM                     Are you suggesting that adding a set for lights creates dust? Unless you're putting up lights that have dust already the dust would be the same with or without the lights.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 11-18-2007 10:07 AM                     I have one large rectangular port window for two projectors. I usually run a simple set of LED Christmas lights around the perimeter of it. I plug the lights into the old "tape-deck" outlet on my automation, so the lights automatically go off when the projector starts and come on again when the show is over. One year I tried using a 'twinkling' string of lights, but I was getting little "pops" from the light flashers leaking into my sound system, so now I don't use the flashing type any more. JimC/Balboa Theater, San FranciscoCA  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-18-2007 11:25 AM                     No decorations. Our ports are large, so we run dark. No ambient light to worry about, and nothing to call attention to our operation. The "decorations", are better left to the floor people. The patrons can enjoy them.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 11-19-2007 08:35 AM                    my first xmas working at a cinema in projection... im basically in charge since the boss left so... i think some xmas lights are in order. our site is good cos its one long room with projectors lining the walls. ill have the lights just for our own enjoyment... and i think ill do the same with plugging them into the cutoff switch... makes sense not to have them running when the films are. i just cant wait... 3 months gone.. xmas to come!  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 11-19-2007 06:07 PM                     Regarding dust and dirt, I was only suggesting that Christmas decorations (especially trees and tinsel) might get pieces pulled off them as people walk around. Those pieces could easily enter the projector and jam it up, or go into the gate assembly and cast shadows. I have seen Christmas light sets actually 'project' shards of light onto nearby surfaces. There's always the possibility that they'll cause unusual light shards and shadows in the auditorium, especially if they're flashing. You mentioned switching off the lights when projecting, and that's a catch 22 situation. The Christmas lights look best when the main lights are off, but you can only have them switched on between shows when the booth lights are on.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 11-21-2007 09:11 AM                    Depends how you have it set up really. I, personally want to go to a bargain bumper bucket shop of xmas supplies, just loads of lights and surround all the makeup tables, notice boards, porthole surrounds etc... not flashing for those ones on the portholes... will upload some photos once done... an xmas tree (a very small one) will probably be erected.... cant let the multifunctionals downstairs have all the fun...  |  IP: Logged

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