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Author Topic: Carbon arc booths in operation? Mike Babb Master Film Handler Posts: 250 From: Norwich UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 04-04-2011 08:07 PM                        Are there any in operation in the US and if so, where, website info if it exists?  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-04-2011 08:16 PM                     The theatre in the casino on Catalina Island off the California coast has an annual silent film festival where the old carbon Arc Brenkerts are used... Catalina Island site link Here are links to a forum where I posted pics of the switchgear, motor/generators and projectors in the theatre (projector pics in Part 3 and 4.): Please note I posted these links to share the pictures of the equipment, the originals are lost due to prior computer crashes. There is some interesting discussions that take place within the linked threads. Booth Thread Part 1 Booth Thread Part 2 Booth Thread Part 3 Booth Thread Part 4  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-04-2011 08:20 PM                        In my immediate area: Avon Cinema - Providence, RI Wellfleet Drive-In - Wellfleet, MA. - seasonal - (was carbon arc at least as of a couple of years ago) There are actually a bunch of carbon-arc booths still around, but few of them are open daily for film screenings.  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-05-2011 10:04 AM                     The Capitol theatre in Rome, NY still uses Ashcraft Core Lites. Rome Capitol homepage  |  IP: Logged Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 04-05-2011 01:03 PM                     Stanford Theater, Palo Alto, CA  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-05-2011 02:06 PM                     The Landmark Loews Jersey in Jersey City, New Jersey still uses Ashcraft Super Core Lites.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-05-2011 02:47 PM                     Temple Theatre, SAGINAW Michigan  |  IP: Logged John Vincent, Jr. Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Eastham, MA, USA Registered: Jul 2003 posted 04-06-2011 08:59 PM                        Yes we are still Carbon Arc John, Wellfleet Drive-In  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 04-07-2011 12:16 AM                     Kenneth, the Temple looks amazing! I may have to make a trip up for a film sometime. AJG  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-07-2011 10:07 AM                     Aaron, We will be happy give tours to you and any others interested in the theatre and the connected facilities, ballroom, lounge etc.. We will have Paul Roberts from England to play a concert on the Barton Organ on Mother's Day at 3PM. That is Sunday May 8th. There will be no film for that event but you could hear the organ and see the facilities. Please check out our "Fare and Feature" series. The lunches are only for season ticket holders but you can buy admission to the films at the door. KEN  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 04-07-2011 11:57 AM                     That sounds awesome Ken, a tour would be great. I'm tentatively planning on trying to make it up for To Catch a Thief as long as my schedule permits. I'll keep you posted. AJG  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-17-2012 12:23 AM                 It has been 497 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Tony L. Hernandez Expert Film Handler Posts: 158 From: Windsor, CO, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 08-17-2012 12:23 AM                     I thought it might be interesting to breathe some new life into this thread now that we are plunging into the digital era very rapidly (much more so than we were in 2011 when the thread originated) and xenon lamphouses and rectifiers are now in great surplus and can be obtained for next to nothing as opposed to a few short years ago when a carbon arc to xenon actually cost a few bucks. My contributions to the list of theaters that are currently on carbon arcs are as follows: Comanche Drive In Theater-Buena Vista, Colorado Flagler Theater (indoor house)-Flagler,Colorado  |  IP: Logged Frank B. McLaughlin Film Handler Posts: 76 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 2011 posted 08-17-2012 08:24 AM                        Santa-Fe, Denver  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 08-17-2012 09:51 AM                     I'm not sure if they're still there, but the last time I was up in the booth at the Oakland(CA)Paramount Theater, they were still using them. But that was several years ago. (I always tell my friends that when I croak, I want to be creamated in the Paramount's giant arc lamps, & have my ashes put in one of those fancy cigerette urns they have in the lobby)  |  IP: Logged

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