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Author Topic: Theaters still running 35mm Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 11-25-2013 12:14 AM                     Let's see how few theaters are still around running 35mm. Please post below any theaters you know are still running 35mm film, along with the number of screens in their building. (Name of theater, location and screen count.) NOTE - I'm mostly curious about the US market, because there are other countries still running quite a bit of 35mm.  |  IP: Logged Brian D. Whitish Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-25-2013 01:48 AM                     Varsity Theatre in Seattle. When they do digital its on a Sanyo or Christie portable with BluRay.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-25-2013 02:59 AM                        I know the Clearlake Stadium Cinema in Clearlake California is still running 35mm as of November 22, but I understand they have digital equipment on order. This is a two screen discount theatre roughly 30 miles from my location. I don't know what kind of 35mm equipment they are currently using or what kind of digital equipment they will be installing.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-25-2013 05:33 AM                        Are you talking about theatres with no capability, or theatres that can and do run both 35mm and ?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-25-2013 06:11 AM                     Theatres that we service, at some level, that have no DCinema capability, at the moment and are also open to the general public. I believe all of them have plans to obtain DCinema equipment in 2014. Only one of them is a "conventional" movie plex: Move-E-Town in Elizabethtown, PA...8-screens State Theatre: State College, PA, 1-screen Greenbelt Theatre: Greenbelt, MD, 1-screen Kimball Theatre, Williamsburg, VA, 2-screens  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-25-2013 07:07 AM                     Local single screen Theatres using FILM Temple Theatre, Saginaw MI 1 screen (16mm 35mm 70mm) Court Street Theatre, Saginaw MI 1 screen (35mm)  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-25-2013 08:37 AM                        Capri Theatre, Montgomery, AL 1 screen Will be installing DCI next month, but will keep 35mm (and 16mm) Belcourt Theatre, Nashville TN, 2 screens Has DCI and 35mm  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-25-2013 09:31 AM                     I forgot one... Kentlands Stadium 10: Kentlands, MD, 10-screens (9 are film, 1 DCP)  |  IP: Logged Mark Campbell Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Seattle, WA USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 11-25-2013 09:47 AM                     AMC Factoria 8 8 Screens Bellevue, WA  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 11-25-2013 10:37 AM                     Plaza 8 Theaters St. Joseph Missouri 8 screens, 35mm. Asst grab bag of projectors including Strong, Century, Cinemecannica. SPECO LP-270s Open daily, second run features Just ran out of film guard  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-25-2013 10:37 AM                     The Vaska Theater here in Lawton is still in operation (and running 35mm film prints). It's a 2nd run/bargain theater. The theater operator and property owner have been looking for ways how the Vaska can have d-cinema gear installed in a cost feasible manner. So far they haven't found a way to get it done. The theater is so old and in need of various other upgrades on top of the digital projection gear. Odds are when 35mm prints are no longer available this theater will close. Then the interior will be gutted and the property converted to some other use.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 11-25-2013 01:42 PM                     AMC Shirlington (Arlington Virginia) (all 7 screens)  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-25-2013 02:10 PM                        Are we excluding archive/rep/cinematheque type places from this list (i.e. we're only talking about venues that only or mainly show newly released, mainstream Hollywood features)? If not, then I'd guess that there are probably somewhere between 50 and 100 theatres in the US that still run 35mm for a significant proportion of their shows, and between 5 and 20 in most European countries. A smaller subset of them will continue to show film as long as they can on curatorial/ethical grounds (in other words, they won't stop until either archives will no longer loan them prints or they are unable to maintain their film projection installations in operational condition, probably because machine-specific spares are no longer available). For most, however, the first law of archiving will apply - that 5% of a typical collection accounts for 95% of access activity - with the result that when the most heavily shown rep and archive titles become available on DCP, the theatres that show them will gradually reduce their use of film on an ongoing basis.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-25-2013 02:39 PM                     Central Ohio -- Screens at the Continent (4 of 8 screens digital) Star Cinemas (Grove City) (8 screens film) Grandview Theatre (single screen film)  |  IP: Logged Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 11-25-2013 03:42 PM                     The Skowhegan Drive-In Theatre in Skowhegan, Maine and the Randall Drive-In Theatre in Bethel, Vermont are still exclusively 35mm. Don Brown  |  IP: Logged

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