December 2009 photos from the Steve Guttag collection.
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The AFI/Silver as it appears in 2009. It operates 7-days a ... |
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The Silver as it appeared in the 1950s and in 2009. The “Si... |
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The outer lobby has been restored with its Art Deco coves. |
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Outer lobby poster cases. |
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Inner Lobby. The flags are on display for the European Unio... |
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The Historic Theatre (A.K.A. Silver 1)
Originally seating a... |
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The Historic Theatre’s right wall. There is definitely a mi... |
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Looking back towards the booth, one can also see the light/s... |
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The theatre organ accompanies silent movies. Note too, one ... |
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One of the tricks the Historic Theatre must accomplish is ha... |
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However, the Art Deco walls move to allow for wide-screen mo... |
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Moving across the lobby to the new theatres. Above you can ... |
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The entrance to Theatre #2. Video monitors provide informat... |
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Silver II. Probably the best theatre to see a movie. Acous... |
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The two new theatres do not share the features of the Histor... |
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Theatre #2 looking back at the projection room. Just 4 sets... |
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Like the Historic, the other two theatres must be able to pr... |
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Theatre #2 in “scope” mode. The screen is just under 40-fee... |
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Theatre #2 seats 200, rather spaciously. The screen is rath... |
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Theatre #3 entrance, located at the entrance to the lobby fr... |
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Theatre #3 is a smaller version of Theatre #2. The brighter... |
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Theatre #3 seats 75 yet retains all of the A/V capabilities ... |
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All four sides of the masking system move to accommodate mos... |
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Like its siblings, Silver III can also do the 1.37 format pr... |
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This picture is included not to show off that the AFI/Silver... |
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This door, in particular. While the door has changed (and w... |
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The stairway and the climb to the booth has not changed in o... |
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At the top of the first flight of stairs to the booth we tak... |
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And finally, upon exiting the second flight of stairs one em... |
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The Barco DP50 still provides all of the video presentations... |
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And yes, the DP50 was THX approved. |
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Projectors 3 and 4 for Theatre #1 are the FP38ES by Kinoton.... |
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Projector 1 and 2 in the Historic Theatre are the Kinoton FP... |
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Running 70mm and DTS. |
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Close up of the Kinoton control panel. The green LED next t... |
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The backside of the Kinoton FP38ES Projectors showing the EM... |
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Looking inside of the FP38ES, we see 16mm preamp/delay at th... |
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Moving down, the EMK-1 is now closed up. One can see the Cr... |
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Inside the projector itself. On the upper-left one can see ... |
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Since these projectors have automations built in, there are ... |
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Looking inside the FP75ES (35/70) one will see much of the s... |
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All of the xenon lamps are powered by IREM N3-180s except th... |
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Portal Station in the Historic Theatre. CP200 Cat 204 on th... |
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The main screen at the portal touch panel. Here the operato... |
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Masking Presets. In addition to the common formats, the pro... |
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PA Preset screen. It also allows the projectionist to choos... |
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Manual Lighting Controls. |
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Unlike most theatres, the AFI/Silver has a great many video ... |
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The remaining sources are the local ones as well as the HD s... |
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Once a source is selected, a suitable screen is opened up th... |
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The “automation” screen is tailored to the specific theatres... |
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From the Automation screen, one can choose from 1 of the 6 p... |
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Rarely used, the AFI/Silver does have its own dubbers that c... |
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Each projector also has its own lens cabinet (Neumade LC-2).... |
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The lens complement for a 35/16 projector…the 35mm scope len... |
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The rewind/inspection station in the Historic Theatre. The ... |
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As I said, they have a lot of film and film bins and reels. ... |
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And now for the Historic Theatre’s wall of sound…and video…a... |
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The finest processor ever designed, the Dolby CP200. Even i... |
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In fact, it has quite a few extra numbers. Wherever possibl... |
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Moving down one rack we come the CP200’s Accessories. Two D... |
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The next rack down continues the far reach of the CP200’s co... |
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So how does the CP200 control all of these peripherals? Wel... |
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The Pennywise DF-1 is what allows the CP200 to take on a ser... |
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The next rack is bit of the “meeting of the minds.” In here... |
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The Crestron and PA rack. The Crestron controller for the H... |
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The Crestron system was designed by Onyx Engineering of Virg... |
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At the rack one has at least the same functionality that one... |
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In some cases, the rack touch panel provides extra functiona... |
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There are also some functions that have no application at th... |
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Ever find that the original Dolby DMA8 doesn’t have enough c... |
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Even the film projectors are integrated. They can be contro... |
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The matrix switcher screen provides real-time status as well... |
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As mentioned before, the Crestron system can integrate the f... |
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Most cinema folks will not have this much control over their... |
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Each theatre has a pull-out shelf with an Elmo Slide tele-ci... |
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The last two racks in the Historic theatre contain the Cinem... |
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Located between the two projection booths is an audio record... |
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Entering the booth for theatres 2 and 3. Theatre #2’s equip... |
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Theatre #3’s equipment is on the left as well as the other f... |
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The Kinoton ST500E platter system in its “normal” mode (cove... |
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Located above the platter and also equipped in all three the... |
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The portal stations for theatres 2 and 3 are similar to the ... |
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Presets for theatres 2 or 3 showing the particulars for the ... |
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Theatre #2’s Cinema processor rack. It features the Panaste... |
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Open up and say “ahhhh.” The CSP1200s are fitted with genui... |
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The insides of a CSP4600. The dubbers use Panastereo SR (CM... |
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The next rack clearly shows why Ethernet switches belong in ... |
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The next rack down houses the Crestron system for Theatre #2... |
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The last rack contains the PA amps, Media Matrix for theatre... |
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Theatre #3s racks are nearly identical though a mirror image... |
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The VTR bank in the CTA. The DVD players on the left are pr... |
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Opposite of the VTR racks are the Video and Audio Patch bays... |
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Care to wire a video patch bay? How about a stack of them? |
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The video production suite. |
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And right next door is the audio production area (you can se... |
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The AFI/Silver. One of the best places to see a movie of an... |
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