anamorphicWayne
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Here are a few memories from my old stomping grounds, Odeon Theatre, Edmonton, AB
I could do a lot of things with these!Just saw that this theater just closed down about 20 mins from me. Never been to that one. There is a Regal right around the corner. So maybe why. Always sad to see though.
They are selling the chairs now. I wouldn't know what to do with one, or have room, but the thought of having one is still cool.
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Wicked cool photosHere are a few memories from my old stomping grounds, Odeon Theatre, Edmonton, AB
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I had to take the cat to the vet to get some teeth removed, as hes getting older, and things happen...well, drove past that theater....and was just SO temped to grab a chair....but, just more things to pile up and get in the way.I could do a lot of things with these!
Damn shame..Went to pick Phil up from the vet. Got a quick shot of that theaters sign...always sad to see.
Even the S is sad.
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Google street view. Not sure the date taken.
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Interesting to think that, unless you work in an IMAX theater, this is essentially a dead art. Theatrical releases are distributed on encrypted hard drives now.Going through more old footage looking for something else, I found this of a manager threading one of the projectors. I don't even remember why we filmed this, but I have used the footage for plenty other projects, usually with fast cuts and all. But, here is the full unedited 2 mins. He was one of their fasted at threading one.
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Yeah, and looking on google, there are only 30 imax theaters around the world that use actual film left. All the rest have also switched to digital imax.Interesting to think that, unless you work in an IMAX theater, this is essentially a dead art. Theatrical releases are distributed on encrypted hard drives now.
Even those directors who swear on their great grandmother’s grave that they won’t shoot digital, and they have to use film… end up having their precious celluloid scanned and digitized in the end.
My theater didn't have imax, but I did get to go to the Orlando Science center's Cinedome, which is a dome like theater screen, which was like the biggest at the time in the late 90s, but now totally dwarfed by the Las Vegas sphere.I have a friend of a friend that used to work at a theater to mount and route the film of those IMAX movies. Since the technology wasn't being used for quite some time, he was laid off and found other work. In 2017 right before Dunkirk was being released, the theater managed to find him and he said "...backed up a truck full of money to his house", to convince him to take a leave of absence from his current job in order to come back to the theater for a few weeks. After that they continued to ask him to return when other IMAX films were released. My friend and I got a tour of the projection room at that theater and I was pretty amazed at the size of the reels and how the film was threaded.
A lot of theaters in Canada have sold their IMAX projectors and repurposed their theaters for standard digital movies.
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