Harry Potter and the Goggles of Night Vision

[sobrique]

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<A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3763473.stm"</A>Apparently</A>, Vue Cinemas (formerly Warner) are issuing their staff with NVGs to stop piracy.

Now I need to get a job as a projectionist...

Although it does make you wonder. Spotting illegal recording gear is one thing. But what about couples having sex in the back row?

Given the showing schedule of showcase looks something like
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (PG) (159 mins)
Mon-Thurs 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 9.00 10.00

I'd say it looks fairly popular.

Comments

[nuala.livejournal.com]

Oooo. I bow to superior movie geekiness! :D

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

It's all a natural consequence of being 'in da biz' even peripherally.

Warwick student cinema is one of the few student cinemas in the country that turned a profit. Well, not an _official_ profit because they were a society and weren't allowed to, but they did have plenty of capital for new toys.
And then it all disappeared pretty quick, because Cinema grade audio visual kit is very expensive. Not to mention how much a replacement 4kW bulb costs.

But we were very well equipped - better than some of the local 'real' cinemas. The only drawback being that we were using a 300seater lecture theatre rather than a 'proper' cinema. (tables are good for head resting, but less comfortable from a sitting down point of view).

Showings almost every evening, sometimes 2. Amateur projectionists and management, but given the levels I've seen at local cinemas, actually all the more professional for that.

ok, so every now and then we had strange things like having a reel of 'Speed 2' in the middle of 'Leon' or someone putting a film in backwards, but they were almost always well focussed, racked, and fixed immediately, rather than having to run out of the auditorum and complain to 'someone' that the film is wrong.

Nostalgia rules, but not like it used to.

[ehrine.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was a real of Leon in the middle of speed 2. The working theory was that the projectionist was subconciously trying to improve the movie ;)

I also remember an incident when they showed titanic where the 5th reel was shown twice... Once after the 2nd reel and once in the right place... Apparently none of the audience noticed :P