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April 17, 2009
Bethel Center for New Media and the Arts
BETHEL, CT — The arts come back to Bethel at Center for New Media and the Arts, the 2200 sq. foot loft on the second floor of the Opera House.
On May 2, 2009, Bethel First Selectman Bob Burke will cut the ribbon for the Grand Opening of Bethel’s new Center for the arts.
Located at the historic Opera House in Bethel, CT, we offer professional video production and post-production services, sound stage capabilities, photo restoration, film transfer, web services, and more. We are opening the Center Art Gallery, the first to come to Bethel in years.
Events and happenings at the Center include: HD Video Production & Editing * Video Duplication – VHS to DVD, etc. * 8 & 16mm film-to-digital Transfer * Filmmaking Workshops * Acting workshops * Guitar and Music Workshops * Digital Music & Recording workshops * Poetry & Literature Readings * Acoustic Music Jams * Film Screenings * Dance Recitals * Rehearsal Space * Soundstage * Private & Public Event Hall * Connecticut Film Festival screenings coming Fall, 2009. We are also community-minded, and will work with our clients for good causes (e.g. a fundraiser for Family and Children’s AID in Danbury). And there is more to come!0 comments -
April 16, 2009
Remembering Cinerama (Part 27: Miami)
REMEMBERING CINERAMA
Part 27: MiamiThe following is Part Twenty-seven in a series of retrospectives on Cinerama, the legendary motion picture process that kicked off the widescreen revolution. The series focuses on providing a market-by-market, film-by-film, historical record of when and where Cinerama and its multi-panel clones were exhibited. The easy-to-reference articles also serve to provide nostalgia to those who experienced the Cinerama presentations when they were new and to highlight the movie palaces in which the memorable events took place.
Part 1: New York
Part 2: Chicago
Part 3: San Francisco
Part 4: Houston
Part 5: Washington, DC
Part 6: Los Angeles
Part 7: Atlanta
Part 8: San Diego
Part 9: Dallas
Part 10: Oklahoma City
Part 11: Syracuse
Part 12: Toronto
Part 13: Columbus
Part 14: Montreal
Part 15: Northern New Jersey
Part 16: Charlotte
Part 17: Vancouver
Part 18: Salt Lake City
Part 19: Boston
Part 20: Philadelphia
Part 21: Fresno
Part 22: Detroit
Part 23: Minneapolis
Part 24: Albuquerque
Part 25: El Paso
Part 26: Des MoinesAnd now… Part 27: Cinerama Presentations in Miami!
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Kenosha Theatre a huge draw in 1920s
KENOSHA, WI — This article looks back at the early years of the Kenosha Theatre.
Last week’s History Mystery question: What was touted as “Kenosha’s Castle in Spain” when it opened in 1927?
The answer: The Kenosha Theatre, located downtown at 5919 Sixth Ave. The grand theater was built with a Spanish design and an atmosphere of sunny Spain throughout the interior.
Read more in the Kenosha News.
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April 15, 2009
New options for Beach Theatre
CAPE MAY, NJ — With the Beach Theatre in danger, a group is now looking into turning it into a hotel.
A group trying to save the city’s last movie theater is exploring building a hotel on the site to save at least one of the four movie screens.
President Steve Jackson, of the Beach Theatre Foundation, said it may be possible to fit 50 to 75 hotel rooms on the property, and thus entice a developer willing to pay $12 million for the Beach Avenue property. Jackson said a hotel could be built on the property, which takes up a city block, while still retaining part of the movie theater.
Read the full story in the Press of Atlantic City.
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Senator Theatre auction cancelled
BALTIMORE, MD — New developments in the future of the Senator Theatre.
But the city’s plans to purchase that debt, unveiled April 12, kept it from auction. Mayor Sheila Dixon is slated to take the city’s recommendation to the Board of Estimates for approval within the next month.
“The auction was cancelled because the City has agreed to buy the note from First Mariner Bank,” said Baltimore City Deputy Mayor Andrew Frank in an e-mail response Tuesday. Frank said after the city purchases the debt, it will foreclose on the theater and schedule a new auction.
Read more at the Baltimore Business Journal.
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April 14, 2009
Looking back and forward at Patchogue
PATCHOGUE, NY — With an urban revival about to take place, locals look towards the Plaza Theater to tie together the new downtown.
Today the East Main Street movie theater invokes memories for people such as Tim Mazzei, a lifelong Blue Point resident and now a Brookhaven Town councilman. Mazzei, 54, remembers sneaking off to the Plaza as a young boy some 45 years ago to watch a certain Alfred Hitchcock movie – one about birds – that his parents had forbidden him to see because it would terrify him.
The Plaza showed its last movie more than 20 years ago and has since descended into disrepair. The empty marquee, crumbling facade and boarded entrance are eyesores, and town officials say it has become a haven for drug use, vagrants and vandalism.
And Mazzei is now helping lead the charge to get the Plaza torn down – finally.
Read the full story at Newsday.
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Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
Early cinema comes to life with the 4th Annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Held August 27 – 29, 2009 at the Clarion Hotel in Aberdeen, Maryland. Celebrities include James Best, Lee Meriwether, Bob Hastings, Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack and most notably Academy Award winning actress Celeste Holm who is 91 or 92 years old and willing to sign autographs for fans. A Drive-In movie theater located outside the hotel is open for two vintage movies on the Friday evening. Seminars and movies throughout the day. www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com
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Burlington Showcase 6 Cinemas closing
I received an e-mail from Empire Theatres in Canada that said that the Showcase 6 Cinemas in Burlington, Ontario Canada will close on April 12, 2009.
The Showcase 6 were built around 1983/84 and opened as a Cineplex-Odeon, later it was sold off to Empire Theatres when Cineplex merged with Famous Players in Canada.
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April 13, 2009
New theater has all the classics
WABASHA, MN — Thanks to some renovations, the new Broadway Theater is giving locals some cinema options.
Would you like to maybe see a good movie at a low price? In a theater that boasts surround sound, a HUGE screen, and that can play Blu-ray discs?
Well, have we got the answer for you!
How about next weekend trying out Wabasha’s new Broadway Theater!? Or, should we say, old Broadway Theater? Because the new Broadway Theater is really the old Wabasha High School Auditorium, located in what was Wabasha High School, then the middle school, and now is the Mittel Schule.
Read more in the Post Bulletin.
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In need of seats
I am in need of 20 theater seats for a small theater in Charleston, South Carolina. I live in Maryland and might be able to pick them up.
Please .
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