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rcdt55b commented about North Fork Arts Center at the Sapan Greenport Theatre on Oct 10, 2019 at 5:13 am

The theater makes little if any. He loves the old theater. He collects theater memorabilia and has it displyed throughout.

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rcdt55b commented about Quad Cinema on Apr 12, 2019 at 7:53 pm

Cohen bought the Landmark chain a few months ago. The main change will be that the Landmark people will be booking the Quad Cinema starting around June. They will continue with rep titles, just not as many.

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rcdt55b commented about Quad Cinema on Apr 12, 2019 at 7:37 pm

Yes, but still owned by Charles Cohen.

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rcdt55b commented about Quad Cinema on Nov 30, 2018 at 8:33 pm

He has complained for years. Yes, even when nothing was running in said theaters.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 23, 2018 at 3:11 pm

The so called “wretched 3-D Santa ride” still gets one of the greatest responses from the audience, adults included. The film is no different than last year’s other than the Coke logo in Times Square has been changed to Pepsi. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

There are no “panels” as far as the screen goes. It’s a one piece silver screen. There are 2 vertical supports behind it. When the outside doors are open, the vacuum that’s created sucks the actual screen material back and pushes on those supports. It makes it look like 3 separate pieces, especially on bright scenes. To make things worse, the screen is not curved, which silver screens are supposed to be.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 21, 2018 at 6:45 pm

More and more automation!!!!!!!!!! Oi.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Aug 26, 2017 at 2:18 am

No Dolby Atmos installed.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Feb 23, 2017 at 1:24 am

Before I forget, here are the upcoming movies coming to Radio City…..

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in Concert March 31st or April 1st

Tribeca Film Festival April 19th and April 29th

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 21, 2016 at 5:26 pm

I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to say but surround speakers were not installed until around 1994 for Lion King. You would not have heard any sound from the sides before then. You had 5 channels behind the screen for optical and mag tracks. As far as Dolby Digital is concerned, it was a huge improvement in film sound for countless reasons. The “loud digital glare” was only because film makers demanded it to be played too loud. I do agree that the fake arch really sucks though. It takes a lot of room from the stage as well as the silver screen.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 18, 2016 at 8:20 pm

Good luck to your wife at the new show. Nothing new happening here. Film will always pop up here and there. It will never totally go away. Thank god.

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rcdt55b commented about Quad Cinema on Nov 18, 2016 at 1:41 am

April 7, 2017. We will see.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 18, 2016 at 1:12 am

We can run 35MM and 70MM still so we’re ready. We keep all 4 projectors very well maintained. I just don’t think that some of the people upstairs know that we can still run film. It’s a shame.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Sep 26, 2016 at 5:29 pm

Is it safe to assume that there is no nitrate film left in the film “safe” in the closet at the end of the hall? I was going to go through all the film in there this season.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Sep 3, 2016 at 12:37 am

I can’t believe how packed it was. Throughout the day, they kept releasing more and more seats. They even seat people behind the projectors in the first mezz.

My biggest complaint was the non use of ANY masking. How do you not mask the image on ANY side?????

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jul 13, 2016 at 8:46 pm

NewYorker, I think you are right about not having the big names in the show. Last year when Derek Hough took a day off, their was a clear audible moan from the audience. Also, the thought was that there would be more tourists in the summer.

On the projection side, we replaced the 11 digital projectors on the choral stairs and in the booth with 22 newer, brighter ones. They also replaced some of the LED walls and legs with newer ones and also added more.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jul 13, 2016 at 7:57 pm

I won’t comment on the quality of the show itself since I have seen every show so far and it wouldn’t be fair. I do have to say though that ticket sales are EXTREMELY bad. Attendance has been awful.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Apr 23, 2016 at 4:06 pm

Not only are they not using the organs, but there will be a digital soundtrack to supplement the orchestra. Oy!!!

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Mar 20, 2016 at 11:25 pm

Didn’t miss it. Wasn’t allowed to talk about it. I will tomorrow if anyone wants to know about it.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Dec 21, 2015 at 9:07 pm

1/6/65-1/27/65 Father Goose 1/28/65-3/3/65 36 Hours ¾/65-3/31/65 Dear Heart 4/1/65-5/12/65 Operation Crossbow 5/13/65-7/14/65 Yellow Rolls Royce 7/15/65-9/15/65 Sandpiper 9/16/65-11/3/65 Great Race 11/4/65-12/1/65 Never Too Late 12/2/65-1/5/66 That Darn Cat

Sound Of Music did not play here in 1965. I have ALL the original books here that were used by the projectionist since the building opened.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Dec 11, 2015 at 10:39 pm

The only Santa part that is on a track is the 3D flight from the North Pole. The rest of the show is all him. The other main characters say and sing there own vocals also. The rest of the ensemble pretty much runs off of tracks. I’m pretty sure the Rockettes are tracks too but I’ll check.

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rcdt55b commented about Quad Cinema on Nov 24, 2015 at 8:18 pm

New opening date is May 2016. Seating lowered to around 100 per screen.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 18, 2015 at 11:32 pm

Not only did she use the front wall, but she used the sides also. It took 27 digital projectors to do it. It was a good show.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 13, 2015 at 3:50 am

We did go back to linear 3D gels this year which is better than last year’s circular 3D gels because of less double image. This isn’t the reason for what you saw though. There are 2 vertical braces behind the screen which are right up against the screen itself. Each one is a third of the way in from each side. Because the screen is so big, there is some slack in it. When the house fans are turned on, the screen is blown back onto these braces. On bright scenes, the braces are very visible while watching from the front. The second problem is the silver screen. It is extremely reflective. So because the screen isn’t sitting perfectly flat now, it looks like 3 sections of different brightness. We complained enough over the last few years about the braces that they finally removed the diagonal ones so it wasn’t as noticeable.

BTW, that screen is not the new one. It’s the same one we have used for the Christmas show for the last 4 years. The new picture sheet, which is also a silver screen for some reason, is only used for movies.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 5, 2015 at 12:44 am

I agree 100%. We still do use film from time to time also.

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rcdt55b commented about Radio City Music Hall on Nov 5, 2015 at 12:26 am

You are correct. 36.