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Empire Theatre, 415 DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks, North Dakota. In early November, 1919 construction was being completed on the New Grand, the largest theater in town ever built for the purpose of showing only moving pictures. Minneapolis architects Beuchner and Orth, who had just recently designed the new Grand Forks County Courthouse, planned a modern and impressive 948-seat movia palace for the city. Special basement tunnels were designed to insure that patrons would not get a chill from a concrete floor built against the ground.
On November 10, opening night, a foot of snow due to the season's first blizzard did not stop residents from filling the new Grand Theatre. Admission prices were 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson was the first Vitaphone feature at the Grand in 1927. The first "100 percent talking picture" was the first all-talking film made, The Lights of New York, opening at the Grand the fall of 1928. In 1930 the Grand closed for extensive remodeling and reopened with an all new 3000 bulb marquee, a new box office on the sidewalk line and a new screen, sound system and projectors.
Moviegoers again lined up around the block to be treated to a new Italian Renaissance decor acoustic treatments, and the first North Dakota theater with washed air cooling. Now a Part of the Paramount-Publix chain, the theatre was rechristened "The Paramount".
The theater again saw a gradual facelift and modernization in the early fifties, capped off with the addition of Cinemascope in 1954 and an impressive new marquee vertically spelling the new name E-M-P-I-R-E in brilliant flashing lights. Cliff Knoll, then general manager of the Paramount, said the company renamed the theater to express the recent changes in North Dakota. With the development of a new empire of oil, land development, and industry, the Empire became symbolic of the area's progressive forward movement.
For years the Empire remained the prestige theater in downtown Grand Forks. A quarter century later, plagued by poor attendance, the Empire closed on January 8, 1987, and reopened on as a 99-cent theater on July 17th. As attendance improved and planning for the multiplex construction project across town dragged out over another six years, the Empire was changed back into a first-run movie house in the summer of 1994. This policy remained in effect until it finally ceased operation as a commercial movie theatre on April 7, 1994, four weeks before the new multiplex (by this time with ten screens) finally opened. At that time the Empire was in its 75th continuous year of showing films.
For the rest of the year the building sat dark, serving as a convenient storage space for Midco while behind the scenes the works were in gear for the next major step in its existence. Then, on December 22, 1994, officials from the Midcontinent Corporation traveled to Grand Forks to make a formal donation of the historic structure to the North Valley Arts Council. It would have a new life as a multi-purpose downtown arts center. Renovation of the theater and an adjacent storefront building into a multipurpose arts facility began in November, 1995. Renovations were hit with a major setback when a flood caused $100-200,000 damage to the facility in April 1997. Despite heavy personal losses by nearly all its members, the board of directors voted unanimously to continue the project. It would be a vote of confidence in Grand Forks.
The Empire reopened on March 27, 1998, with a reception for major donors and a performance by classical guitarist Berta Rojas. Separating from the North Valley Arts Council, the Empire became a stand alone 501(c)3 non-profit organization in July, 2002, and continues to host a variety of theater productions, performing arts, films, concerts, speakers, community events, and meetings throughout the year.
Projector in the Orpheum Theatre projection booth.
The Orpheum was built in 1922 and it was designed by John Eberson. It is the first theater to show signs of his famous atmospheric theater design. It hosted weekly vaudeville until 1929 then it showed movies until 1976. It was closed in 1976 and reopened year round in 2000. It is the crown jewel of Wichita movie theaters.
NRIS #80001473. Added in 1980.
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An American 35mm 'toy' projector from around 1920. Rare model.
Manufacturer: A.B. Cummings
Type: 'professional model'
March 8, 2011 - We were experimenting with the projector that we use for the New Beginnings seminar. It's like having a big screen TV! We need to invest in one of these.
OId projector on top; new on the bottom. It's a bit of an upgrade in every respect.
So we've had an NEC projector for many years now, a 1024x768 thing that's nothing fancy but did a good job in a dark room projected against a wall or a sheet or (more recently for us) an actual projector screen. Fun for watching TV and movies at night.
Not so great for doing anything with ambient light, though, so watching during the day was always a struggle to black out a fairly bright living room with several windows and an adjacent dining room. A bit of a pain in the winter, way more so in the summer, and a pain for me in any case during the day since I work from home and could in theory be using it but generally didn't bother.
The new one is significantly bigger (actually a bit bigger than I even expected), but more importantly it's widescreen HD and so much brighter its nuts. We can watch something and eat dinner with the lights on without a problem. Thrilling improvement.
Camera projector mechanism from France. No maker's name. Number 1032. Probably made by René Bunzli and Pierre-Victor Continsouza
More info: cinegraphica.blogspot.be/2011/10/mechanism-bunzli-contins...
"Electric Eye madness" reaches some kind of pinnacle here, with a projector that can make your slides dimmer if they seem very bright. Not a good idea for snow or beach scenes where exposure was correct on the subject itself, and wastefully throwing away a large fraction of the light (and heat) produced by the projection lamp.
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This large bulb from an old Kodak Pageant film projector was connected to a variac to control filament brightness. An LED flashlight was used to illuminate the various parts of the bulb while it was on.
Neon shooting of a girl using a projector \ Неоновая съемка девушки с использованием проектора
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This is Mike's home-made LCD projector movie player thing. He laid the screen from an LCD monitor over an old overhead projector as an inexpensive alternative to buying a real projector or 10' TV.
One of the original projectors at the Des Moines Cinema (Washington State). Recently watched "Dreamgirls" at this fun, old theater.
Presenters often don't know which keys to press to get their screen onto the projector. The projectors in Te Papa are great because they have this help screen which covers a wide range of common laptops.
I thought that the white hair would allow for a plainer canvas for the projector to play over, but as it turned out, with darker colours, it just made great black streaks. So I made the colours brighter, and I like the result :)
Actually, the projectors were situated at corners of the room projecting on to the globe, which was surfaced with projector screen stuff.
This was originally a Haydon & Urry Eragraph projector from 1897. Someone however completely transformed the projector with skilled craftsmanship. It looks like the back of the projector has become the front.
When this transformation was done is unknown.
A Channel Tunnel loco being lifted of its bogies ready to be placed onto awaiting low loader to be transported to Brush Traction in Loughborough.
Neon shooting in the bathtub with a projector \ Неоновая съемка в ванне с проектором
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