Wednesday 30 December 2009

Has made it safely to Coventry
Having spent too much money at Kingsley Village is now leaving the homeland to head to Coventry...

Monday 28 December 2009

On a train returning from a trip to Plymouth to visit Liz. Trains have been rather full of people sale shopping!

Friday 25 December 2009

Hope you all had good days. We managed 11 veg with our turkey :-)!

Thursday 24 December 2009

Nadelik lowen ha blydhen nowydh da = Happy Christmas and a good new year.

Wednesday 23 December 2009

Made it safely back home :-).
The Mad Cornish Projectionist is back in his homeland :-), just a few more miles to go :-)!
The M4 is very slow going. Despite leaving Didcot at 1245 we haven't managed to get to Bristol yet.
So the real journey begins. In car with brother....
Successfully made Didcot Parkway only a few minutes late and have managed to get to Argos. Just waiting for brother.
Part one of the journey completed successfully - tube journey, ticket purchase, seat on train to Didcot....
So the grand adventure starts, to head back to Cornwall....
really enjoyed watching his Great Uncle Don in Rite of Spring last night (preview). It is broadcast on BBC Three tonight @ 22.00 - http://ping.fm/2py65 - watch!

Monday 21 December 2009

it is snowing quite heavily here in W12 - may manage to make a snowball on the way home!
quite fancies being a 'Data Wrangler'! This is the definition of one: http://ping.fm/pGxLX

Saturday 19 December 2009

You need to go and watch Sherlock Holmes it is FANTASTIC!

Friday 18 December 2009

Is really p***ed off with his landlord and has decided that he is going to have to move in the new year.
Is looking forward to this evening and weekend :-)
Thinks he is unlikely to be anything but single for the foreseable future :-(

Wednesday 16 December 2009

has lost the will to work.....
is waiting to find out about the most silent projector from BARCO - http://ping.fm/AsJte
is waiting to find out about the most silent projector from BARCO - http://ping.fm/AsJte

Tuesday 15 December 2009

Has had a fantastic day catching up with people and partying. He is just getting home now!

Sunday 13 December 2009

Just a reminder for anyone attending the BKSTS-CTC Christmas Party tomorrow, it is being held at the Odeon Leicester Square as usual.

Saturday 12 December 2009

is not having a good day and is now eating kinder eggs and drinking whiskey!

Wednesday 9 December 2009

so I put aside some money each month to donate to charity. At the end of the year I share it out. Suggestions on who to donate it to please?
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The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 09-12-2009

Hello All,

Welcome to this weeks news digest, available as ever at: http://ping.fm/CbAvR

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Don't forget the BKSTS CTC Projectionist Training on Film Handling at Swindon Cineworld on 26th January 2010 - more details available from http://www.bkstsctc.org
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2009-12-09
Work begins on extra screen at Reel Cinema in Blossom Street, York - WORK has started on creating an extra screen at York’s Reel Cinema.
Source: York Press

2009-12-09
CHRISTIE® SELECTED AS EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CINEMA PROVIDER FOR MOVIE PALACE’S NEW, ALL-DIGITAL MULTIPLEX IN WYOMING - Christie® was selected by Movie Palace, Inc., as the exclusive digital cinema provider for its new all-digital Studio City Stadium 10, a 10-screen classic multiplex theatre in Casper, Wyoming. It is the second Movie Palace theatre in Casper to use Christie digital projectors. The company has also installed the Christie CP2000 series projectors – the world’s most popular digital cinema projector – in its other locations in Cheyenne and Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Source: Digital Content Producer

2009-12-09
Vintage Mobile Cinema to hit the Devon roads again after 34 years - Movies on your mobile will mean something different with the former Ministry of Technology’s Vintage Mobile Cinema starts doing the rounds in March 2010. Emma Gifford explains the project
Source: Devon-Cornwall-Film.co.uk

2009-12-09
2010 World Cup kicking into 3D - The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa will be offered in stereoscopic 3D.
Source: HollywoodReporter

2009-12-09
CINEPLEX ODEON CARLTON 1981-2009 - As the lights dim this weekend on the Carlton Cinemas, the city mourns the loss of another quirky cultural landmark on the block between Yonge and Church. Having swallowed the fruit-market-fate of Maple Leaf Gardens earlier this week, Torontonians now have to say goodbye to the Carlton, too
Source: Kelowna.com

2009-12-09
£1 million needed to secure new St Albans cinema - FILM fans supporting a scheme to restore the old St Albans Odeon as a cinema have to raise less money initially than was originally feared.
Source: Hertad.co.uk

2009-12-09
RealD Signs 3D Pact With Australias Greater Union, Event Cinemas, Birch Carroll & Coyle and Village Cinemas - RealD, the worlds leading 3D cinema provider, announced today agreements with top Australian circuits Amalgamated Holdings (Event Cinemas, Greater Union and Birch Carroll & Coyle) and Village Cinemas for the installation of a total of 139 RealD 3D screens. Installations have already begun across both circuits with completion expected by the end of 2009.
Source: PR Newswire

2009-12-09
WBPI strikes direct digital deployment deals with Asian circuits - Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has entered into a slew of direct digital cinema deployment agreements with key Asian circuits.
Source: Screendaily.com

2009-12-09
Barco Announces Upgraded DP-2000 and DP-3000 Projectors - Toady, Barco has announced that they have teamed up with digital cinema solution provider GDC Technology to combine GDC’s Integrated Media Block with Barco’s cinema projectors, the DP-2000 and the DP-3000. Both of these projectors feature DLP display technology, a 2000:1 contrast ratio, and a 2K HD (2048 x 1080) resolution. “We are very happy to continue our strong partnership with Barco, and to offer the digital cinema industry a total solution with an integrated media block” said Dr. Man-Nang CHONG, founder and CEO of GDC Technology. “The GDC media block has been designed to meet the DCI v1.2 Specification ‘Media Block in Projector Configuration and supports 12-bit XYZ uncompressed playback for resolutions up to 4K. It further features lesser perimeter of security for content and keys compared to an external media server solution and requires less cabling between the media block and storage server.” Barco plans to display the projectors with the new IMB this week at the CineAsia convention from December 8th to the 10th.
Source: Aboutprojectors.com

2009-12-09
Crystal Palace cinema campaigners prepare for battle at planning meeting - After months of lobbying and campaigning, thousands of Crystal Palace residents hoping a vacant bingo hall will become a cinema and not a church will learn the buildings fate next Thursday.
Source: Yourlocalguardian.co.uk

2009-12-09
Digital Cinema Conversion - Whats Taking So Long? -
Source: Blockbustingbook [blog]

2009-12-09
GDC to add digital cinemas at Hong Kongs UA and Broadway circuits - GDC Technology closed deals with Hong Kong’s UA Cinemas and Broadway Circuit to supply DCI-compliant digital-cinema equipment under the virtual-print-fee (VPF) scheme.
Source: Filmjournal
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has a really really interesting day at the FUTURE PROJECTIONS conference & only wishes that he could have stayed for the networking.

Tuesday 8 December 2009

is pleased to have got all his accounts up to date.
For anyone attending BKSTS-CTC Christmas Party, it is now being held at the Odeon Leicester Square (Not West End). Thank you
For anyone attending BKSTS-CTC Christmas Party, it is now being held at the Odeon Leicester Square (Not West End). Thank you

Tuesday 1 December 2009

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NOTICES THIS WEEK:

1. The BKSTS CTC have launched their projectionist handbook, retailing at 15 pounds - details from http://www.bkstsctc.org

2. The next BKSTS CTC projectionist training course will be on 26th January in Swindon. More details at http://www.bksts.com

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The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 01-12-2009

2009-12-01
Odeon installs evacuation chairs for mobility impaired - Odeon has specified Evac+Chair International to provide emergency evacuation chairs to the new cinema complex in Wrexham.
Source: Cinema Business

2009-12-01
Reel signs VPF deal with Arts Alliance Media - Digital cinema technology, content and deployment specialist Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has signed an agreement with Reel Cinemas to digitise Reel’s entire circuit in the UK
Source: Cinema Business

2009-12-01
Leicester Square redevelopment will threaten home of cinema - Cinema fans have hit out at the "highly destructive" development of Leicester Square which they claim threatens its future as the home of British film.
Source: This is London

2009-12-01
St Albans cinema plans - dream is in your hands - THE man trying to make a big screen dream come true for St Albans is urging people to put their money where their mouths are.
Source: Hartsad

2009-12-01
Cineworld plans Irish expansion - Britains second-biggest movie-theatre operator has said it wants to open up cinemas in Ireland because people of the high number of film-goers here.
Source: Irish Times

2009-12-01
Final stage of demolition work on old cinema takes place - MOST of the Art Deco frontage of the Doncaster Odeon was pulled down yesterday in the final stage of the buildings demolition, leaving the site ready for redevelopment in 2010.
Source: The Star

2009-12-01
Actress backs new cinema for town - Actress Tilda Swinton has backed efforts to reopen a cinema in Nairn for the first time since the 1970s.
Source: BBC News

2009-12-01
Vue takes over Wood Green Showcase cinema - SHOWCASE cinema in Wood Green will close this week for refurbishment and re-open as one of the Vue franchise.
Source: Haringey Independent

2009-12-01
Of Dollars and Values - The world’s exhibitors are in the process of spending close to $10 billion to transform their theatres from film to digital. One of the goals of this transformation is to enable exhibitors to offer their patrons the opportunity to see movies in clean, crisp 3D. And while I share the same passion that many of you do for movies of all kinds and I want the movie business to flourish and grow, I also believe strongly that there are more important applications for this technology than just having the ability to show Shrek Forever After in 3D. Someday soon, as was demonstrated at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, digital cinema technology may be used to save lives.
Source: Digital Cinema Report

2009-12-01
Cinemark, Imax Sue over XD - Cinemark USA and Imax Corporation have filed lawsuits against each other over Cinemark’s XD digital theaters. Cinemark, the third largest theater chain in the U.S., filed a suit on November 4 seeking to invalidate two patents Imax holds on “Conversion of a Cinema Theater to a Super Cinema Theater.” Imax countered on November 12 with a complaint that alleges fraud, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, and tortious interference, and seeks an injunction to prevent Cinemark from “producing, using, and selling its XD system.”??
Source: Digital Cinema Report

2009-12-01
£1m needed to buy former Odeon and start plans to open a new cinema in London Road, St Albans - FILM fans must help raise £1 million if their dream of a cinema in St Albans city centre is to become a reality.
Source: This is London

2009-12-01
Disneys A Christmas Carol breaks new ground as the first ever fully accessible 3D movie - This weekend marks a milestone in UK cinema - the release of the first ever 3D movie that is accessible to people with hearing or sight loss.
Source: Beecareful.info

2009-12-01
St Albans MP Anne Main backs London Road cinema project - AN AMBITIOUS project to transform the dilapidated Odeon in London Road into an art deco cinema has won the backing of St Albans MP Anne Main.
Source: St Alban Reviews
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