imagine watching a small scale show at the theater when all of a sudden your entire seating area rotates and your suddenly watching an entirely different show with other random people.
Imagine your laughing on a small comedic show then all of the sudden the whole entire room starts rotating towards that horror/ language movie behind the theater. The guy who is doing a comedic show will be flabbergasted as he watch his family friendly audience facing the horror/language movie on the other side of the room.
This would be very dangerous to operate while a show is going on because people can get pinned between a rotating and a stationary wall possibly trying to leave while in a panic over what's happening. I assume there are several interlocks in place besides the wall panel shown here to prevent the seating area from moving while occupied. Back in 1974, a Disney cast member was crushed to death by a rotating stage in the "America Sings" attraction at Disneyland, being pinned between the moving wall of the stage and the stationary wall of the audience section. They eventually installed breakaway walls to prevent this from happening again and the ride closed down for good in 1988.
they have a similar thing they did in alw cinderella (and i beleive in cats) in the gillian lynn. but people are told about it and you cant leave your seat during the act and it takes allot of paperwork and isnt that impressive for what it costs to do
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for attending. All those in the cheap seats, please remain where you are and we will turn you round so you are facing a blank wall. Everyone else, enjoy the show.
it only makes sense in an education setting, allowing you to have two therters for different classes and rehearsals but one big one for shows. in a professional setting there would be issues with audio bleeding between the two areas.
@@MaxLai_0104 unlikly to be good enough durring a show as well as rather difficult. high frequancies are easy to handle, its the low ones that are hard. its the gaps around the moving walls and floor that need to be correctly sealed to stop and reduce noise. on top of that the room would have vastly diffrent acustic properties compared to having the seats in the main therter vs the mini one. its not impossable and could be done. however even places that have multipule standard theatres can have noise isolation issues.
@@MaxLai_0104 Timberlane HS in New Hampshire ran into the soundproofing issue with their performing arts center's rotating section. The cozy little recital hall provided by the rotating section becomes unusable if the main auditorium is in use. Neat idea, but probably not worth the coin for the use they ended up getting out of it (sort of like the hydraulic lifts which let part of the floor be part of the stage, the floor, or the pit).
@@gantmj kind of weird,tbh. glad to see someone even mention the strangeness of this, in the comments (then I noticed) Maybe, the metaphor is that "Reality as we know it, is actually 2 parts. The part we can perceive and the part that is about to be revealed" ...
I work at the Sydney Opera House. We have two rows (A and B) that can go underneath the Concert Hall stage to extend the space on stage. However THIS is next level. I couldn't stop saying "oh my god" as it slowly revealed itself. This is a HUGE game changer. You can have two shows going at once, a big show and a smaller show, or you can have a mega show!? I am incredibly impressed
This is amazing. If you have a small-scale production you have seating and if you have a premier you just rotate the seating back into the main house. Brilliant.
My old high school's theater system (that I worked on 30 years ago) just got gutted and redone. Ima gonna have to attend a graduation there or something so I can check it out. I spent so many hours as a kid doing completely unauthorized (and effective) repairs to its ancient rheostat based lighting. I still have the manual I wrote back in 1986.
Haha, I was in lighting in highschool (A different one, I can tell) where someone long ago did something similar to what you did. Everyone (including me!) that was in lighting there followed the rules and layout created by a heroically dedicated person about a decade prior.
@@emlyfox Thanks: it's on yellowed tractor feed paper from an old Epson dot matrix printer, and the text is barely legible. Eventually I'll re-typeset it. I'm told that a copy of it was used for many years, tucked away in the giant metal box that was the lighting control system. I cut a lot of classes while I was working on it, then turned in the paper as my final for my English composition class. The teacher (who just passed away, sadly) gave me credit for a missed paper on top of the final grade, since it was a pretty ambitious project.
Unauthorized but they used this manual (that you somehow turned in for and English comp class) for years instead of getting your ass reamed for touching shit you weren't supposed to? Sure buddy.
@@AlanCanon2222 Those kinds of teachers are the best. I was a person who liked archives, so instead of doing an academic research paper arguing in favor of a policy proposal as our capstone project, I turned in a comparative analysis of about ten different events with reactions from national news media/magazines and our own school newspaper. Everything from world war II to that time when a graduate of our school tried to kill the president of the united states. Pretty fascinating paper, really, even though it was completely off topic. We clearly worked hard on it, even though it was a labor of love (or maybe obsession).
The Earl Snapp Auditorium (c1972, Indian Hill HS, Cincinnati) has similar features with two balconies that can be opened to the theater. They don't rotate, but have giant front walls that automatically roll into pockets. When the balconies aren't being used for productions, they are large classrooms. At the time, the theater had every bell and whistle imaginable. A 23-rope counterweight system, a huge hydraulic orchestra pit and a control booth that rivaled Broadway. Your school looks just as special.
imagine you’re watching one of two plays that eventually converge into the same storyline and you have to explain to the other group how your characters got there.
@@user2C47 No it's likely a three phase motor and a gearbox. To move something like this you need lots of juice and a large institution such as a school will likely have three phase power.
@@dougaltolan3017 Ya, I wouldn't deny that. Parasitism pays well, until the people revolt. Things like this are a flex to show off the money they have to waste.
Did some research, this is in a suburb north of Chicago on a massive high school campus (4000 students). I agree it's pretty silly. The land value may be high here, but it's all super low density development. No reason for this kind of feature. Large schools in rich areas have money to waste, especially after No Child Left Behind turned school funding into a vicious "rich get richer" scheme.
In The Netherlands, there is a theatre with a similar rotating concept. It was developed as the SceneAround system and is used to stage the most succesful theatre show of the nation.
My old high school (Northmont High School, Clayton, Ohio) had pretty much the exact same thing. The two turntable sections could be used as lecture halls or as rehearsal spaces, making part of the auditorium practical to use during the school week or during events when the auditorium did not require the full seating capacity.
My high school had one of these. They'd do band and orchestra in the small theater and the offices for the teachers were behind the small stage and theater class would practice in the big space. When they'd have a big combined concert for the parents and what not they'd rotate the seating to accommodate everyone in the big theater.
the youtube algorithm works in mysterious ways, in many cases it is bad, but in some cases it brings us together. I am glad this is one of those times.
I have a friend who went to this high school. It has consistently ranked as one of the best in the country. It does not surprise me that they have this.
That's what I'm saying. This seems a bit excessive and pricey. Hope it's not a public school. Then again, a public highschool in my area just build a $2m auditorium.
@@abundantharmony I get what you are saying. A lot of people think some schools utilize excessive funds for their schools, more so for "wealthy communities" and do nothing for "low-income communities" which is a real problem. However, public schools can accept donations from outside sources to fund various projects or programs and donors can specify the donation go specifically to that school and not the district to distribute. Maybe this theater was donated or funded by someone.
@@abundantharmony It's a public school in a wealthy area. I went here, and if this seems pricey, it's nothing compared to some of the other stuff in the school.
Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Center has something very similar. It was built in the early 1980’s and had two rotating balconies. It made the theatre very flexible but there were initial issues with acoustics. Apparently the sound travelled differently from when the the seating was fully open and when the balconies were rotated closed. They eventually figured it out and from what I understand, it’s been very successful.
The high school I went to had two of these that served as large lecture classrooms and rotated to become part of the auditorium. Was on one when it was rotating so slowly. Cool concept!
At Disneyland, they used to have a show called the carousel of progress, the entire theater was able to rotate to 4 different show scenes, same with its predecessor, America sings. You can still experience this at Disney World in Florida
That is exactly what I was thinking of. Though with the prep required for this and the slow speed, I am guessing that this would be done before the show, not during it,
Went to see a show in London and for the second act they rotated the lower seating so it turns into an in-the-round stage for a ball dancing sequence. The shock and giddiness i felt was immesurable
Years ago, there was a theater on Colorado Boulevard in Denver called the Cooper Theater. Although it didn’t rotate like the section of the theater shown in this video did, it was a round shaped theater built in 1964 that showed CinemaScope movies and had a curved screen. As a kid, I saw Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Return of the Jedi there. Unfortunately, the Cooper was torn down in 1994 and a Barnes and Noble bookstore was built there.
Reminds me of the rotating theater at Disneyland that crushed that poor girl to death. And the other cast members and audience thought the screaming was part of the show...
The at the Yvon Arnold theatre in Londons west end the stage and stalls are designed to rotate mid performance to change the stage from a traditional proscenium arch to in the round. Basically the stalls swap with the stage mid performance and then change back. It was used during the ball scene In Cinderella.
I do remember as a kid when I went to church on Sundays for the daily "performance" the center stage would rotate 360º - there were 3 sections, one for the minister to do his "play" another for the choir and the 3rd was two levels which included a huge swimming pool on top for pool parties, I think they called it "baptisms," and the lower level was just a stage for special performances. This was a massive, circular playhouse...I mean church, it had only one massive seating area and the rest of the building was offices, classrooms and smaller venues.
100° is a strange amount for a turning stage. The three "sets" only occupied a total space of about a quarter of the circular stage? What was in the other 260° of the circle?
My university has something similar. There is one building with four auditoriums (one big and three smaller). The three smaller ones could be turned around to connect to the big one to make one huge auditorium (aula q at the VUB in Belgium).
I once had a dream about a movie theater where the seats rotated to face another screen at the back of the room. This is somewhat similar to that dream.
This could actually be kind of cool to use for scene changes during a play, of course it's probably not recommended to rotate it while people are sitting there... But you could actually switch from a small interior scene to a big outdoor scene with more impact than just restricting/changing the same stage.
It probably takes too long to do, so is fairly impractical to do during a production, and the mechanism probably isn't built to handle the weight of all those people, to say nothing of the safety aspect.
How is the soundproofing between these two spaces? Like if you’re having a solo piano recital in the small theatre and a Wagner opera with a 45-piece orchestra in the larger theatre, would the people in the smaller theatre be able to hear sound bleeding through from the larger hall?
This is a high school. It is not a lecture hall. There is actually 2 rotating sections of this theatre. While trying to rehearse a production in the little theatre with a main event in the big theatre it has been found that because the ceiling is only one piece- the sound systems can be heard but people performing seems to be ok. Take that as you will for how productive they are while both spaces are in use
so we put the people with little kids in the rotating room so when they start crying or asking for a hotdog or whatever they just get turned around into a play area
I'm imagining you fill the big auditorium space with paid extras who all have like. Glowing eyes led masks. Halfway through the show the small theatre rotates to become the bigger one and the entire (real) audience turns to see this crowd of glowing eyes all staring at them. Then the fake audience turns back towards the front and acts like a regular audience for the rest of the night unless required to do something creepy again and the show continues on the bigger stage
I worked on Convention Centre in Adelaide and we made a similar style thing massive big seating area that spun around to turn the are into a theatre or a massive big open area for functions. Mega bucks they cost.
imagine watching a small scale show at the theater when all of a sudden your entire seating area rotates and your suddenly watching an entirely different show with other random people.
It is a good way to surprise someone for a show like Surprise Surprise or This Is Your Life.
Imagine your laughing on a small comedic show then all of the sudden the whole entire room starts rotating towards that horror/ language movie behind the theater. The guy who is doing a comedic show will be flabbergasted as he watch his family friendly audience facing the horror/language movie on the other side of the room.
This would be very dangerous to operate while a show is going on because people can get pinned between a rotating and a stationary wall possibly trying to leave while in a panic over what's happening. I assume there are several interlocks in place besides the wall panel shown here to prevent the seating area from moving while occupied.
Back in 1974, a Disney cast member was crushed to death by a rotating stage in the "America Sings" attraction at Disneyland, being pinned between the moving wall of the stage and the stationary wall of the audience section. They eventually installed breakaway walls to prevent this from happening again and the ride closed down for good in 1988.
Imagine watching a play , falling to sleep , and when you wake up your are watching an orchestra , that would be epic .
they have a similar thing they did in alw cinderella (and i beleive in cats) in the gillian lynn. but people are told about it and you cant leave your seat during the act and it takes allot of paperwork and isnt that impressive for what it costs to do
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for attending. All those in the cheap seats, please remain where you are and we will turn you round so you are facing a blank wall. Everyone else, enjoy the show.
Rip those ppl that got stuck
At first i thought you are the performer ahahaha
Isnt that a movie theater wall there you see a line where the screen could go down
🤣
but they're all facing the same way?
This is so smart, you can rent out two separate performing spaces or hold a large production and you still have a rehearsal space
it only makes sense in an education setting, allowing you to have two therters for different classes and rehearsals but one big one for shows. in a professional setting there would be issues with audio bleeding between the two areas.
@@TheDude8984 Soundproofing?
@@MaxLai_0104 unlikly to be good enough durring a show as well as rather difficult. high frequancies are easy to handle, its the low ones that are hard. its the gaps around the moving walls and floor that need to be correctly sealed to stop and reduce noise.
on top of that the room would have vastly diffrent acustic properties compared to having the seats in the main therter vs the mini one.
its not impossable and could be done. however even places that have multipule standard theatres can have noise isolation issues.
@@MaxLai_0104 Timberlane HS in New Hampshire ran into the soundproofing issue with their performing arts center's rotating section. The cozy little recital hall provided by the rotating section becomes unusable if the main auditorium is in use. Neat idea, but probably not worth the coin for the use they ended up getting out of it (sort of like the hydraulic lifts which let part of the floor be part of the stage, the floor, or the pit).
The only time is that it cost as much as 3 theaters
So the TH-cam algorithm just found this completely silent video from 13 years ago and thought to show us all.
I'm so happy this is AWESOME.
Same
But on what metrics or basis? Just bizarre, could just be a bug but i am not complaining. It is still better then the usual recommendations.
This is a metaphor, for what I do not know but, can only venture a guess
I came here from a video of a rotating jail that I was randomly recommended.
@@gantmj kind of weird,tbh. glad to see someone even mention the strangeness of this, in the comments (then I noticed)
Maybe, the metaphor is that "Reality as we know it, is actually 2 parts. The part we can perceive and the part that is about to be revealed"
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I work at the Sydney Opera House. We have two rows (A and B) that can go underneath the Concert Hall stage to extend the space on stage. However THIS is next level. I couldn't stop saying "oh my god" as it slowly revealed itself. This is a HUGE game changer. You can have two shows going at once, a big show and a smaller show, or you can have a mega show!? I am incredibly impressed
This is amazing. If you have a small-scale production you have seating and if you have a premier you just rotate the seating back into the main house. Brilliant.
*Rotates people outside*
"Times up! Gst out."
My old high school's theater system (that I worked on 30 years ago) just got gutted and redone. Ima gonna have to attend a graduation there or something so I can check it out. I spent so many hours as a kid doing completely unauthorized (and effective) repairs to its ancient rheostat based lighting. I still have the manual I wrote back in 1986.
Haha, I was in lighting in highschool (A different one, I can tell) where someone long ago did something similar to what you did. Everyone (including me!) that was in lighting there followed the rules and layout created by a heroically dedicated person about a decade prior.
You sound like a really awesome person! I would love to see a copy of the manual you wrote.
@@emlyfox Thanks: it's on yellowed tractor feed paper from an old Epson dot matrix printer, and the text is barely legible. Eventually I'll re-typeset it. I'm told that a copy of it was used for many years, tucked away in the giant metal box that was the lighting control system. I cut a lot of classes while I was working on it, then turned in the paper as my final for my English composition class. The teacher (who just passed away, sadly) gave me credit for a missed paper on top of the final grade, since it was a pretty ambitious project.
Unauthorized but they used this manual (that you somehow turned in for and English comp class) for years instead of getting your ass reamed for touching shit you weren't supposed to?
Sure buddy.
@@AlanCanon2222 Those kinds of teachers are the best. I was a person who liked archives, so instead of doing an academic research paper arguing in favor of a policy proposal as our capstone project, I turned in a comparative analysis of about ten different events with reactions from national news media/magazines and our own school newspaper. Everything from world war II to that time when a graduate of our school tried to kill the president of the united states. Pretty fascinating paper, really, even though it was completely off topic.
We clearly worked hard on it, even though it was a labor of love (or maybe obsession).
The Earl Snapp Auditorium (c1972, Indian Hill HS, Cincinnati) has similar features with two balconies that can be opened to the theater. They don't rotate, but have giant front walls that automatically roll into pockets. When the balconies aren't being used for productions, they are large classrooms. At the time, the theater had every bell and whistle imaginable. A 23-rope counterweight system, a huge hydraulic orchestra pit and a control booth that rivaled Broadway. Your school looks just as special.
Wait, what do you mean a hydraulic pit?
I’m sure it does 🙄🥱
@@Moire9 - It is an orchestra pit, that raises and lowers into the floor hydraulically.
Looked it up, about 20 minutes away from me.
the Rea Auditorium (Sewickley Academy) has the same feature. Multi-use theaters are such a good idea.
imagine you’re watching one of two plays that eventually converge into the same storyline and you have to explain to the other group how your characters got there.
I would like to see the machinery that powers this. Reminds me of the carousel of progress in disney world.
EXACTLY what I was thinking!!!! ❤
I was wondering if that’s what this was going to be when I clicked on the video 😂
@@alildaisy2180 Same here.
Probably just a 2HP or so induction motor and a gearbox.
@@user2C47 No it's likely a three phase motor and a gearbox. To move something like this you need lots of juice and a large institution such as a school will likely have three phase power.
this must be a very rare situation where you have enough money to afford a rotating room but are limited in space
Don't fool yourself, this is just silly theatre people being silly theatre people.
@@l337pwnage silly rich theatre people (the company that sold this)
@@dougaltolan3017 Ya, I wouldn't deny that. Parasitism pays well, until the people revolt. Things like this are a flex to show off the money they have to waste.
I thought only Disney could afford to make a rotating theatre like the Carousel of Progress.
Did some research, this is in a suburb north of Chicago on a massive high school campus (4000 students).
I agree it's pretty silly. The land value may be high here, but it's all super low density development. No reason for this kind of feature.
Large schools in rich areas have money to waste, especially after No Child Left Behind turned school funding into a vicious "rich get richer" scheme.
In The Netherlands, there is a theatre with a similar rotating concept. It was developed as the SceneAround system and is used to stage the most succesful theatre show of the nation.
My old high school (Northmont High School, Clayton, Ohio) had pretty much the exact same thing. The two turntable sections could be used as lecture halls or as rehearsal spaces, making part of the auditorium practical to use during the school week or during events when the auditorium did not require the full seating capacity.
Reminds me of the Carousel of Progress. I'd love to be at one of these.
We have something like this in the Netherlands where they do it mid show to go to different sets, so freaking awesome!
I love how this is coming up on a lot of recommended feeds now!
So the TH-cam algorithm just discovered this 13-year-old silent video and decided to share it with everyone. I find that to be fantastic.
My high school had one of these. They'd do band and orchestra in the small theater and the offices for the teachers were behind the small stage and theater class would practice in the big space. When they'd have a big combined concert for the parents and what not they'd rotate the seating to accommodate everyone in the big theater.
the youtube algorithm works in mysterious ways, in many cases it is bad, but in some cases it brings us together. I am glad this is one of those times.
I have a friend who went to this high school. It has consistently ranked as one of the best in the country. It does not surprise me that they have this.
Makes you wonder if the kids in this high school have actually done a play on the carousel of progress.
That's what I'm saying. This seems a bit excessive and pricey. Hope it's not a public school. Then again, a public highschool in my area just build a $2m auditorium.
@@abundantharmony I get what you are saying. A lot of people think some schools utilize excessive funds for their schools, more so for "wealthy communities" and do nothing for "low-income communities" which is a real problem. However, public schools can accept donations from outside sources to fund various projects or programs and donors can specify the donation go specifically to that school and not the district to distribute. Maybe this theater was donated or funded by someone.
@@abundantharmony It's a public school in a wealthy area. I went here, and if this seems pricey, it's nothing compared to some of the other stuff in the school.
@@strix.1 It definitely came out of the taxpayer's pocket.
@@abundantharmony well, hopefully it has a necessary use!!
I've been there, and the orchestra plays in a real pit under the stage. The area is behind the screens you see on the front of the stage.
Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Center has something very similar. It was built in the early 1980’s and had two rotating balconies. It made the theatre very flexible but there were initial issues with acoustics. Apparently the sound travelled differently from when the the seating was fully open and when the balconies were rotated closed. They eventually figured it out and from what I understand, it’s been very successful.
Yes, TH-cam just started recommending this to everyone.
Oh the mysteries of the algorithms...
Lmao
yes
Very cool! I didn't know this existed! Thank you!
The high school I went to had two of these that served as large lecture classrooms and rotated to become part of the auditorium. Was on one when it was rotating so slowly. Cool concept!
At Disneyland, they used to have a show called the carousel of progress, the entire theater was able to rotate to 4 different show scenes, same with its predecessor, America sings.
You can still experience this at Disney World in Florida
That is exactly what I was thinking of. Though with the prep required for this and the slow speed, I am guessing that this would be done before the show, not during it,
I remember seeing both shows at Disneyland when I was young.
Yep, an intern got crushed between the walls during the America Sings part. At least, I think they amended the safety procedures afterward.
Oh no I’m going to miss the show!
Leaving this here for 13 years later
No
Clayton County, GA has a nearly identical theatre that has been integrated into the Martha Stillwell School.
A very moving experience.
Very funny
Went to see a show in London and for the second act they rotated the lower seating so it turns into an in-the-round stage for a ball dancing sequence. The shock and giddiness i felt was immesurable
this feels like part of an analog horror
"Are these characters auto, auto, erotica?" _"No we have no animatronics here these are the real miracle workers of Jurassic Park"_
Years ago, there was a theater on Colorado Boulevard in Denver called the Cooper Theater. Although it didn’t rotate like the section of the theater shown in this video did, it was a round shaped theater built in 1964 that showed CinemaScope movies and had a curved screen. As a kid, I saw Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Return of the Jedi there. Unfortunately, the Cooper was torn down in 1994 and a Barnes and Noble bookstore was built there.
I've been to this place. I think it's in broomfield CO. really nice seats.
Apparently, the algorithm wants us to see this after 13 years.
Ahh, I remember this. They still had this when I graduated in 2017
Waiting for Tom Scott to post a video about a unique rotating high school theater.
Carousel Of Progress be like
I was thinking exactly the same thing! Thanks for mentioning it!
have a great big beautiful tomorrow 😉
I was thinking about that
Me at Disney thinking the exact same thing
Reminds me of the Mr. DNA bit in Jurassic Park
The theatre at the football hall of fame does something different but still rotates and it is awesome!
Reminds me of the rotating theater at Disneyland that crushed that poor girl to death. And the other cast members and audience thought the screaming was part of the show...
That was in America Sings.
R.I.P. Debbie Stone 😢
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Imagine you get up to use the restroom and you come back and the theater has doubled in size
The at the Yvon Arnold theatre in Londons west end the stage and stalls are designed to rotate mid performance to change the stage from a traditional proscenium arch to in the round. Basically the stalls swap with the stage mid performance and then change back. It was used during the ball scene In Cinderella.
Legend has it that Matthew R. Godlewski is still there staring to this day.
This is what I come to TH-cam for. Content like this :)
Super cool! What is the purpose or Reason for this besides it being cool that you can see two different stages?
So this one had to age in 13 years before it was deemed ready by the algorithms. It better go viral now.
Looks a bit odd, but still cool, and a grait way to expand capacity when needed, and still have a small space for small stuff
lol Stevenson is close to my school. Awesome
This is exactly the type of video that would be posted over ten years ago
I do remember as a kid when I went to church on Sundays for the daily "performance" the center stage would rotate 360º - there were 3 sections, one for the minister to do his "play" another for the choir and the 3rd was two levels which included a huge swimming pool on top for pool parties, I think they called it "baptisms," and the lower level was just a stage for special performances. This was a massive, circular playhouse...I mean church, it had only one massive seating area and the rest of the building was offices, classrooms and smaller venues.
100° is a strange amount for a turning stage. The three "sets" only occupied a total space of about a quarter of the circular stage? What was in the other 260° of the circle?
@@DaveTexas Ha...sorry, meant 360°
Was at one of these in puy du fuy in France, so cool!!!
Oh my god I finally found it.
I really like the 3 pixels that represent the rotating theater
When the show is popular so you open up the extended seating area lol
I'm sorry we're sold out. Hold my Beer.....
There's a Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow!
If ya know, ya know! ;)
Idk why this was recommended to me but something tells me I’m going to enjoy it
Interesting & informative narration!
I need to see Tom Scott talk about this!
I know right seems just like something he'd cover
Just like in Disney’s Carousel of Progress and America Sings!
nahh i thought it was gonna be like the carousel of progress 💀
My university has something similar. There is one building with four auditoriums (one big and three smaller). The three smaller ones could be turned around to connect to the big one to make one huge auditorium (aula q at the VUB in Belgium).
they do this in the dutch musical Soldaat van Oranje. The audience rotates thru different setd
I just watched the making of video for that and it looks incredible. Thanks for mentioning it.
It's like that scene from jurassic park
Just what I thought
Hold on there sparky - are you telling me you STARED, EDITED, FILMED and holly f-ing shit DIRECT this masterpeice?
lol we have that in our school?
I had a dream just like this years ago lol this is trippy, like watching a dream come true
I’ve had nightmares about theaters like this. This is like that fuckin diner scene in Mulholland Drive for me
*This was 13 years ago?!*
Welcome, to my fellow TH-cam viewers who have been brought here 13 years after publication by the mysteries of the TH-cam algorithm.
And a warm greeting to you as well, fellow traveler. The great mystery of the algorithm. Why now, YT?
I've been here 15 years.
I saw this when it dropped.
There were 124 videos on TH-cam back then.
I once had a dream about a movie theater where the seats rotated to face another screen at the back of the room. This is somewhat similar to that dream.
@TomScottGo is probably gonna visit this.
Today we have been gathered by the recommendation AI
This looks like straight out of a Tom Scott video.
does this work like the carousel of progress
No, that is more like a big doughnut rotating around the center.
Thank you algorithm, this is actually really cool!
🎶 There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day... 🎶
I remember going to Disney World as a kid and seeing the Carrousel of Progress The stage rotated.
No.. Sorry... The audience rotates around 4 stages.
That's so cool!
I wish I could have that!
This could actually be kind of cool to use for scene changes during a play, of course it's probably not recommended to rotate it while people are sitting there... But you could actually switch from a small interior scene to a big outdoor scene with more impact than just restricting/changing the same stage.
Great idea! I was thinking just that.👍
It probably takes too long to do, so is fairly impractical to do during a production, and the mechanism probably isn't built to handle the weight of all those people, to say nothing of the safety aspect.
Wow that's cool
I never heard of or seen a rotating theater before
How is the soundproofing between these two spaces? Like if you’re having a solo piano recital in the small theatre and a Wagner opera with a 45-piece orchestra in the larger theatre, would the people in the smaller theatre be able to hear sound bleeding through from the larger hall?
That situation obviously wouldn't happen. The circle thing is supposed to be a lecture hall
The wall looks like it's at least a foot thick. You can do a lot of sound isolation in a foot.
This is a high school. It is not a lecture hall. There is actually 2 rotating sections of this theatre. While trying to rehearse a production in the little theatre with a main event in the big theatre it has been found that because the ceiling is only one piece- the sound systems can be heard but people performing seems to be ok. Take that as you will for how productive they are while both spaces are in use
this reminds me of The Carousel Of Progress at WDW!!!
This is my high school and I was a student during the first few years after it's opening.
so we put the people with little kids in the rotating room so when they start crying or asking for a hotdog or whatever they just get turned around into a play area
That’s Numberwang! Let’s rotate the board!
A bit like in the French Puy du fou, le dernier panache
I'm imagining you fill the big auditorium space with paid extras who all have like. Glowing eyes led masks. Halfway through the show the small theatre rotates to become the bigger one and the entire (real) audience turns to see this crowd of glowing eyes all staring at them. Then the fake audience turns back towards the front and acts like a regular audience for the rest of the night unless required to do something creepy again and the show continues on the bigger stage
Now imagine this with the original Thunderbirds theme song.
And that's how with a few modifications, you can turn one theatre into two theatres.
TH-cam kept recommending this. More questions than answers.
I worked on Convention Centre in Adelaide and we made a similar style thing massive big seating area that spun around to turn the are into a theatre or a massive big open area for functions. Mega bucks they cost.
please leave my recommendations alone i am begging you i've been seeing this same exact video as my first recommendation for days now
In all seriousness, I think this is a pretty cool concept
What is this? Carousel of Progress?
I read the title and thought:
Wait this exists why is this not a thing elsewhere
I wonder how much that would cost to build nowadays?
Not saying this video is old, but it's before movies had sound...