ODEON BARNET
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- Odeon Barnet is a beautiful cinema. This video was shot in 2000. It's a Triple-screen cinema. In the former stalls are 2 smaller cinemas. Both have Rear Film projection via a single mirror (per screen). We see behind the screen and the distance to the projection rooms. A very interesting video. We have a great host, who you all have seen before. Enjoy This is a really enjoyable video.
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That must have been a very odd conversion to use rear projection. I would also assume there must be a fair bit of wasted space as there must be some kind of void between the projection room and the rear of the screen. It is however a really nice looking cinema which I believe is still open as an Everyman cinema.
Hello Cjbx11. Thank you for your comment. It certainly was odd seeing rear projection, but not odd seeing a side angle mirror, as I had done relief at Odeon Kensington with one of the screens using a side angle mirror, but it was then a straight projection to the screen. The weirdest thing I have seen is at the Le Champo in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its a very busy cinema. In Scrren 1 the 35mm projection room was above the screen. The film would start, you could see the light of the lens and the beam coming from the projector. On the back wall of the cinema was a huge mirror, and that would then bounce the film back onto the screen. They are now digital, with the projector intalled at the back of the cinema.
Hi Fred,
Great looking building but rear projection!!! I hate it on a number of directions. Poor image, poor colour and soft focus. Can also be quite directional. As for the sound? it just sounds wrong. As the speakers have to be below (or above) the screen and not behind, for obvious reasons, voice does not sound like it's coming from the center of the screen, mainly because it isn't. Sounds even worse in a small auditorium where the audience is so close to the screen.
The rectifier buzz would have driven me nuts! so easy to fix with an appropriate spanner. Good video, but not a box I would have liked to work in. A good example of how not to split a cinema.
Hello Mike, I was looking forward to your comment. One does wonder why the two Rear projecion Cinemas were done this way instead of the normal split of the stalls down the middle? As it was rear projection with only one mirror it was a normal lace-up, unlike Odeon Kensington, where I did relief a couple of times, one of the cinemas the projector was side-on to the screen. Basically the projector was pointing at the side wall into a mirror. You had to lace up the projector with the S/T furthest away from you, and the sound head (optical) was obviously reconfigured to the left of the film. It was very weird lacing up with the ST on the wrong side. Back to Barnet, I wonder if there was a hot-spot in the 2 small cinemas. Going back in time, back to the 60's there was an Odeon Cinema up north, I thought it was Odeon Leek, but I can't find any reference to it so that may be wrong, but they had rear projection and Tabs. I suppose as the tabs opened the stage lights would shine on the screen, so at least one would know the tabs had opened. Good to hear from you. All the best.
@@fp30e Ohh dear Fred, am I that predictable?? Would you like to SKYPE, I'm sure that would be great fun.
@@fp30e Hello Fred, have you ever visited ODEON Stack in Dundee, Scotland? If so, do you have any footage from when it was in operation from 1993 to 2001?
@@markkenny2001 Hello Mark, thanks for your question. Sadly I don't have any footage of Dundee. Very sorry. All the best.