Most of the cinemascope films had four-track sound, and six-track magnetic sound would run on 70mm film, which is twice the size of 35mm. In the 1950s, at the same time cinemascope was introduced, six-track and four-track magnetic sound came along. I kept running film for the next 44 years, and have run film in 50 different theatres from Nebraska to California. My friends lost interest in projecting and moved on to other things in their life. I eventually became the main projectionist. So, at age twelve, I was taught to be a projectionist so my older friends could go out on dates Friday and Saturday nights. The great thing was I finally got to see a projection booth!įriends of mine, a little older than I was, ran the movies there for $2.50 a night. I think I was about eleven years old at the time. You would have to pour it in a cup before being seated. The rule was you couldn't take your bottle of pop into the theatre.
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I sold popcorn and candy for $1.50 a night with a bonus of free movies and popcorn! I didn't sell any soda, because the pop was sold right out of a pop machine. The theatre was called the Lyric, and this was my first job in life.
When we moved to the small town, ticket prices were 35 cents for a movie, and it was a dime for a bag of popcorn. But one great thing about this small town was that it had a small walk-in theatre that ran shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I don't think there were 2,000 people living there. The town was so small compared to cities in California. Then in the mid-1960s, my father retired from the Navy and our family moved to a small town in Nebraska. And that's the way it always was with me, it didn't matter if it was a drive-in or a walk-in theatre, I wanted to see the booth. I would have given anything to be able to see inside the projection room.
The projectionist was always outside the projection booth door sitting in a lawn chair, because the booth would get so hot from the carbon arc lamp houses and California’s summer heat. When I walked to the concession stand, I would always walk by the projection booth attached to the front of the stand. Highland’s drive-in theatre was called the Baseline Drive-in. It was a private place for lovers and families who didn't want to bother the world with crying babies and arguing kids. So the best place to go for entertainment with three brats was the drive-in theatre. My parents had three children, with me being the middle child. One of my fondest memories is going to the movies. At the time, we would travel about every four years to a different city, because my father was a Navy man, and we would go wherever Uncle Sam sent us. The mini theater was closed for a total of 14 months in 20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.In the mid 1960s, when I was nine or ten, my family and I lived in Highland, California. The first film showed in the theater was Surja Dighal Bari. This 4K theater with Dolby 7.1 surround sound system shows 3D films. This 35-seat mini theater is operated jointly by City corporation authority and CineMaker, a film production studio. It was scheduled to inaugurated in Eid-ul-Adha, 2019 (August). The cineplex was built there after getting permission from the Mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation. After the construction of the building, a portion of the underground car park was unused, so he planned to have a mini cineplex there.
He designed the Ali Ahammed Chunka City Library and Auditorium building located in Narayanganj town. The founder of this mini cineplex is Mohammad Nuruzzaman Dalim. This is the first mini theater in Bangladesh and the smallest mini theater in Asia.
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