{"id":44,"date":"2008-11-04T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-11-04T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:07:21","slug":"a-peek-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2008\/11\/04\/a-peek-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peek Behind The Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This past week, I ran in to\u00a0a long abandoned\u00a0bit of multiplex &#8220;flair&#8221;; the\u00a0booth viewing window.\u00a0Back in the mid to late 80&#8217;s,\u00a0many multiplexes were equipped with a small to medium sized window that allowed customers\u00a0a view of the &#8220;inner workings&#8221; of the theatre&#8217;s projection booth. This feature was almost exclusively tied in with the second floor balcony\/restroom design, that was commonplace during the era. More often than not, the view was somewhat limited and confined to a single projector, but it offered customers a peek at\u00a0an area that was otherwise off limits and somewhat mysterious to your average\u00a0movie-goer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/boothwindow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-43\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Booth Viewing Window\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/boothwindow-150x123.jpg\" alt=\"Booth Viewing Window\" width=\"150\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/boothwindow-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/boothwindow-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/boothwindow.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>These windows quietly disappeared by the time mega-plexes arrived on the scene; excluded from new builds and\u00a0existing installations often walled over. In Orange County, I believe the only\u00a0intact\u00a0examples are at Edwards&#8217; University 6 and Tustin Marketplace 6 (pictured above). In a time when many chains are looking towards retro styling and amenities, one wonders if someone might bring back this long forgotten public relations feature.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I ran in to\u00a0a long abandoned\u00a0bit of multiplex &#8220;flair&#8221;; the\u00a0booth viewing window.\u00a0Back in the mid to late 80&#8217;s,\u00a0many multiplexes were equipped with a small to medium sized window that allowed customers\u00a0a view of the &#8220;inner workings&#8221; of the theatre&#8217;s projection booth. This feature was almost exclusively tied in with the second floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}