{"id":837,"date":"2011-10-18T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T07:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2011-10-18T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T07:34:36","slug":"bakersfields-haunted-projection-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2011\/10\/18\/bakersfields-haunted-projection-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield&#8217;s Haunted Projection Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the Halloween season, here is a picture from the reputed \u201chaunted\u201d projection booth at the Movies 6, up in Bakersfield. A former United Artist location, which was opened in 1979, the theatre is currently operated as a discount venue by Starplex Cinemas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Bakersfieldbooth.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-838 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Bakersfield's Booth\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Bakersfieldbooth-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Bakersfieldbooth-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Bakersfieldbooth-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Bakersfieldbooth.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current and former employees have passed on tales of unusual noises and strange goings on in the booth for a number of years. One projectionist is even alleged to have captured a voice from beyond on a tape recorder that was left running in the haunted chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Departing somewhat disappointed, after my visit to the theatre a couple of months ago, I only encountered the spirits of cast off 35mm equipment; most notably, this old Goldberg reel rewinder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GoldbergRewind.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-839 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Goldberg Rewinder\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GoldbergRewind-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GoldbergRewind-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GoldbergRewind-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GoldbergRewind.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the Halloween season, here is a picture from the reputed \u201chaunted\u201d projection booth at the Movies 6, up in Bakersfield. A former United Artist location, which was opened in 1979, the theatre is currently operated as a discount venue by Starplex Cinemas. Current and former employees have passed on tales of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}