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Insurance<br />
services<br />
for the<br />
theatre<br />
industry.<br />
Response No. 70<br />
MAILROOM<br />
THE D-BATE CONTINUES<br />
Dear BOXOFFICE:<br />
Our family-owned small-town theatre<br />
business has been around for 66 years,<br />
since 1935. We've seen a lot of things come<br />
and go. The one constant the world over<br />
A yellow<br />
light means<br />
get ready<br />
. .. has been the<br />
35mm format. The<br />
to stop,<br />
not hold<br />
[the pedal]<br />
to the floor<br />
— doesn't<br />
anybody<br />
get this?<br />
pirated versions of<br />
35mm had a bad<br />
picture and worse<br />
sound. [If we] go<br />
digital, [audiences<br />
can have] quality<br />
picture and sound<br />
for free. I can sit<br />
down and watch<br />
every new movie<br />
weeks before I<br />
have a hope of<br />
actually running<br />
them, all for free<br />
off the Internet.<br />
The quality may<br />
be even better than<br />
the print I<br />
get!<br />
I realize the studios don't care about the<br />
little guys, but big fish need little fish to survive.<br />
There's some serious thinking that has<br />
to be done, and quickly. Our industry lead-<br />
ers remind me of the captain of the Titanic.<br />
A yellow light means get ready to stop,<br />
not hold [the pedal] to the floor doesn't<br />
anybody get this?<br />
Don Falkner<br />
Falkon Theatre<br />
Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada<br />
POINT OF VUE<br />
Dear BOXOFFICE:<br />
When I<br />
you were running a list<br />
saw in the September issue that<br />
of all the survivixfi<br />
drive-ins, I immediately checked for those<br />
in the Central Kentucky area and was surprised<br />
to find that the only one still operai<br />
ing was the Sky-Vue outside Winchester<br />
the first I ever attended, and one of (if not<br />
the) first in the area. By the late '50s there<br />
were six around Lexington, two of which<br />
were first-run venues—not only for the<br />
typical drive-in fare, but also major releases.<br />
The Sky-Vue was always a second- or<br />
third-run venue and it's [inspiring] that it<br />
has outlasted not only Winchester's one<br />
hard-top but all of Lexington's hard-tops<br />
and drive-ins from the period as well.<br />
Cordially,<br />
Rick Mitchell<br />
Film Editor/Film Director/Film Historian<br />
Los Angeles, Colif.<br />
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Pasadena, CA 91101<br />
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Fax: 626-396-0248<br />
E-mail: editorial@boxoffice. com<br />
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