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April, 1951
WELLS COATES : PLANNING THE TELEKINEMA
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The Festival Telekinema will, in fact, exhibit its " works " for all to see in a way not possible in normal kinema planning.
Planning the Equipment
The next stage — of detail planning — was now possible, and a further examination of dimensions, sight angles, sizes of equipment, weights, structural media and a host of other matters showed that even very slight alterations of dimensions in any one section made
for this concession — to arrange for the television projector to be housed on a sliding track, with turntable, so that the projector will move away into its adjacent " kennel " after its performance, and make way for film. In detail, the plan at balcony level is, of course, cut into by this forward television projection area, but the number of seats lost is minimal, and on either side of the balcony front are located two little loges for important guests.
fig. 3. Plan at Entrance Level, showing primarily the Positioning of the Equipment in the Projection Room. FP Film Projectors. SR Sound Reproducers. TV Television Projector, Rails and Monitor Desk. TVC Television Camera Monitor. RB Rewind Bench. SW Switchboard. LS Loudspeaker. PB Pay-box.
the plan unworkable. The detail planning of this building has employed every cubic inch of available space ; structural elements and finishes have had to be very closely determined and defined.
Thus it was not possible to ensure, at the outset, that the television projector could remain in a stationary, position, because we had to cater not only for two film projectors, but also for the projection of a colour surround " or " borderless screen " effect as well. Thus it was decided — and I am grateful to the technical staff of Cinema-Television
Elements of Building
The illustration of the external elevation of the Telekinema shows how the section is expressed architecturally: the upper claw is revealed as one generic form, gripping the projection room with its outer walls faced with brickwork, and abutting the entrance or access block to the right ; the lower claw of the section, extending to the back of the stalls, is, of course, below the " terrace ground level.
The building naturally divided itself into the following elements, and a short descrip