Motion Picture Herald (1954)

Parking field of the Jolly Roger, showing the three-reproducer in-car speaker units for three-channel reproduction of CinemaScope magnetic prints. frame anchored in concrete with engineering to give the structure resistance to wind up to 180 miles per hour. The steel frame is enclosed by Transite siding, which develops architectural forms on the highway side, which is further ornamented by a painting of a reasonable facsimile of the pirate ship Jolly Roger, a name spelled out across the top of the tower in porcelain enamel channel letters 8 feet high carrying filament lamps or flashers. The ship painting is outlined in neon, while the waves are also shaped in neon with flasher hookup to simulate wave motion. The ticket booth terminal of the entrance lane is canopied co-extensive with the tower, and the exit lanes on the opposite side are similarly covered. Ticket booths serve six lanes. With the projection booth, which is in the main service building, 540 feet from the screen, the Jolly Roger presents a CinemaScope picture the full width of the screen in a 2.55/1 aspect ratio. The screen has curvature as well as tilt. Projection lighting is by Strong “Super-135” lamps supplied by Strong selenium rectifiers. Projectors are Century with water-cooled gate. Objective lenses are Kollmorgen // 1 .9 in the 4-inch barrel. Anamorphic attachments are Bausch & Lomb. The sound installation of the Jolly Roger includes three-unit in-car speakers, with amplification channels and magnetic heads for three-channel reproduction of CinemaScope magnetic track prints. The projection and sound installation was engineered by A1 Boudouris of the Theatre Equipment Company, Toledo, which built the speakers. The amplifier and control rack in the projection booth provides for switching promptly to and from singlechannel optical and three-channel magnetic reproduction. Amplifiers are Century. The canopy linking the ticket booths, which are of modern design, and also the exit canopy, are faced in yellow porcelain and mount three rows of filament lamps on chaser flashers moving from the central screen tower. The canopies also mount entrance and exit marker signs lighted in neon. At the highway, in front of the screen tower, is a double-face name sign and attraction board structure 34 feet high of ornamental design, with a pole extending toward the highway to fly a Jolly Roger flag. Attraction advertising equipment consists in Wagner frames and letters with panels back-lighted by 784 feet of 24mm white neon tubing. Three rows of filament lamps on chaser flashers border the panels. Theatre name letters are 3 feet, 6 inches high and outlined in neon. The base of the sign structure is enclosed by an 8-inchthick, yellow brick wall that provides a storage room for the letters. The refreshment stand building measures 80 x 70 feet. The service is operated by the Michigan Confection Cabinet Corporation. An 80-foot main counter is divided into six stations with stainless steel equipment. The counters have Formica covers of various shades of blue and yellow. The woodpaneled back wall is coral and blue. In front of a 55-foot viewing window is a 26-foot curved counter where candy, soft drinks and buttered pop corn are sold. The floor of the concession area is of mosaic, glazed tile in a free-form design. Rest rooms are finished in glazed tile. The entire theatre area is landscaped and enclosed by an 8-foot-high aluminum fence. The spacious projection room of the Jolly Roger, house in the main service building 540 feet from the screen. Strong-135 lamps light a picture up to 122 feet wide. 20 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 30, 1954