Halloween screening at the Abbeydale, Sheffield

Published

October, 2022

The main auditorium of the Abbeydale is closed due to an unsafe ceiling and so the stage area has now become the Flytower theatre. Consequently when we were asked by Joe of Reel Steel to screen two films for his Halloween event we had to work out a way to run 35mm in the venue. The films were to be Hellraiser and Candyman.

The idea was to bring along the Portacine with a tower and using a CP65 into their sound system. However, with space constraints we went with a Cinemeccanica V4 and having mid-feature intermissions to help their bar sales.

The pictures show the kit arriving in the back of my car (with Tom and I) and being mounted on a platform at the rear of the screening room. Then me installing and equalising the sound. We went with L-C-R through their system and used our surrounds through a separate amplifier at the rear of the theatre. And finally on the night Allan projecting the films.