Tryed to set on fire some triacetate film... it dind't burned.
But oh heck, I've seen some nitrocelulose one buring (on youtube). Rocket fuel. Or gun cotton how it was nicknamed.
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Originally Posted by WISCOJIM
I was the manager (& projectionist) of a large 700+ seat theater in downtown Neenah, Wisconsin in the late 1970's. https://oldneenahtheater.weebly.com/tour.html We showed Grease in the summer of 1978, sold out for weeks. Many of the kids saw the movie more than a dozen times. But business was so slow in the 1990's the theater closed and was torn down. At that time there were about a dozen screens in the valley.
Now however, the theaters have made an amazing comeback. Decades ago we only showed matinees on Sundays (and Saturday kid's matinees). Now there are over 30 screens in the multiplex theaters here and they show movies starting at 9AM weekdays. Can't believe how many cars are in the parking lots throughout the afternoon. I'd reckon there are a lot more people going to the theaters here now than there were in the 1970's.
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Why the business was so slow in the '90's? Home video.
Romania has less movie theater attence per 100,000 people then Hungary...