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February 2006 NANATOTO of California/NevadaCalifornia/Nevada Information for the California and Nevada Motion Picture Theatre Industry CALENDAR Film Product Seminar to Include Special Bonuses of EVENTS & HOLIDAYS Lincoln’sLincoln’s Birthday Feb. 12 Valentine’sValentine’s Day Feb. 14 President’sPresident’s Day Feb. 20 Regal’s Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26 Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill Washington’s One of the most popular NATO of California/Nevada annual events is coming. The Spring/ Birthday Summer Film Product Seminar will take place on April 4th in Southern California and April 6th in Feb. 22 Northern California. Clips from more than 80 fi lms will be screened with introductions from the respective studio representatives. As in years past attendees will have a fi rst look at some of the big- Showmanship Awards gest fi lms to be released during the spring and summer months and the opportunity to provide their Entries Due theatre staff with an update of future programming and those fi lms which will lend themselves to Mar. 1 special promotions. A great opportunity for every manager! 78th Annual As a special added attraction, the documentary CINERAMA Academy Awards ADVENTURE will be shown at the conclusion of the product Presentation seminar. CINERAMA ADVENTURE chronicles the amazing Mar. 5 story of the fi rst interactive fi lm process, using three cameras and three projectors to present an immersive fi lm experience which ShoWest includes 20 minutes of actual 3-panel Cinerama footage and Mar 13-16 lives up to its copy line: PUTS YOU IN THE PICTURE! The fi lm also includes the history of the Film Product wide screen process and interviews with many of the stars of the various Cinerama fi lms. This is a Seminar must see for anyone with an interest in fi lm, and maybe your only chance to see it on the big screen. Apr. 4 - South Following the showing, a Q&A session with the fi lm makers of CINERAMA ADVENTURE David Apr. 6 - North Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch will be conducted. In addition to all of the above, the winners of the 2nd Annual NATO of California/Nevada Show- Scholarship manship Awards will be presented. Indeed, a full day is promised as well as many other surprises. It Applications Due all happens on April 4, 2006 in Southern California at Regal’s Long Beach Stadium 26 Theatre and Apr. 7 April 6, 2006 in Northern California at the Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill Theatre. th Passover Begins Reservations, which are due by Monday, March 20 , are on a fi rst come basis. See page 2 to Apr.Apr. 12 make your reservation. Good Friday Apr. 14 Showmanship Entries are due March 1st. Visit our website: Easter www.NATOCalNev.org for information and entry forms. Apr. 16 1 NATO of California/Nevada February 2006 Previews is published by the Registration Form National Association of Theatre Owners of NATO of CA/NV Spring/ Summer California/Nevada Film Product Seminar 11661 San Vicente Blvd., Suite 830 Los Angeles, CA 90049-5116 Attendance is open to NATO of CA/NV member employees by reservation only, Phone: 310/460-2900 no walk-ins and no substitutions. Due to space limitations we can accommodate no more Fax: 310/460-2901 than two persons from each theatre location. All reservations must be approved by the E-mail: Offi [email protected] www.NATOCalNev.org respective corporate office or district manager. OFFICERS Milton Moritz Schedule President & CEO Continental Breakfast ........................................ 9:00 AM Raymond W. Syufy Program Begins .................................................10:00 AM Chairman Product Seminar conclusion ..........................By 3:00 PM William F. Hertz, Sr. CINERAMA ADVENTURE screening .............3:15 PM ViceVice President Exit .................................................................By 5:00 PM David Corwin Treasurer Bruce Sanborn Secretary April 4, 2006 April 6, 2006 ❦ Regal’s Long Beach 26 Theatre Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill 7501 Carson Blvd. 125 Crescent Drive BOARD OF DIRECTORS Long Beach, CA 90808 Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 David Corwin Metropolitan Theatres Nora Dashwood Pacifi c Theatres Name: ____________________________________ Title: _________________________ Alan Grossberg Email: ____________________________________ Phone: _______________________ UltraStar Cinemas William F. Hertz, Sr. Company Name: _________________________________________________________ Mann Theatres Theatre Name: ___________________________________________________________ George Krikorian Krikorian Premiere Cinemas Business Address: _________________________________________________________ Greg Laemmle _________________________________________________________ Laemmle Theatres Neal Pinsker District Manager: ________________________________ Phone ___________________ Regal Entertainment Group or Signature CorporateCorporate OfficerOfficer Frank Rimkus _________________________________________________________ Galaxy Theatres Print name Bruce Sanborn The Movie Experience Will attend: ❑ No. Calif. ❑ So. Calif. Raymond W. Syufy Century Theatres I plan on staying for the screening of CINERAMA ADVENTURE and the Q&A afterwards. John Tegtmeier TegtmeierTegtmeier Associates ❑ Yes ❑ No ❑ Undecided Dick Walsh AMC Theatres FAX THIS COMPLETED FORM TO NATO of CA/NV: 310/460-2901 For more details call 310/460-2900 ❦ Deadline for reservations: Monday, March 20th Charlene Sievers Director, Member Services 2 NATO of California/Nevada February 2006 white light reader?” you may ask. Besides the fact that the light source color is red, the big dif- ference is how it works with the cyan dye tracks as compared with older silver tracks. Both reader styles have a light sensitive pick-up device (solar cell) which interprets the light that is cast upon it from the fi lm soundtrack. The light source for a silver track is a conventional white light Cyan Dye bulb with a tungsten fi lament. The light source for a cyan dye track is a red LED (Light Emit- ting Diode). Without getting into the technical Analog Soundtracks details, suffi ce it to say that you cannot play a By Ken Jacquart, Cinema Product Manager; Motion Picture Division, Dolby Laboratories Inc. cyan dye track on a projector that has a white light reader because the analog sound will be Converting to a silverless cyan track offers major benefits to both the very quiet and contain a lot of hiss. motion picture industry and to the environment. The cyan track is not only If your projectors are not yet equipped safer and simpler to produce; it is less damaging to the environment, reduc- with red light analog readers, it would be wise ing the use of water and chemicals in the developing process. to contact your theatre equipment dealer as The cyan dye track requires a red light reader in the projector’s analog soon as possible. soundhead: without one, the new soundtracks will play badly or not at all. A Do you have a question about the opera- red light reader provides several practical benefits to the theatre, beyond the tions of your booth? Feel free to submit ques- ability to play the new soundtracks, and the Dye Track Committee encour- tions or suggestions for upcoming Tech Tips to ages the conversion of all theatres to red readers. [email protected]. We look forward to The vast majority of US screens have already been converted to red light hearing from you. ▼ readers, with most major studios intending to evolve to the cyan dye track format. If you own or operate a theatre that is not yet equipped with a red light reader in your projector’s analog soundheads, it is recommended that you install one as soon as possible. REDSTONE: 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures, and Universal Pictures have committed to releasing 35 mm prints with cyan dye analog No day and date soundtracks. These leading studios now join dye track pioneers Buena Vista, DreamWorks, MGM, and Miramax in furthering the film industry’s transi- Viacom and National tion to the environmentally friendly print-manufacturing process. Amusement Chairman Sumner On October 21, 2005, Universal released “DOOM” withwith cyancyan dyedye Redstone left no doubt, at a analog soundtracks. Universal will begin releasing all upcoming films with recent Q & A session, where he cyan dye analog soundtracks, including “King Kong”,”, whichwhich comescomes outout onon stands on the idea of the industry December 14th, 2005. All prints will have the new tracks. The new process moving toward simultaneous will have significant environmental benefits. releases of feature fi lms to To play the new analog sound-tracks, your projector must be equipped theatres and DVD or video on with a visible red light analog reader. If you attempt to play this soundtrack using a white light or infra-red reader, the sound level will be greatly re- demand platforms. duced. “AnyAny exhibitorexhibitor playing Digital playback is not affected by the new process. The digital pictures under these soundtracks (Dolby Digital, DTS, and SDDS) play fine with either a red or a white light reader and no equipment changes are necessary for any of the circumstances would be digital soundtracks. Yet, the analog “back-up track” will not be an effective committing suicide; back-up track without a visible red light analog reader. it’s not going to happen.” “What is a red light reader? and what is the difference between it and a 3 NATO of California/Nevada February 2006 Workplace Posters and Notices Do You Comply with State and Federal ing through Election Day. Posting Requirements? • Discrimination and Harassment in Employment Are Prohibited Under recent California and federal law, an array of rules by Law. Form DFEH 162 is available from the California requires you to display employment-related posters in the work- Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) place and provide employees with many written notices. • Equalqual EmploymentEmployment OpportunityOpportunity IsIs thethe LawLaw. Form EEOC-P/E- The posters listed below must be in English, and some are 1 is available from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity also available in Spanish and other languages. Posters should Commission. be conspicuously displayed where employees can read them, • Employee Polygraph Protection Act. PrivatePrivate employersemployers must such as in a lunch or break room.