"Daughters of Darkness" screening at the Egyptian Theatre / Photo & Review

[victoriawinters]

I spoke with Kathy Resch after the screening and she said that she was seated before all the sound panels were brought in.  The decorations are still there; they were just obscured. 

Thank you for that!  You don't KNOW what a relief it is to me.

I found out some historic information about this.  In the 1920s when the theatre was originally built, there was no movie sound and the mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ or small orchestra played.  (This brand of organ sounds completely different from a church organ.)  The theatre was then very live to project sound pre-microphone.  Too live for today's surround speaker systems.

Thus, the sliding acustical walls are the compromise so that both types of films can still be played in the theatre.  It will dampen the sound of the room to play a "talkie."  The theatre, if not already, has plans to restore a period organ there.

When I first read your post Midnite, I was afraid the walls had befell the fate of my living room walls when the speaker system came in here.  Since the speaker wires cannot be in the same direction as electrical wires (or they get static in them), the living room walls became swiss cheese.

Still not live sound, which to me is still the best there is.  And, so glad The Egyptian did not have to become swiss cheese.

You would also be pleased to know that the Cinerama Dome is still in it's original condition and from time to time they still will project the three projector movies (3 strip Cinerama) on the "dome" for which it was originally built for.  It's also one of the few places that can project 70mm film with the magnetic soundtrack.  Most all films are now shot in 35mm film with a digital soundtrack and that is what you see/hear at the usual multi-plex.

Glad to know you all had a lovely time and sorry I couldn't make it to see you.

[Heather]

In fact, all the nudity is far more explicit - if you're into that sort of thing. 

The more nudity the better as far as I'm concerned... whoops, did I say that?  LOL    Nice write-ups all...

Since posting that the DVD (originally released by Anchor Bay back in 1998) was hard to find, I've noticed that DoD was reissued in 2003 by Blue Underground with all new packaging. I don't know if it's a part of the new version, but the Italian poster was included in the original release:

--Wow--  Nice poster!  Inspiring... And those nails.  chortle.   

[ProfStokes]

-Do you mean DAVID LEAN, instead of DAVID LEE?..Hmmm

You may be right, Darren.  With Kumel's accent, I couldn't be absolutely sure of the name.

ProfStokes