MovieFest Charitable Trust

The MovieFest Charitable Trust has this afternoon taken possession of a Panasonic PT-DW5100 DLP Digital Cinema Projector, that has been donated to the trust by the Taihape Heritage Trust, the owners of the Majestic Theatre in Taihape.

They have also included a Marantz SR5002 Audio Surround Sound Receiver along with two spare projector bulbs, a Freeview Receiver, some speaker cable and numerous other additional items.

We would like to sincerely thank the Trustees for making these items available, and know that they will be put to good use, just as they were when the Majestic re-opened after being inactive for many years.

Now we're up over $5,000, we have increased the target to $7,500, and are well on the way to achieving that as well.

The extra funds will be used to check the electrical circuits in the cinema, and once shown to be okay, to re-connect the power to the lights and projection room so that we can start testing all the equipment.

The cinema as a massive number of lights under the pelmets down both sides, and also along the front of the stage area shining up on the impressive waterfall curtain, and it will be great to see them all back in operation.

We had the projectionist from the fabulous Park Road Post Cinema in Miramar visit us last Sunday, to take a look at what we have and how far we have reached to getting it all going again.

Although our cinema will not be as flash as the one he works in shown in the picture here, he was impressed with what he saw, especially the 35mm film projection equipment installed in the projector room.