[SML] Surveillance cameras on the audience?

[Me]

In my theatres, the “conductor-cam” doubles as something of an "audience-cam" (thanks to the geography of the pit) with no recorder. Been that way for many years. But I first heard of an audience-cam maybe thirty-five years ago, when some colleagues toured a panto into a particularly big house. We didn’t think of any of these as surveillance or security devices, instead they just were handy for checking that the house was ready, etc. Times change.

Tom

Tom Heemskerk
Head Carpenter/Assistant Technical Director
Royal Theatre & McPherson Playhouse, Victoria BC
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> On Sep 17, 2023, at 13:05, Jeff Forbes via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> I imagine by now most of us have seen the video of "Boebert Behaving Badly at Beetlejuice”. I look forward to seeing signs in theater lobbies now saying things like “Don’t Be A Boebert. No flash photography, no vaping, no crotch grabbing!” 
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> But my main question is, how prevalent is it nowadays for theaters to have infra red  surveillance cameras trained on the audience? I didn’t even know that was a thing and none of the theaters I work in engage in that practice. But I may go back to masking in theaters just for that reason alone. 
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> Jeff Forbes
> jforbes1956 at gmail.com
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