[SML] Surveillance cameras on the audience?

[Jon Ares]

Maybe the footage was edited by tv stations, after submitting a Public
Records Request? Regardless, I too see it as a potential legal backup if
someone claims they were unfairly removed.  Or, overnight, if an unattended
vape pen, dropped between seats, was to spontaneously combust. :)

 - Jon

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 2:47 PM Stuart Wheaton via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> They clearly have a rather extensive camera system in place, consider that
> Colorado has had some of the more noteworthy mass shooting events, also
> consider how helpful this is when the problem requires removal etc...
> There is no way that the removed patron can claim that they didn't do the
> things they were tossed out for.  Certainly can protect the theatre from a
> lawsuit, allows the house staff to monitor reported bad behaviour without
> disrupting other patrons until the removal is required.  Seems like a
> pretty good idea.  Also clearly have someone on staff who edited together
> and released the multiple camera views.  Curious if this was after she
> complained she did nothing wrong, or pre-emptively?
>
> Stuart Wheaton
>
>
> On 9/17/2023 5:12 PM, Me via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> 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
> 1(250)216-2894  tomheemskerk at mac.com   http://www.rmts.bc.ca
>
>
> On Sep 17, 2023, at 13:05, Jeff Forbes via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> 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!”
>
> 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.
>
>
> Jeff Forbes
> jforbes1956 at gmail.com
>
>
>
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