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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">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.<div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#723DB6" face="Footlight MT Light" size="2" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#723DB6">Tom Heemskerk</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(114, 61, 182);">Head Carpenter/Assistant Technical Director</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#723DB6">Royal Theatre & McPherson Playhouse, Victoria BC</font></div></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#723DB6" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Footlight MT Light" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#723DB6">1(</font><span style="color: rgb(114, 61, 182);">250)216-2894 </span><a href="mailto:tomheemskerk@mac.com">tomheemskerk@mac.com</a> <span style="color: rgb(114, 61, 182);"> </span><a href="http://www.rmts.bc.ca/">http://www.rmts.bc.ca</a></font></div></span></font></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 17, 2023, at 13:05, Jeff Forbes via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>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!” <br><br>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. <br><br><br>Jeff Forbes<br>jforbes1956@gmail.com<br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>For list information see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/><br>Stagecraft mailing list<br>Stagecraft@theatrical.net<br>http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>