<div dir="ltr">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. :)<div><br></div><div> - Jon</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 2:47 PM Stuart Wheaton via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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?</p>
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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.
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<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>
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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. <br>
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