The Conditions required to make Proposals into actual Movies bookings

Following the previous example of a Proposal, We then start selling seats for the proposed movie.

I think there are two important numbers;  The numbers potential seats sold, and the number of seats required to book the Film.

So a active proposal might look this this;

I would like to see < This Movie > at this <Theater/Screen>  on < (in the future) This-day-of-week/ Time> and  < Number of Seats sold (1)/Number of Tickets required (X)>.


Until the required number of seats are sold it is just an active proposal, for people to search for, comment on, and particpate in by buying a possible ticket, and go to the show when (it is booked !!)

Starting with the Objective in Mind...

One of the driving Ideas is the idea that people can create proposals to watch the Movies that they would like to see. An example initial  proposal would look like this:

I would like to see < This Movie > in <  My City > sometime in the future.

A more refined proposal would be;

< This Movie > at < Theater/Screen>, when?  <  A  (Day-of-the-week )> starting at  < Hour >.

Example " I would like to see 'Das Boot OV'  in Munich Theater Sendlinger Tor/Screen Two, on some Thursday night starting at 2000 hrs.

My first HTML broadcasts and had my first Viewer (who was not me)

The first page is up.

Cinema Fans Website and DataBase Project

It is a little rough and the first draft but it is a start. You have to start somewhere, and just make the start.

Send Us some Email Please !!!

Gotta Love Linux

This project has made me learn and re-learn some of the Linux admin roles. I just spent 4 hours working on the phpMyAdmin install, then figured I could have done it in one command.  I go back through the .bash_history to see what the steps were.

The Stuff behind the Showing of the Movies...

I am still curious about what it takes to show a film in the kino. Here are some pictures of the projector and projectionist I took in Bosnia. The projectors themselves are pretty interesting machines. I remember when I was in school and every now and then the teachers would show a movie and the projector sat on a cart and we and to shuffle the chairs and put up the screen, and darken the classroom. The film would start but you would also hear the whir-whir-clikity-clickity-clickty-clicky and see the open reels turning with the film.

 The Bosnian Projectionist.

Another view of one of the Projectors.

These are pretty hefty machines and the bright and very hot Xenon lamps require cooling.  There is also a way to sync the two projectors when one reel is ending and the other starts, a few second of overlap, and sometime you see the black dot. Remember "Fight Club?"

Another view of  one of the machines.

Closer Up of the Front End

There are actually two machines and the Projectionist has to start the film,

swap reels, and alternate the showing projector. and rewind for the next use.

I think most older  movies are about 90 minutes long and are on four or five reels.

One of my all-time favortie movies is "Cinema Paradiso."  A projectionist is one of the centers of the film.

Objective Number One - Build a Working ProtoType

Our first objective is to build a working prototype. A working system that has all the basic functions and logic.

This is going to be a LAMP project

Looks like the logical components will be Linux,Apache,MySQL, and PHP

I think I found a name, CinemaFans !!!

I think I just found a name that describes the project perfectly. Cinema-Fans !!! People Who really,really like to go to the Movies !!! On the big Screens, With your Friends !!!

The whole Action of going to and seeing a real film.

Set up this blog to help with the project

I setup this blog to help with the project. I finally found a reason to Blog.