Technical Quality Control of Motion Picture Theaters

Claude Soule

Spectator comfort in a cinema is of utmost importance. Visual, auditory, and seating comfort are the design elements one must take into account for the successful construction of a well balanced cinema theater. Parameters are discussed such as: perspective reproduction, image distortion, fine detail rendering, color and contrast reproduction, acoustical auditorium transfer characteristics, background noise, spectators' head clearance, seating area limits, and others. The CSTCF (Commission Supérieure Technique du Cinéma Français) controls the quality of cinema theaters and awards a quality label to those cinemas that comply with the quality conditions specified in the French cinema standard.

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Published
1981-04
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J00412