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From: herzog@dogwalk.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog, Sun Microsystems, GPD)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH pet peeves
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Date: 28 Aug 89 05:57:06 GMT
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In article <13357@well.UUCP>, lmeyer@well.UUCP (lhary meyer) writes:
> 
> Why not run the film show CONTINUOUSLY through 3 days or so. Museums do
> shows this way. After manning a booth 8-10 hours I'm too damn tired to 
> sit htru the show. You could use a smaller theater that way. I know it
> would be hard on the show people....but thats show biz.

Believe it or not, there was a time when the show was done once.
A tremendous amount of labor and equipment goes into producing each show.
A smaller theater with lesser equipment would not yield a show of the
quality which attendees have come to expect.  After doing A/V for papers 
and panels all day, the crew was pretty tired, too, yet they still had 
six shows to do.  Besides, you wouldn't want to admit to getting more
than 3 hours a night of sleep at SIGGRAPH, would you? :-)

The animation screening room *did* run continuously for three days,
showing classics from the past as well as many excellent pieces that
weren't in the "big" theater.

-Brian Herzog
herzog@sun.com