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This is a pretty straightforward idea. When you go to your friendly neighborhood swimming pool, you get a nice innertube to sit on, and you relax in the nice warm water (with wave generators, natch). Then you watch a nice movie on the huge screen at one end of the pool. It basically combines the experience
of being entertained with being wet.
Flick and Float
http://detnews.com/...06/15/c05-75512.htm
Aquatic center theater [Helium, Oct 14 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Dive-In Movies
http://www.wetnwild...es.cfm?archived=all
Wet'n'Wild in Australia [krelnik]
Dive-In Movies
http://www.okc.gov/...002_05/dive_in.html
Oklahoma City Parks & Recreation [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Dive-In Movies
http://www.okc.gov/...002_05/dive_in.html
Oklahoma City Parks & Recreation [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]
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Baked all over the place. Here's one link but there's hundreds. |
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Variation (to dodge the bakedness of this idea): project movies on the bottom of the swimming pool (either through the water or using a rear-projection system) and have people watch the movie while snorkeling. Great for inverted-omnidome-type reef documentaries, "The Abyss", and any movies with a lot of crane shots. |
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WIML: I'm pretty sure that projecting through the water wouldn't work. That would necessitate a rear-projection system, which would create it's own set of problems. For one, it would require a huge hollow space beneath the pool--and hollow spaces are not ideally suited to supporting the weight of some 2 million gallons of water. Then, if you tried to prop the bottom with supports, you'd run into problems with those supports interfering with the projected films. |
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I guess, though, if you had enough money, you could install a massive array of giant plasma screens enclosed in a gargantuan acrylic shell which would sit on the bottom of a 100-ft deep pool. |
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The hollow space could be filled with fluid, also. Pure (and therefore clear) water, or some other incompressible fluid, would hold up the floor perfectly well. You'd need index-matching optics on the projector though. |
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As Helium said, baked all over the place, but I'm giving a vote for, cuz I like water and movies! :) |
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Won't my popcorn get soggy? |
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How about showing it on the ceiling above the pool? |
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// It basically combines the experience of being entertained with being wet.// |
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If this carries on, I won't be able to log on to this site through my company firewall. |
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Not one of my proudest moments but while living in Perth, WA I went to the SPICE WORLD premiere at a float filled pool on a warm summer night. I took my cousins. Mmmkay... I'm embarrassed... but it was fun regardless. |
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bubblegrrl, It's good to see that you don't give a flip about what people think about you or popularity. |
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I have lived in tropical places my whole life and have
never heard of this. La Jolla cove had underwater
concerts, but not underwater movies. Here in Waikiki, we
have sunset movies on the beach but not movies in the
water. Great idea. |
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Entertained while being wet? sounds like sex. |
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Mystic, the idea doesn't say underwater, it says you are in the water while watching. That is definitely baked, most water parks in the US do this as an evening activity in their main wave pool. |
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Many nice US hotels have bars in the water. If you drink too much at the bar, you begin to think you're watching a beach movie. The good news is that you are too drunk to get out of the pool and drive your car. If you really get drunk you drown and clean the gene pool. |
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So you could add a bar to your movie pool and help clean the gene pool too. If you were showing a scary drowning movie, other in the pool would just think the inverted drunks were renacting parts of the movie. But pool cleaning afterwards will be messy... water soaked pop corn, candies, and bodies... |
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