JOHN MURPHY'S NEW MOVIE SCREEN HEADER !

At the top is my design for the New Movie Screen Header for my friend JOHN MURPHY'S Backyard Theatre. At bottom the actual Header in place on the screen. The Header is 17 feet across to span the screen and it's side curtains. The Original was in two long and hard to store pieces. This new Header is in 5 sections that lock onto the pipe that holds the screen up and to each other for rigidity, and no section is more than 4 feet wide, so the whole thing stores easily when dis-assembled.

The centerpiece was designed to be removable and interchangable, since the screen would also be used in the summertime and JOHN likes to have a "Theme" to these showings and thus something different at center for each screening. This one is two jack-o-lanterns with "Comedy / Tragedy" mask faces. The actual set of masks were even lighted from behind just like real pumpkins for halloween. There are also attached lights to illuminate the side curtains and a center light to spotlight the centerpiece.

 In addition, an electric colorwheel was positioned below the screen to throw vari-colored light across the blank white surface prior to the show starting...