Thanks to our friends @airscreen who found this article in Der Spiegel, the German equivalent of TIME Magazine. That's a Fresh Air Flicks 40'x22' screen at SyFy's Movies With A View @BklynBrdgPark. http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-71639-2.html
New York, NY (February 28, 2011) - New Yorkers were dancing in their ice skates to the animated feature Happy Feet at the opening of the Winter Film Festival at Citi Pond at Bryant Park. For four nights this winter visitors to the ice rink and Celcius restaurant were treated to ice skating themed movies on a 3-story tall outdoor movie screen.
Brooklyn, NY-based Fresh Air Flicks installed the inflatable screen each night at the edge of the ice rink. The 46’x30’ tall inflatable frame held a 40’x22’ theatrical screen surface. Fresh Air Flicks used a Christie LX1500 for digital projection and added two JBL EON15 speakers to the existing sound system which also piped the movie soundtrack into the on-site restaurant.
The freezing temperatures and frequent snowstorms were no match for the Fresh Air Flicks and Citi Pond crew. The crew installed hot air blowers behind the screen, which nearly froze during each show, to keep it from cracking.
Many New Yorkers are familiar with the location which is also home to the world famous Bryant Park Summer Film Festival.
“The Winter Film Festival in Bryant Park is one of the most unique settings for an outdoor movie I’ve ever seen,” explains Glen Sanders, President of Fresh Air Flicks. “Watching a movie outdoors while ice skating among the skyscrapers of Manhattan created a magical setting in this already iconic location.”
About Fresh Air Flicks: Fresh Air Flicks is a trusted provider of technical services by many of the largest outdoor movie events in the New York area including movies under The Brooklyn Bridge, The Intrepid Air and Space Museum, The Film Society at Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Opera, and the Central Park Film Festival. The company has been featured on the cover of the New Yorker, has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler and had a cameo in the feature film, How to Win Friends. In 2011 the company made cinema history with the first outdoor projection of a digital 3D movie featuring RealD 3D technology. Fresh Air Flicks provides technical services for outdoor movie screenings throughout NY, NJ, PA, CT, MD, MA, VT, DE, RI and VA. For more information about producing an outdoor movie event, please call 877-215-5500 or visit: www.FreshAirFlicks.com.
About Citi Pond at Bryant Park: Located between W. 40th Street and W. 42nd Streets and 5th and 6th Avenues, Citi Pond at Bryant Park is Manhattan's first and only free-admission ice skating rink. For more information please visit: www.CitiPondatBryantPark.com. Connect via Facebook: facebook.com/citipond and Twitter: @CitiPondNYC.
Swank Motion Pictures just released their sneak peak of family friendly movie releases slated to be released for outdoor movies by summer 2011. Our prediction on this summers favorites? DreamWorks' MegaMind and How to Train Your Dragon. Despicable Me from Universal will be a contender as well. Others on Swanks list include Yogi Bear, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Karate Kid, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows, Iron Man 2, and The Last Airbender.
We've kept the Disney titles separate because audience size restrictions apply to Walk Disney Films. You'll have to contact your Swank Account Executive directly for more information on showing DIsney films.
For the complete list visit http://parks.swank.com/topMovies.html.
New Yorkers will gather to celebrate the life of John Lennon on Saturday, October 9 in Central Park for a preview screening of LENNONNYC on what would have been his 70th birthday. The film takes an intimate look at the years when Lennon, Yoko Ono, and their son Sean lived in New York City. The outdoor screening is free to the public courtesy of WNET/American Masters, Infinite Possibilities Foundation, and VEVO. 
Fresh Air Flicks will install its three-story tall outdoor movie screen, projection and sound for the event. The 880 square foot outdoor movie screen was most recently seen under The Brooklyn Bridge for the Movies with a View series and at the Mineral Springs in Central Park for The Central Park Film Festival.
The free LENNONNYC screening will take place at Summer Stage. Enter at 69th St. and 5th Ave. Doors open at 6pm. Show starts at 7pm. Seating is first come, first serve. No chairs or glass please. Stop by the projection booth and say hello.
LENNONNYC is part of the American Masters series which premieres November 22 on WNET/THIRTEEN in New York and on PBS stations nationally. Find a PBS station near you.
Photos of a Fresh Air Flicks show appear in this weeks The New Yorker magazine (below) and online. The images by photographer Yola Monakhov show our 2-story inflatable outdoor movie screen on the flight deck of the Intrepid Air & Space Museum. These particular photos were taken during a 2009 screening of Top Gun.
For more information about hosting your own outdoor movie event, contact Fresh Air Flicks.
For more information about the Summer Movie Series on The Intrepid click here.
Special thanks to the most amazing photographer in the world, Ettiene Frossard.
