i hope no one goes and busts this place up, it looks so cool

The word is "projector"

Was cool to get a look behind the scenes. Thanks for not being one of those A-holes who smashes places up and ruins things for the next explorers, hate those people.

This theater first opened in 1988 as the River Run Theatres. Among the movies I saw here growing up; "The Devil's Advocate", "The General's Daughter", "Natural Born Killers", "Primary Colors". Loews Cineplex closed it in 2001, and it was reopened on November 19 2004 as the Lansing Cinema 8 under Pittsburgh based Jenco Theatres.

bro doesnt know what ghostbusters is?

my man got them squeaky ass shoes spongebob had

Those aren't films, they're the trailers for films. An entire feature-length film makes a spool over 1 foot in diameter. Those little spools are about 5-10 minutes. You're finding all those trailers in the cutting room and that's the cut/splice table and gas to blow dust off the film. You had to splice the trailers you wanted to the starts of films so that the entire thing would play without you needing to load/reload the projectors. More well-off or chain theaters would have multiple projectors per screen so they wouldn't need to cut-in the trailers. That theater isn't abandoned, it's sitting in escrow while the bankruptcy court and insurance settle everything; then they'll likely have an industry sale and sell-off whatever they can inside. Assuming criminals aren't breaking/entering and vandalizing the place.

Im surprised they never took anything out! All that perfectly good (for now) thousand dollar equipment just sitting there. Lets hope it doesnt fall into the wrong hands

Damn didn't know the classic ghostbusters vehicle? Dang... Ghostbusters: Afterlife!

Those small reels are trailer adverts not full films, they are highly desirable for collectors!

Siskel and Ebert came into our theater all the time. Met them both a few times! very nice! Gene always got small popcorn, small pop, Roger got large popcorn with extra butter and large coke!

Not gonna lie I'd probably help myself to that Candyman poster and a Sonic plushie.