HSU transformed the 46-year-old Carmichael Auditorium into a modern theater with state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment, widely known as the Warner Brothers Theater used for films, lectures, symposia, concerts, and other programs and events.
This restoration and renovation project included a myriad of challenges and opportunities. This project featured intricate and detailed millwork that required extreme attention. Expensive and sensitive equipment was installed, from 16mm and 30mm reel-to-reel film projectors, to state-of-the-art High Definition 3D digital projectors, capable of playing 3D movies and archival film. The theater was also designed to accommodate persons with disabilities, which required the installation of a MOPIX system for the hearing-impaired, as well as ADA-compliant ramps and seating. An exciting challenge for HSU was the installation and wiring of microphones, cameras, LED lighting, and more than 30 speakers and amplifers with all the accompanying equipment housed in racks in the projection booth
The space was completed in time for the opening night gala on February 1, 2011, where Clint Eastwood received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. All A/V systems were in perfect working order, for the event and the Humphrey Bogart Film Festival two days later.
