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Article posted: 9/25/2012 12:03 PM

Barrington’s Catlow theater fundraising drive ends far past goal

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Catlow theater co-owner Tim O'Connor demonstrates how movie film is currently loaded onto a giant reel table that is then fed into the mid-20th century Simplex XL film projector at the theater in Barrington. O'Connor said that allows the film projector operator to show the film as one piece versus holding a new reel one-third of the way through a movie.

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Thanks to a successful online fundraiser to buy a new digital projector, the 85-year-old Catlow theater in downtown Barrington is now looking forward to a future beyond 2013.

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Though sitting in an auditorium designed in the 1920s, Catlow audiences will soon be watching movies projected digitally in true 21st-century style.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

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It took The Catlow theater in Barrington only seven days this summer to raise the $100,000 needed for a new digital projector through an online fundraiser. But by the time the full 60-day campaign on Kickstarter.com ended Monday afternoon, 1,394 backers had helped the 85-year-old landmark raise $175,395.