To seat the audience optimally, one can deploy place-settings at the optimal viewing locations. Not knowing how many people might arrive to view the movie, I deployed 44 note-taking kits in the first three rows and held 6 more in reserve.
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Each note kit consisted of a shallow drawer from the genealogy room cabinet, a sharpened half-length ("golf") pencil, and a ruled film-indexing form, with instructions on top.
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Few people showed up, so the right-hand gallery with the smaller TV set was not used at all.
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Eleven people showed up and viewed the first full-speed run. No one stayed for the slow-motion reshowing, even though at least one person complained the movie proceeded too fast to take notes. The majority of the attendees had grey hair. Only one minor attended. Ten non-blank survey forms were collected. Six had notes, all but one with time indices.
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