Brooklyn Film Works went ahead as planned on Tuesday night despite reports of a 40% chance of showers after 8 p.m.

In the scorching hot weather, our teenage tech crew worked quickly and got everything set up.

Raising the screen is always an adventure. It takes about six strong people to lift it off the ground and position it against Greg’s Rubbish Removal truck. Dan, who is one of the teens, likes to secure the screen from the top of the truck.

A nice sized crowd gathered to watch Duck Amuck and Moonstruck. About ten minutes into Moonstruck, we noticed lightening in the distance. Ever optimisitc, we hoped that the storm wouldn’t start until after the movie. Then the wind started and there was the rumble of distant thunder.

About one hour into the movie (Cher and Nicholas Cage were at the Metropolitan Opera together) Kim Maier announced that we were going to have to turn off the movie. The audience got off the lawn in the nick of time. Our tech team quickly moved the equipment indoors just before the big rain came.

A large group of us were standing under the projection cabana. Someone said, "Why are we out here, why aren’t we in the house?" Then someone said, "Why don’t we carry this cabana to the house." So everyone grabbed pole and the entire group moved across the lawn underneath the cabana, which was like a gigantic umbrella. It was funny.

During the lightening storm, a large group of us waited inside the house before taking the screen down.  "We don’t want to be handling tall aluminum poles during a lightening storm," Hepcat said. The kids were getting tired. Finally, in the hard rain, the group of us went out to the truck and carried the 12 x 15 ft frame away from the truck and let it drop onto the lawn. Then the screen, which has about 80 webs and gromits, needed to be untied from the frame.

We all got soaking wet. But it was kinda fun in a way. OSFO said she’d rather be boiling hot than soaking wet." We walked back home in the rain vowing to watch the rest of Moonstruck someday soon.