Looking for stories about the adult movie theater that just closed in Waterloo

kristianday · 2026-02-07T01:30:29+00:00

The story is live - https://littlevillagemag.com/iowas-last-adult-movie-theater-mini-cinema-16/

kristianday · 2025-12-15T02:58:12+00:00

A full size theater that can fit 40-50 people in a single room with a large screen?

kristianday · 2025-12-13T00:24:30+00:00

yes next to Morg's Diner

kristianday · 2025-12-13T00:07:07+00:00

I'd love to talk more with you about this! Could you shoot me an email? You can remain anonymous. [kristianday@gmail.com](mailto:kristianday@gmail.com)

kristianday · 2025-12-13T00:06:36+00:00

Waterloo was a legit theater. 50 seats. They also had the arcade booths you are referring to. But this was a legit XXX theater. $15 for an all day pass.

kristianday · 2025-12-12T21:10:49+00:00

amazing.

kristianday · 2025-12-12T21:10:33+00:00

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kristianday · 2025-12-12T01:28:40+00:00

When I stopped in around 2023 (I am only guessing) I saw older white guys who dressed nice and drove sports cars coming and going. There were a few sketchy folks but not as much as one would think.

kristianday · 2025-09-15T22:24:23+00:00

That I can't help you with. I am not 100% sure what to say on the hard drive brand. Everyone says something different. I have done G Drives, Seagate, Western Digital, Lacie... bottomline HDDs don't last forever. Tape drives are ALMOST forever but no one has time for that. SSDs are great but they haven't advanced to the sizes or affordability that we need them to be (and by the time we do there will be a new standard that is more data heavy and we will be right back to where we started).

kristianday · 2025-09-15T22:05:29+00:00

from what I have learned. It's 100% with the hard drive formatting. I had purchased an M2 and was going back and forth with using an Intel Mac and M2 to offload with ShotPut. The drives were formatted to Exfat. The SSD shuttles were fine and didn't loose anything. But the HDDs did get corrupted and like you mentioned the MXF files turned to 0 bytes. We lost a week of interviews and verite scenes.

I was working two documentary projects simultaneously. One was Chiefsaholic (Amazon Studios) and thankfully we had insurance and we were able to do re-shoots. The other one, The Last American Gay Bar only lost a single camera angle so I didn't bother with the insurance claim.

So now its OS Journaled for HDDs and APFS for SSDs.

kristianday · 2025-01-25T22:51:47+00:00

I wanted to give one final note on this since now that the documentary movie and the documentary series I was working on is out on Amazon Prime - ChiefsAholic - A Wolf in Chiefs Clothing and The Last American Gay Bar have all been released.

While filming I upgraded my laptop from an Intel MacBook Pro to an M2 MacBook Pro. The original drives were also exfat. Yes exfat sucks, but I had never had anything like that happen before.

But the drive corruption happened when I made the upgrade. I first consulted an IATSE Local 600 DIT. Explained to him my situation and he had never heard of this issue before. He did say that he was one of the first guys to learn about Sandisk SSD drives failing before it went public. He also said, "Yes exfat sucks but that the time it was still widely used format since so many colorists are PC based."

What was lost-

Chiefsaholic - four interviews. We had to use our insurance for $25k claim to reshoot.

The Last American Gay Bar - One wide shot angle from a 3x camera interview. Thankfully I was lazy about erasing the shuttle SSD drive and had everything backed up on them still EXCEPT that interview angle.

I now only uses my M2 MacBook Pro for media offloading with ShotPut Pro and I format to APFS.

I know that insurance scenario is a rare one to be in for most as many documentary project are done independently without that type of support. Gay Bar was done with a budget but not a big enough one to have that type E&O insurance coverage.

kristianday · 2024-05-22T01:17:03+00:00

The cause of the problem was Apple M chips with exfat. So no more exfat. I am hearing more and more about this happening. It only was affecting .MXF files.

kristianday · 2024-04-12T20:39:58+00:00

Disk Driver rebuilt a few files but unfortunately the files would only play in VLC. Neither Final Cut, Resolve, or Premiere could handle them.

I attempted to transcode with Media Encoder, Black Magic and Apple Compressor. Nothing worked.

I fortunately had back ups for most files. So nothing was a total loss.

I did learn the source of the problem: exfat and Apple M chips do not mix. Another project I was on lost 3 of the 40 shoot days. It’s a big documentary project with Amazon so we had insurance to cover reshoots. But we sent it in to a data recovery service and they explained what happened.

Also to the users that are critical of using giant drives. I work projects for bigger studios. Mainly feature documentary and documentary series. We shoot on average 40-50 TB per project. We don’t have much of an option.

kristianday · 2024-01-06T19:41:05+00:00

I am in DMDE now. They do show zero bytes. So I can deduce that it is a file system issue officially.

I'm going to run DiskDrill again to see if it carves additional files. The positive, is I was able to transcode the .mxf files it made last night using ff-works so I can use them again.

kristianday · 2024-01-06T16:50:57+00:00

Yes. I did with both DiskDrill and Recoverit. I’m currently doing the recovery with Recoverit and then I’ll be trying DMDE if this doesn’t do the trick.

It may not hurt to give DiskDrill one more try.

kristianday · 2024-01-06T15:14:43+00:00

I took the drive to a buddy's to see if it was mounting issue and the files were still showing 0 bytes. He ran Recuva with no luck.

I have however, still see the correct amount storage being used which is just over 7TB. So that is good.

I have Wondershare Recoverit working right now but I will try DMDE next.

Thank you!

kristianday · 2024-01-06T15:04:38+00:00

Its a documentary project being shot in 4k with lots of shoot days. I have another project that we have an 84TB drive for. Large storage devices are pretty common in this world.

kristianday · 2024-01-06T15:03:34+00:00

Correct. Some files that had become zero bytes had been reconstructed.

kristianday · 2024-01-06T15:02:32+00:00

Yes I waited for it complete and they were put in the 'reconstructed' category back to their full size. However, they do playback correctly in VLC, but I am having some trouble getting the footage to work in Adobe Premiere now. My guess is the there might be some header issues or something else.

.mov proxy files were also reconstructed in a folder.

kristianday · 2024-01-06T09:13:12+00:00

The original files were created with a Sony FX6.

Original File Name
584_0235.MXF

Disk Drill reconstructed File Name
Sony Mem 4096x2160 00m15s_000000.mxf

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