Today, most believe film projectors are relics of a bygone era. The pace of technology and the difficulty of acquiring film means that, over the years, theaters have dropped the analog format one by ...
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I was a professional movie theater projectionist for six years. Here is why movie presentation is a dying art
From 2015 until 2021, I worked regularly as one of the projectionists at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, California. The New Beverly Cinema is a repertory cinema that is owned by filmmaker ...
This past February, an unconventional delegation from Barco made the trek from Ghent to Los Angeles. Clad in bowties and evening gowns, this crew of execs and engineers cut dashing figures on a ...
On a recent afternoon, Somerville Theatre projectionist David Kornfeld was waiting for his cue. Kornfeld peered out from the booth’s port window, watching the 35mm print of “Fear and Loathing in Las ...
Three Cinemark theaters will be outfitted with new projection systems, capable of screening movies shot with 70mm film. IMAX and Cinemark announced on Oct. 27 that IMAX 70mm film projection systems ...
We delve into the topic of IMAX projection systems, as a technical format and exhibition standard, and look to its future. The history of film production involves, perhaps famously and perhaps ...
Up in the projection booth at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn, head projectionist Tanner Agle tinkers with a 70 mm projector. “I’m hitting this green button start,” he said, as the projector ...
Excerpted from Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture by Haidee Wasson, published by the University of California Press ...
All the crafts that I’ve practiced in my life I’ve done knowing they are either dead or dying. I have a master’s degree in poetry. I was an investigative journalist at a nonprofit that closed due to ...
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