Re: EOS [OT] Kodak film Cameras - The End

[Mr. Bill]

The movie industry has already started to switch.  George Lucas & 
Stephen Spielberg have been pushing digital projection standards to try 
to convince theaters to convert from film projection to digital 
projection.  The main driving force is to eliminate having to make 
release prints, which use way more film for the movie industry than the 
original camera footage.  Plus, the technology allows the distributors 
to more tightly control distribution (transmitted via satellite to each 
theater in real-time).  This eliminates the chance for a theater to run 
an "extra showing" that they don't pay the film distributor for.

The first film has already been shot via HDTV.  Did anyone see "The 
Anniversary Party?"  It starred and was directed by Jennifer Jason Leigh 
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254099/).  It was "filmed" entirely in 
HDTV and converted to film for theatrical release.  I don't know how 
many other films have been produced this way as well.

The big roadblock is the number of theaters which can project digital 
images, which for now, are very few.

More:
http://www.hollywoodbyline.homestead.com/IndieDigitalPics.html
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/amia-l/2002/05/msg00160.html
http://216.130.185.104/content/article_4.shtml
Mr. Bill

Jack Casner wrote:

What do you see happening when the movie industry switches from film to
digital?
Jack C.

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