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Topic: 11 Technologies in Danger of Going Extinct
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Tony Stucchio
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 625
From: New Jersey
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted August 10, 2010 06:33 PM
It doesn't matter if it is a movie theater, grocery store, hardware store, deli, sandwich shop, etc. The Mom and Pop run one will be friendlier, better run, and much more fun to frequent.
When I go to Home Depot looking for something, I get sent on a wild goose chase down dozen of aisles, am told "this is not my aisle" several times, or find that the aisle I want is closed as they have that thingamajig loading shelves. Yet I can go to local family-run hardware store (which is a fraction of the size) and get exactly what I want quickly and easily.
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Jose Artiles
Master Film Handler
Posts: 357
From: Spain
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted August 11, 2010 09:44 PM
"I knew many of us (include me) will hate to read this...especially Jose of Spain [Razz]"
Yes dear Winbert,you have all the rigth!!! i hate to read it jajajaj,but lets face the true to alL who things digital cinema is the future.....I SAY NO!!...you ask me why? its easy..because when all cinema were digital including the making of a movie..all digital video,, when all go digital the people never go to a movie theatre again paying a ticket because the picture will looks the same on home than on theatre,2k video proyectors will be easy on home in less than 5 years and when the people note its the same will never pay again,part of the magic to go cinema is the different way to see a movie,nothing of this happend with digital and forget the wonderfull colours of film,,once digital take the place inside the camera...good by beautifull colours..hello same colours same reds and blues and enhanced horrible colour tha look more and more electronic while they try to enhanced to imitate the film look(absurd,,try to imitate..for god sake,,,imitate when i can use real film ppfff),i always say to my job partners that the real cinema will be almost extint as business in 20 years because the business will lost the magic,yesterday i was showing open air "tarzan find his son" and i can asure that the magic of film is what makes the people to stay includind a lot of peolple who keep wonder me at the end of the show that they are amazed because they see "the real thing on real cinema" or "Oh, a film projector,how autentic and true way to see the movie" and i always says to them "as it migth be",once the picture quality will be as cold as a videogame..cold and dead..pure tv projected, the people will lost the interest to see a movie on a big screen because they are accustomed to see all on video like this,video games,football,all on bigscreen and on digital video so as i say once the film will gone the money will go forever too,you will see,in a very few years everybody will can download the movies from the pc for a dollar or a few pounds and the cinema will dissapear as business,then they will try to recover the mass public but will be too late..magic is lost and we,the collectors will have the oportunity to enjoy the real film for our eyes only because the rest of digital viewers dont deserve that pleasure.For my side i will die stuck on my films and projectors shouting with my old old voice to all who try to quit my films from me "FROM MY COLD ,DIE HANDS"
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As Steven Spielberg says....
Nothing beats old school projection. Digital is just an imitation.
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
Posts: 452
From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted March 06, 2011 04:20 PM
It is a shame that film shows will eventually be 'non film'. I have worked in the film business since 1959, firstly as a cinema projectionist, then in the labs, and from the very beginning I was advised to move into a different field of employement as 'films' wouldn't last much longer. Well, it took a while, but it does seem to be happening now. Comments regarding scratches and film damage are amusing, polyester film is indeed very strong, and this is a mixed blessing to the labs, as on the rare occasions that a print comes off the rollers during processing, it will often bend the shafts before the developing machine stops. As for scratches, call me old fashioned, but the blemishes assure me that I am actually watching a film and not an electronic reproduction.
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
Posts: 452
From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted March 07, 2011 02:01 AM
Whatever the rights and wrongs of film v digital, digital will win out because in the long run, after the initial expense, it will be cheap and convenient compared to film. I am steadfastly pro film because I have grown up and worked in it from the start. I remember as a projectionist running the saturday morning kids shows, and the prints, invariably, were in an awful state, with joins throughout and end of reels covered with scratches and many change-over dots flashing up on the screen. This, however was all part of the fun, and no matter how badly beaten these prints were from previous venues, the actual picture quality was sharp and beautifully exposed. Now we are in an age where some young people won't even consider watching a black and white picture, which is a shame, as they are missing a lot. I enjoyed a medium that is now probably considered quite archaic, but I think I got the best part of the deal.
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