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In October, I celebrated my 20th anniversary since I first got involved with cinema and the projection of movies. I can’t remember the exact date that I randomly ended up in a General Meeting of Flix, Loughborough Student Cinema during my … Continued
I was lucky enough to be able to join many others, to celebrate the reopening of the redeveloped Vue West End on the 10th July. The cinema is built on the site of Daly’s Theatre, which was opened on 27 June … Continued
Last night I was lucky enough to watch a documentary entitled ‘The Final Reel’ Documentary at the wonderful Regent Street Cinema as part of the 50th-anniversary celebrations for the Cinema Theatre Association. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/174196220 @thefinalreeldoc
Introduction In 2015, either myself or my deputy editor Vicky Mansfield, posted nearly 2000 news stories to this website, covering a variety of different topics, bringing the total stories available to over 13,000 and means that an average of 5 … Continued
This 12-minute film created by Joseph O. Holmes features clips from 50 different films that take place in a projection booth, from Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock, Jr.” all the way up to Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.
This ‘article’ is not directly related to ‘Cue Dots‘ as in the things which appear just before a reel change, instead it is about a website which I think you should visit. Why do I think you should visit … Continued
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Digital media is everywhere nowadays and this is certainly the case in cinemas where digital projection systems have really taken over in most places. For well over a hundred years projectionists have presented movies to eager audiences on 35mm film, but that era – at least for the major Hollywood distributors – is starting to come to an end. Paramount has already announced that Will Ferrell vehicle Anchorman Two will be the last it distributes in anything other than digital formats and the other big players cannot be far behind a similar move.
Thursday 27th February 2014, I was lucky enough to be in the audience for an evening which saw the world’s first 4K presentation of an Event image001Cinema showing transmitted live into a cinema. The collaboration between the National Theatre Live and Sony Cinema saw the ever popular play “War Horse” captured on Sony F55 cameras at the New London Theatre and broadcast directly to the Curzon Cinema in Chelsea, to an audience which was a mixture of invited industry members and the general public, in 4K. National Theatre Live is of course an initiative by the National Theatre to broadcast live performances onto cinema screens around the world, and is one of the most popular Event Cinema shows. Since its first season, which began in June 2009, over 2 million people have now experienced the work of National Theatre Live in cinemas worldwide.
http://www.sony.co.uk/pro/product/digital-cinema-digital-cinema-projectors/srx-r510p/overview