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Topic: "The Master" 70mm London Screening
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 11-05-2012 04:35 AM
quote: Scott Norwood Couldn't the operator have just adjusted the DTS offset during the show?
Or even better, just stopped briefly to correct the lacing.
If the problem was that the projector had been laced up incorrectly, then that would suggest that the operator didn't know the correct way. Again, if that was the fault, then I also wonder if any print damage was done. In order to put enough extra footage between the DTS penthouse and the gate to cause an audible sync fault, that film must have taken quite a detour, possibly over some sharp or non-recessed surfaces.
This is going to become a bigger problem as film projection recedes further into the distance. Just as there are very few people left who can drive a steam locomotive or fly a DC-3 (and almost all of them are based in a small number of museums and heritage venues), within a generation or two there will be very few people left film projection skills, and even fewer with advanced film handling and maintenance/repair skills. Maintaining that skills base is going to be a very real challenge for the cinematheques, museums and rep houses that want to maintain the ability to project film prints into the long term future.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 11-06-2012 07:48 AM
quote: Derek Young I went to a showing yesterday and as i walked in to the foyer there was a note telling patrons that the print has a scratch for the first 20 mins and they can refund you within 20 mins if the scratch on the 70mm film puts you off.
I don't know about putting the customers off, but it will probably put the cinema of doing any more 70mm in the future, and may put distributors off making any 70 mm prints available.
quote: Leo Enticknap This is going to become a bigger problem as film projection recedes further into the distance. Just as there are very few people left who can drive a steam locomotive
There are probably more people who can drive a steam locomotive today then there have been for decades. It's still a very small number compared to the number when steam was in normal service of course.
There does seem to be a renewed interest in older technologies as they are replaced in normal use, traditional letterpress printing is becoming quite popular again, as are the older photographic processes. It may be a very small proportion of the total number of photographs taken, but there are certainly more wet plate photographers around today than there have been for well over a century. It's quite easy to find wet plate courses today, though they seem to be fully subscribed, so it may not be easy to get onto one. The same applies to the Neon sign course which I want to go on, at a time when neon is becoming rapidly replaced by LED for mainstream sign work.
None of them will ever be on anything more than a very small scall in the future, but it's a bigger very small scale than a few years ago.
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