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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-29-2007 05:59 AM
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...which seems utterly stupid to me, if true. The types of places that have installed aren't likely to be showing repertory programming,
...stupid and very, VERY sad. Not to worry, Scott studios are loath to strike new prints of all but the very top pop titles. So if they won't bite the bullet and spend a couple of grand to strike a new print, you KNOW beyond any reasonable doubt that they will never spend the much higher price tag to author a DCI compliant virtual print for an arthouse, even if per the very unlikely chance they were to actually have a Christie or Barco DCI compliant projector.
And the most sad part of all is that what I see happening is that when film prints of the classics just aren't available any longer because they have just been worn out and not replaced, and the art house just can't spring for a DCI compliant projector, they will resort to a much cheaper, high def/top-of-the-line very UN-DCI compliant preshow variety projector.
Bottom line -- future generations may get to see our film heritage only as good as a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc can reproduce.
I see this happening now. As hard as I try to fight them, when I can't book a 35mm print -- which now happens allot more often that it used to -- the Professors (who should know better) insist with increasing aggressivness, that I "just rent the DVD and show it with the video projector." It gets harder and harder to convince them that they are wrong when they say that running a video is better than the students not seeing it at all. Not necessarily, Professori.
I can give you an example of it happening right now -- the English Department comes to us and wants us to run THE SEARCHERS and TOTAL RECALL for all incoming freshmen at Brooklyn College (why, I don't know....none of my business). Well, forget about THE SEARCHERS....no prints, period. TOTAL RECALL you would think would be a piece of cake. Seems MGM has done some major reorganization and no one over there seems to know where anything is. The Swank booker says he's been trying for a month to get them to find a print; no luck.
So even if we had a DCI compliant projector, what studio is going to get me a hard drive with a DCI-compliant THE SEARCHERS in it? And ask Swank which orgs book licenses to show DVDs? It's not just movie night in the dorm -- even the art houses and museums are booking video. And that will happen more and more often as the libraries inventories slowly deteriorate into oblivion.
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You gotta admit this guy's timing indicates a lack of foresight... 'specially since classics are some of the first product going 100% Digital Cinema (as reported elsewhere on this forum). ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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aren't likely to be showing repertory programming, and the DCI spec is pretty wanting when it comes to older films (no support for variable frame rates, no native support for Academy-ratio films, etc., etc.). Never mind that the cost savings won't be realized on small print runs.
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