[Frameworks] Quo Vadis Celluloid?

[matt's frameworks address]

"the difference between 1) watching a Brakhage film shot on regular 8 and
projected in regular 8 from a beat-up print in a basement cinemateque, and
2) watching a freshly-struck 70mm print of "The Longest Day" in a 'picture
palace' equipped with carbon-arc projection... is greater than the
difference between 1) watching a clean 16mm print of "Cat's Cradle"
projected on an Eiki SSL-OL and 2) watching a BluRay of "Cat's Cradle"
projected on a 3-chip DLP Panasonic at the same image size in the same
auditorium."

i think this is a very strong point, as are others in David's post.  the one
thing I believe needs to be interjected, however, is the rapid evolution of
the HD technologies, and how vastly it has improved in just the past few
years.  the "goats milk vs buttermilk" analogy doesn't hold up because we
are comparing two subjects here that are in constant flux.  "car or horse?"
is a vastly different conversation today than it was in 1920, and "film or
video" is not the same conversation today that it was even ten years ago,
let alone what it will be ten years from now.

buttermilk will never be goats milk, but buttermilk will surely evolve and
improve in the coming years, and may even become preferable to many palates.

-matt

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