[Frameworks] 35mm film will be dead by 2015 and News Corp

Wed Nov 16 19:10:51 CST 2011

The comparison to the well-documented rail atrocities committed by GM 
and Firestone is apt. However, that does not stop reality from 
existing. The removal of analog projectors from theaters, via 
strong-arm tactics or not, is something that is happening and cannot 
be stopped by us. It is wise to admit defeat rather than fight an 
unwinnable war. But of course, the mechanisms of cognitive dissonance 
reduction can result in beliefs being more strongly held precisely 
*because of* evidence to the contrary. Skepticism is healthy; denial 
is a defense mechanism that is ultimately maladaptive.

Aaron

At 11/16/2011, you wrote:

>DCI requires that exhibitors moving to the DCI platform must remove 
>35mm projection capabilities from their booth, that is
>in order to be in compliance. It's commercial interests working to 
>advance in short time to the new platform.
>
>Makes me think of what happened in the US with public rail 
>transportation in the US (1920-1950). National City Lines buying up
>trolley and other rail companies and shutting them down to quickly 
>advance the transition to the use of diesel buses for public transportation.
>
>Business can improve when removing alternatives that are viewed as 
>competing with your product. And what a great idea to replace 
>trolleys with stinky, loud and often dangerously driven buses (a bus 
>driver killed four pedestrians in Portland last year, apparently 
>because the driver did not see them in the crosswalk).
>
>Portland, is now re-building the rail infrastructure it tore out 
>years ago. And at an enormous cost.
>
>The upside? It's a good time to pick up Century and Simplex 35mm 
>projectors for your small theater. Set-up a booth to comply with
>FIAF standards and source prints from archives and specialty 
>distributors for small audience public presentation.
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Freya 
><<mailto:freya128 at yahoo.com>freya128 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I'm quite skeptical about all these reports about the death of film 
>we are suddenly seeing. They seem to  frequently turn out to have 
>little substance to them on further examination.
>Aside from which, that last article seems to be more about the death 
>of cinema and the rise of video projection, than 35mm film per se. 
>I'd suggest it's more written from the point of view that the united 
>states is the whole world than first world arrogance per se.
>
>It's interesting to notice that News Corp were implicated in that article too.
>Check out this classic News Corp letter thats doing the rounds at the moment!
>It's got that perfect mix of friendlyness and vaguely threatening 
>going on that News Corp do so well. Sort of "you WILL comply or we 
>will make things very difficult for you!"
>
><http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f16/t000949.html>http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f16/t000949.html
>
>I'm suspecting that many of these recent articles are planted for 
>commercial reasons.
>
>love
>
>Freya
>
>
>
>
>
>--- On Wed, 11/16/11, Alex McCarron 
><<mailto:alex.mccarron at gmail.com>alex.mccarron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>From: Alex McCarron <<mailto:alex.mccarron at gmail.com>alex.mccarron at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Frameworks] MSNBC: "Report: 35mm film will be dead by 2015"
>To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" 
><<mailto:frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
>Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 6:00 PM
>
>That's a hell of a spin. Do they have the money to keep Kodak in 
>business? I'd figure it would be more likely small theaters in India 
>would be snatching up nicer consumer grade projectors from Best Buy 
>Bombay as quality improves and expectations for quality drops and a 
>point of acceptable mediocrity is reached which seems to be the 
>trend for culture of the future.
>
>On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Jay Hudson 
><<http://mc/compose?to=jkh30003@gmail.com>jkh30003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I can't tolerate any more of these reports.  They are generally based
>on first world arrogance.  Little theaters in India don't have to
>money to sufficiently cool digital projectors.   Here it is certainly
>the near future, but there is a wider world out there.
>
>On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM, David Tetzlaff 
><<http://mc/compose?to=djtet53@gmail.com>djtet53 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Citing somethine called "IHS Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence Service"...
> >
> > <http://tinyurl.com/6oz7gl4>http://tinyurl.com/6oz7gl4
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